A dime once bought you 12 eggs and it was so normal that a saying was created over it
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What's the price now over there?
Like $8 for not poison
It's a stimulus to plant your own chickens
I have had plenty of chickens and farming in my life, I prefer to support locals who do it as well as would.
Yes division of labour using locals for that is great
Many in homesteading think personal freedom is more economical and it usually is not. You pay out the ass for moderate advances in independence. You learn real quick that homesteading worked in the past because there was no economy of scale around you.
True, freedom has its costs. Homesteading becomes another job. Like self-hosting
Freedom means the ability to choose what yout day is like. Go ask a dairy farmer if they have freedom.
True, if you choose to be a dairy farmer it's fine.
They can never leave, they can't take a day off. Cows always come first, even below freezing on Christmas, the cows come first.
They are free to stop and sell the cows, the land. Yet, they don't.
Often it is family land, all they know and no other opportunity exists. Also what happens when every single small independent farmer is forced out of the market? We get dog shit corpo food. This is why it is so important to pay local farmers for good food.
Preach it. My fam did it in the 80s. Living poor is actually quite expensive.
yah. people used to mostly have their own chickens so eggs were extra abundant while same time the currency was still tied to the money.
solution is to buy chickens
The solution is to find the highest quality and most economical local producer and go on about your day producing the most value in your community that you can, which is hopefully more than creating a few dozen eggs a day for yourself.
lol Chicken is the highest quality producer and there is nothing more local than your back yard.
Ill share the eggs chum i dont mind. Ill even give you some chickens and show you how to deal with them. Iswear they will be even cheaper than dime a dozen. Hell you may have extra.