[nmnita]

Originally Posted by Mems

Yeah, I agree. I guess I could ask the PETA folks to come get 'em for me. Do you think they would???? We could also use the target practice though....the kids run too fast nowadays. I hunted deer with my dad when I was young, but never shot a skunk. I was thinking I could pay the neighbors to take care of the problem...that way the stench will probably be gone pretty much by the time I make a visit. This has gone way off the subject of small farmin, huh?

Heck PETA will take your cockroaches. They would rather save bugs then humans. I wonder if they ever have flowers in their house? If they do, I wonder if they realize some poor bee has just been deprived of his dinner. Pick the flowers, bring the pollen inside. Poor little bees...

[nmnita]

Originally Posted by westd27

I want to start my own small produce farm somwhere in southern Arkansas. Is there a lot of that in that part of the state? We want to live in a town where there are nice friendly Christian people with conservative values. A nearby farmers market or other place to sell crops and produce is certainly a big plus. What would be a good place to look with fairly inexpensive yet decent land for farming? I ain't lookin for nothin fancy, just a good honest decent place to live and work. Any input would be helpful. Thanks........

Small town farming, I don't care where you do it, north, south, east or west, I really respect how hard these family farmers work to make a buck. Living here in AR, seeing the farmers markets, the road side stands and actually getting my canning pickles from a local, family farmer, I realize how much time and energy they devote to the land. BTW, finding pickling cukes was a challenge in itself.

Nita

[luvarkansas]

Originally Posted by nmnita

Heck PETA will take your cockroaches. They would rather save bugs then humans. I wonder if they ever have flowers in their house? If they do, I wonder if they realize some poor bee has just been deprived of his dinner. Pick the flowers, bring the pollen inside. Poor little bees...

LOL! Good one! I saw one on Geraldo years ago, and Geraldo asked them if it was wrong to swat mosquitoes. The idiot actually seemed to think that was wrong!

[Nomadicus]

I've got plans to once again raise tomatoes in the ozarks for supplemental retirement income. Either in MO or N AR. Now PETA will just have to get over the bugs I'm gonna kill. It's survial of the fit and I don't plan on losing...I don't mess with lady bugs and such but those big tomato horn worms will meet a swift demise...

[nmnita]

Originally Posted by Nomadicus

I've got plans to once again raise tomatoes in the ozarks for supplemental retirement income. Either in MO or N AR. Now PETA will just have to get over the bugs I'm gonna kill. It's survial of the fit and I don't plan on losing...I don't mess with lady bugs and such but those big tomato horn worms will meet a swift demise...

so true, living in NM I had a pretty healthy garden, if I let PETA control my gardening, the tomatoes would have surcomed to those ugly green creatures and my squash the over powering squash bugs. I did loose lots of squash to them, but normally toward the end of the season. It was a blessing as hubby was about to kick me out of the kitchen if I served squash of any kind one more time, my neighbors would hide when they saw me coming to the door with my hands full and the people at church thought I was donating squash as a form of paying our pledge....

[Nomadicus]

Never met a squash I didn't like...