Cyclosporiasis is on the rise in the US but the information on how to handle the parasite is very contradictory. Literally heard on the radio this morning that in order to kill Cyclospora cayetanensis, you have to boil your produce but the news is saying something else.
Please be safe everyone.
If it was a McDonald’s food borne illness outbreak. Trump would be on top of it. He doesn’t consume fruits and vegetables.
Complete bullshit how crippled the CDC and other programs are now. I think I read awhile back that the CDC put out a blank statement when the cuts hit. That they couldn’t be effective anymore at reporting and tracking outbreaks and just warned people to avoid anything known to cause illnesses like romain lettuce.
Which is fucked they had to admit that even though they want to protect US citizens they can’t, because they are so underfunded.
This isn’t the first fuck around and find out incident and won’t be the last.
there was a ton of respiratory illness every few months after RFK jr stop all reccommended vaccinations/ montiring.
Fruits and vegetables are woke.
but the media as usual completely misses the point…this is transmitted by fecal-oral route, so who is shitting on America’s vegetables?
It always has to do with cow manure. Cow manure is used as fertilizer, but the problem is not the cows, its the quality control and sanitation techniques. While harvesting, during the packing process within the factories (who knows how well those are kept clean) and then during shipping. Quality control went down dramatically after covid (it wasn’t that great to begin with) and that’s why we have been seeing an increase in food born illnesses.
This is one reason why my family and I started growing our own produce. this is to much.
We tried that and now our city says no can’t have garden unless you’re zoned for that. Totally bullshit!
Look into something like an indoor hydroponic garden. There’s some for fairly inexpensive on Amazon and nothing beats homegrown
I set this little guy up to grow lettuce for my birds. It’s got just two pods and no automatic lights and the bubbler turns off with the lights
I’m in the middle of cleaning the big one, 6 or 7 pods, which can grow a surprising amount. It’s got adjustable height and timers for the light
Thank you. I look into this.
Yeah, these states started getting really nippy with that after Covid. Its all control
What shithole doesn’t let you have a garden? I need to never go there.
Same, Im not growing to any kind of scale, but I practice gardening every year.
Growing your own food is an act of revolution.
Dd you save the seeds for next year or just do different crops each year?
It depends. My peas I kept going for a while saving seed, nearly four seasons. Last winter water got into my garden bin, and … the seeds didnt fair well at all, got moldy. So no peas this year
My pumpkins do really well. I dont even save the seed, I just bury the seeds in fall with a bit of pumpkin flesh and they pop back up every year. This method seems to work well with cherry tomatoes too. It like forced volunteers. I encourage volunteers because they honestly seem to do best in my garden.
Im not, uh, methodical about what I am doing, Id probably shock a serious gardener with how I go about it. I do buy starts in the spring usually. I used to start from seed every year, but I really just dont have the space in the house for it right now, it does annoy me. The day my son moves out, his room will be becoming my plant room lol.
So I only plant seeds that can be sown directly outside in spring (like peas) and everything else is starts. Mostly growing potatoes this year. I put some eyed out potatoes I got from the store in the ground, and by god, potatoes are amazing.
I do have some heriloom corn im growing for the first time. Im going to attempt to save its seed proper this year. Every year is a different expierement!
how about you?
We just started this year but my mother and I are experimenting with it. Not from seeds but we got the plants of Basil, roma and cherry tomatoes, one jalapeno plant, 2 bell pepper plants, three sweet potato plants and a cucumber (can’t remember the name of it)
We’ve only harvested one good cucumber so far, and a couple of jalapeno peppers along with the bell peppers, but got alot of cherry tomatoes. Omg the cherries taste amazing.
cherry tomatoes right off the vine! there is nothing so tasty!
lots of variety, love it! good luck in the remainder of the season :)
Thank you! You have a great harvest as well.
And meats?
For where im at, I could keep chicken in a coup but everything else i would have to get it from a butcher. For now, we’re focusing on produce to nail that first