Glory Quilts

Urban Homesteading...

I am not really urban homesteading (if I understand that term). What I AM doing is having trouble adjusting to NOT being in the country.

One of the moneysaving measures we have adopted here in town is not having a deep freezer. Mine was huge, and I am sure it cost more to run than I ever saved in grocery expenses. But the freezer compartment of our brand new refrigerator is so small! A friend gave me a bag of peppers yesterday, and I just don't know what to do with them! I guess we eat them right away or throw them out. I can only make two trays of ice, and we go through that faster than we can freeze it. It will get better as I use up  the remains of what used to be in the deep freeze - the bags of melon, pumpkin, applesauce, tomato paste, mashed banana, grape juice, cranberries... it just takes some adaptation. I need to plan my menus and shopping very carefully so I don't run out of space in there.

One major blessing here is that we have a DUMPSTER! We share it with the church and the daycare center, but we can fill it up every week! That is good, because we sure have a lot of trash now. In the country, I fed scraps to the animals (especially the chickens, who will eat anything). I had a compost pile for organic material. I burned anything burnable. We recycled cans and bottles. In the end, we had very little "real" trash to dispose of. I know  there is a recycling program here - I just need to find out about it and figure out a place to keep the box between pickups.