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Tangent thought, but I always wonder why people (my wife) have gardens or chickens when I can purchase 1.5 dozen eggs for $2, get any vegetable any time of year, and a gallon of milk for ~$2.50.
Then I visit Safeway in Maui and a gallon of milk is $9. Most unpackaged foods are 3x the cost. I'd garden like crazy, keep hens and graze cows if I lived in Hawaii. The growing seasons is all the time. I'd have solar and batteries and be "off-grid", and the payback period would be super quick, because electricity is the most expensive in the nation.
Whenever I visit Hawaii, I feel like I've gone back in time about a decade, as if they are where the rest of the country was 10 years ago.
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