http://www.eattheyard.com/2009/08/13/couldnt-stone-the-rabbit/ A novice's attempt to get 15 percent of his food from his suburban fifth acre Tue, 17 Aug 2010 01:27:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.eattheyard.com/2009/08/13/couldnt-stone-the-rabbit/comment-page-1/#comment-22 Jason Tue, 15 Sep 2009 18:59:49 +0000 http://eattheyard.wordpress.com/?p=14#comment-22 Yeah — desperate for calories, I've considered the rabbits. They're fattened on my vegetables, anyway, so it would be a way to get some of those lost calories back. Add a little omnivorousness to my herbivorous spread. Yeah — desperate for calories, I’ve considered the rabbits. They’re fattened on my vegetables, anyway, so it would be a way to get some of those lost calories back. Add a little omnivorousness to my herbivorous spread.

]]> http://www.eattheyard.com/2009/08/13/couldnt-stone-the-rabbit/comment-page-1/#comment-21 Mike Crolene Tue, 15 Sep 2009 09:01:32 +0000 http://eattheyard.wordpress.com/?p=14#comment-21 So my father was telling me about his and my mother's first foray into sustainable living. My parents were living on a ten acre piece of land in Oregon while starting a natural health food store in Eugene. They had a garden that they put a lot of labor into, and when they saw varmints nibbling at their crops my father shot them. Not to dishonor the lives of the little critters, and also they were dirt-poor, they cooked up Varmint du-Jour. The way he saw it, it was either the rabbits or his family. While this may be of little use in a suburban environment, you might consider it next time you come upon an interloper. Remember if you cook up a rabbit you caught, it counts as calories from the garden. Think of it as growing bait. So my father was telling me about his and my mother’s first foray into sustainable living. My parents were living on a ten acre piece of land in Oregon while starting a natural health food store in Eugene. They had a garden that they put a lot of labor into, and when they saw varmints nibbling at their crops my father shot them. Not to dishonor the lives of the little critters, and also they were dirt-poor, they cooked up Varmint du-Jour. The way he saw it, it was either the rabbits or his family. While this may be of little use in a suburban environment, you might consider it next time you come upon an interloper. Remember if you cook up a rabbit you caught, it counts as calories from the garden. Think of it as growing bait.

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