06-13-2016, 11:50 AM
quote:I have lived there, I currently reside on the mainland.
Originally posted by Mimosa
Aloha Dave - We get it - where you live over on the continent food is cheaper .
This is an island - 95% of food items are shipped in and taxed every step of the process - so your taters at .69 cents a Lb on average here are $1.29 a Lb
A gallon of milk from america is on sale 5.99$ a gallon .
Do you have rat lungworm to contend with in your fresh salad as we do here or leptospirosis (sp?)
The health Dept rules and regs are very stringent here and for good reason.It is the sub tropics and food borne illnesses are a threat to the entire populace .
The USDA has even more strict rules here than where you reside .
So does the DOH .
One of the good things here is a person on SNAP can purchase seeds for veg and fruit tree's to raise their own fruit tree's and veg gardens .
Until you actually live here Aloha Dave we understand fully that foods are cheaper where you live than where we here on Hawaii the Island live .
Mrs . Mimosa
The fact is, more people can make a better profit selling flowers than they can by farming food.
Food is shipped to me, the same way it is shipped to you and much of it comes from tropical South America.
What I suggested was growing more on the island, where many costs could be removed from the cycle of taxation, middle men taking a cut and transportation costs.
The whole buying seeds to plant fruit trees sounds unusual when you can get the pits for free after you consume the fruit
Might be better to sell small saplings!
