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Did You Know You Can Buy Seeds With Foodstamps?!

 
Mrs. Smith
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Did You Know You Can Buy Seeds With Foodstamps?!
My current work trade situation is coming to an end and my new one comes with housing and utilities covered but no food or cash. So, I just swallowed my pride and applied for foodstamps to hold me over until I can get some cash flow and my new garden going.

The intake worker was the one that told me when I said I was moving to a place with a garden.

Too cool!
"Imagination is more important than knowledge" - Albert Einstein

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Is your AV really you? Are ya really nekkid there?
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Is your AV really you? Are ya really nekkid there?
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 673477

putin
But if at the Church they would give us some ale,
And a pleasant fire our souls to regale,
We'd sing and we'd pray all the live-long day,
And never once wish from the Church to stray.
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Is your AV really you? Are ya really nekkid there?
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LOL! Yes but from 1982
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can we help
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can we help
 Quoting: laketrash


Planting the garden? Might be a long commute unless you live on Kauai. :)
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Is your AV really you? Are ya really nekkid there?
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LOL! Yes but from 1982
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you were cute in 82 but how much do you weigh now?
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02/01/2011 05:15 PM
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Talk to your intake again. In certain situations, you can also use foodstamps to buy gardening tools and fishing supplies.
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02/01/2011 05:44 PM
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Have you priced the seeds lately? I bought mine yesterday and it was over $400 - many packets that I remembered purchasing for just over a dollar per packet were over $3 per packet. Has anyone else noticed this or do I just have a bad memory - it didn't seem nearly so high last year. I purchased online from Burpee.
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02/01/2011 05:50 PM
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Have you priced the seeds lately? I bought mine yesterday and it was over $400 - many packets that I remembered purchasing for just over a dollar per packet were over $3 per packet. Has anyone else noticed this or do I just have a bad memory - it didn't seem nearly so high last year. I purchased online from Burpee.
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Try R.H. Sumway. I've purchased there for 30 years. Good seed too!
hf
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Re: Did You Know You Can Buy Seeds With Foodstamps?!
Have you priced the seeds lately? I bought mine yesterday and it was over $400 - many packets that I remembered purchasing for just over a dollar per packet were over $3 per packet. Has anyone else noticed this or do I just have a bad memory - it didn't seem nearly so high last year. I purchased online from Burpee.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1247957

Try R.H. Sumway. I've purchased there for 30 years. Good seed too!
hf
 Quoting: Pea Vine

OOPS! R.H. Shumway
"I'm still here, you bastards!"...Papillion
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Have you priced the seeds lately? I bought mine yesterday and it was over $400 - many packets that I remembered purchasing for just over a dollar per packet were over $3 per packet. Has anyone else noticed this or do I just have a bad memory - it didn't seem nearly so high last year. I purchased online from Burpee.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1247957

Try R.H. Sumway. I've purchased there for 30 years. Good seed too!
hf
 Quoting: Pea Vine

OOPS! R.H. Shumway
 Quoting: Pea Vine


Thanks for the tip, I'll check them out, I try to buy heirloom or certified organic - hope they have them - good luck with your seeds, I'm about ready to start mine inside as soon as they all arrive - getting ready. I am always so excited about it this time of year and then by June when I'm spending four hours a day to pick beans or peas, I'm thinking "Why did I plant this much?" - but I am always ready to do it all again the next year.
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Is your AV really you? Are ya really nekkid there?
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 673477


LOL! Yes but from 1982
 Quoting: Mrs. Smith


you were cute in 82 but how much do you weigh now?
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1115368


Really now! That's not a question you should ever ask a lady!

I will say, that at almost 51, I still look good in a bikini. ;)
"Imagination is more important than knowledge" - Albert Einstein

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Re: Did You Know You Can Buy Seeds With Foodstamps?!
Talk to your intake again. In certain situations, you can also use foodstamps to buy gardening tools and fishing supplies.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1224924


Really?!

I must say that I found it refreshingly enlightened for a government program to actually assist people in becoming self sufficiant rather than dependent.
"Imagination is more important than knowledge" - Albert Einstein

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02/01/2011 07:10 PM
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i have an idea to get you some extra cash
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i ll have a packet of beanstalks,would you take my cow instead of a stampafro
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seeds?? I heard the other day u could use them in strip joints.
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seeds?? I heard the other day u could use them in strip joints.
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yeah i like throwing yeast packets in strippers g-strings
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So your about 21 in the photo?
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02/01/2011 07:16 PM
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Is your AV really you? Are ya really nekkid there?
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LOL! Yes but from 1982
 Quoting: Mrs. Smith

Move ya feet a bit there would ya hiding
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02/01/2011 07:32 PM
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Re: Did You Know You Can Buy Seeds With Foodstamps?!
I was thinking about going to a bulk food store soon. Can you use food stamps for bulk foods?
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Yes. Did you know in order to qualify for food stamps you have to drive a BMW, but can only bring in 4000.00 / yr in order to qualify? Same goes with low income housing. Believe me I tried both especially while unemployed. I didnt.
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I was thinking about going to a bulk food store soon. Can you use food stamps for bulk foods?
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Good question. I remember reading a news story last year that Costco was going to start accepting EBT. Will have to check that out.

I know there are a lot of others out there that have had to apply in this economy and since we're not the welfare types, buying in bulk, purchasing seeds etc., is the best way to make the most out of the situation and use it to become more self sufficient.
"Imagination is more important than knowledge" - Albert Einstein

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I was thinking about going to a bulk food store soon. Can you use food stamps for bulk foods?
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1252552



Good question. I remember reading a news story last year that Costco was going to start accepting EBT. Will have to check that out.

I know there are a lot of others out there that have had to apply in this economy and since we're not the welfare types, buying in bulk, purchasing seeds etc., is the best way to make the most out of the situation and use it to become more self sufficient.
 Quoting: Mrs. Smith


Mrs. Smith, If you DO order Shumways catalogue, please pay attention to the notations for heirloom varieties. These, in my opinion are the ultimate. Particularley the tomatoes and green beans. You'll be well pleased with the majority of the purchases you might make. If you take a cutting from some of the tomatoes, plant them in a pot with a sterile potting soil and fertilize, you'll get tomatoes at Christmas! My bonifides are 30+ years of gardening and a sincere wish to help fellow gardeners. I'm going to send this to you in a PM. Only to assure you see it. No offence intended.
Best wishes,
Peavine
hf
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02/01/2011 11:08 PM
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Re: Did You Know You Can Buy Seeds With Foodstamps?!
My current work trade situation is coming to an end and my new one comes with housing and utilities covered but no food or cash. So, I just swallowed my pride and applied for foodstamps to hold me over until I can get some cash flow and my new garden going.

The intake worker was the one that told me when I said I was moving to a place with a garden.

Too cool!
 Quoting: Mrs. Smith


you should get some cotton seeds! then spend a couple of days planting them, then sit around all summer and wait for them to grow. then spend a few days in the autumn picking the cotton balls. then sell the coton--it's very valuable going for around $170 per pound!

Price: [link to www.cotton.org]

then, complain that this work is too hard and invite some hidious bearded small hat wearing liberals to come organize demonstrations on your behalf. then burn down a major thriving city like detroit. then have legislation passed giving you jobs you are unsuited for ahead of white people. then don't even bother to work those jobs. then just live in ghettos and committ endless violent crimes vs actully picking planting and picking valuable cotton. oh, yeah, one last thing, get a brand new escalade and complain about how whitey "be keepin'" you down.

(note: the foregoing was only a parody. no-one would actually ever do those things in real life.)

:-)
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Re: Did You Know You Can Buy Seeds With Foodstamps?!
Purchase Food With Seeds Inside


Tomato
Potato
Melon
Pumpkin
Cucumber
Watermelon
Pineapple Tops
Squash
Beans
Bell Peppers
Garlic



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How to Purchase Seeds With Food Stamps
Food Purchased At Local Market With SNAP/EBT/Food Stamps


Corn (GMO)

Melon
Cantaloupe, Honey Dew, Crenshaw, Watermelon, Hami
Tomato (GMO?)
Beans
Lima, Kidney, Black, Pole, Red
Peas


Chili, Jalapeño, Anaheim Pepper
Red, Green Bell Peppers
Sunflower seeds
Potato, Sweet Potato, Yam Mango
Squash, Spaghetti Squash, Pumpkin, Acorn Squash, Zucchini, Butternut, Pattypan (flying saucer) Papaya
Cucumber Pear
Avocado Orange, tangerine, lemon
Eggplant, Japanese Eggplant Apple
grape
Garlic Strawberry, boysenberry, blueberry
Artichoke cherry
kiwi
Pineapple tops

SansSeeds
IceBerg Lettuce, Carrots, Broccoli, Cauliflower,
Red Leaf Lettuce, Romaine Lettuce, Butter Leaf Lettuce, Cabbage
Sc
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08/18/2013 06:36 AM
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Open the damn plant/fruit/vegetable and remove the seeds geniiuussess
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08/18/2013 06:39 AM
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Households CAN use SNAP benefits to buy:
[link to www.fns.usda.gov]
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Open the damn plant/fruit/vegetable and remove the seeds geniiuussess
 Quoting: Sc 45339823


Uhhh you do realize foods that are non heirloom varieties do not reproduce dont you???Most everything is grown using hybrid seed now.





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