if you are interested in farming/raising your own meat, a lot of people will recommend chickens as the first choice. Chickens can be bought for less than $5 and their feed isn't too expensive. Your most expensive initial cost is going to be setting up a coop assuming you don't have a shed or something that can be retrofitted into a coop. Chickens are fairly easy to care for and their feed can be supplemented with food scraps and allowing them foraging time.
But actually, rabbits are even more efficient. But a lot of people are put off by the idea of eating rabbits (which is fair!). Rabbits reproduce regularly, generally create more lbs of meat to feed than chickens, don't require as much space (but should be given as much space as you can give them ofc), and also provide a beautiful and warm pelt if they are dispatched correctly. Rabbit meat is higher in protein but lower in fat compared to chicken as well. I haven't had a chance to try it myself, but I have also been told it is more easily digestible for those with stomach issues (probably because of the lower fat? i know I had issues with digesting animal fats for a while after my gallbladder surgery)
From what I understand from reading books about raising meat rabbits, is that rabbit meat used to be more commonly stocked in grocery stores in America, but PETA/other animal rights groups would frequently protest at these stores until they were basically bullied out of carrying it. I acknowledge that eating rabbits probably isn't for everyone, but imo it is a shame that it isn't more readily available. It feels like how it's treated more like a high mark up luxury meat, when it really shouldn't be.
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in reply to @flowerpower's post:
While 4e D&D had its share of faults, the way it approached class categorization through combat roles (leader/defender/striker/controller) and power sources (arcane/divine/martial/primal/psionic) was innovative and interesting! Once you included the PHB2&3, as well as the single classes included in the Eberron and Forgotten Realms hardcovers, every role/source combination had one or two entries, save for Martial Controller, the ONLY empty type.
my personal experience with 4e is lacking and I may have the roles a bit off in my head but I think a martial controller should be a wrestler or something
It should be noted that by ‘controller’ they more mean ‘crowd control’ than anything else, I think? The way they did the roles was interesting but also odd. Something like Battlemaster or Warlord would have been the best candidate for a Martial Controller, I think, but they used that archetype up as the Martial Leader instead.
Yeah they did some odd stuff that threw off expectations, and that’s part of the edition’s mixed response.
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So the thing alot of people dont get about hydroponics is that the setup isnt actually expensive if you diy the reservoir, one can use bottles, tubs, buckets, anything that'll hold a volume of liquid and protect it from light, the nutrient isnt terribly soendy either if you get the bulk powder.
There is no real reason we should even be doing soil agriculture anymore because whatever blindspots there were in hydroponics in terns of what you can grow and how have been addressed by a multitude of different fertilizer concentrations and different hydroponics arrangements.
For example greens and smaller plants are better to be grown in NFT systems (nutrient film technique) because of the close proximity the plants can be set next to eachother and the low amount of maintanence. One pump can run dozens of plants with the right flow rate, and the right configuration. NFT can be built from cheap pvc or rain gutters cut to size with holes drilled.
Kratky hydroponics is extremely user friendly because its just a deep reservoir that the roots drink from when given light, virtually no maintanence, and no power unless grown indoors (light and airflow).
A common mistake of indoor growers is to not give proper airflow to plants, which effectively hakts its transpiration, not allowing itbto use capillary action to get water or nutrients up to the leaves, causing calcium deficiency and end burn. This can be solved easily by installing a fan to flow over the plants.