Not so Hassy,

Don't you have about 30 acres with ample water? My wife worked as a child in the family garden, the maim garden was about 5 acres and the house garden was smaller, they grew about 20 different kinds of vegetables, a good permanent water supply from a spring and creek, had no pumps, just watering cans, and 44 gal drums. They had very little money, and 12 kids, living in a 'Homestead' with dirt floors, no running water, a wood stove and no electricity, plenty of wood for the fire. They supplied themselves and other family with produce, they got fruit from the whanau (family) orchard. When a beast was slaughtered, or a wild pig was shot, they got a share, no one staved. They kept a milking cow, chickens. Gathered kai (food) from the bush, eels from the creeks were plentiful, the wife loves smoked eel, and sea food was always plentiful. When the wife is back home, she loves her 'rotten corn' and kina, both an experience for the taste buds. I'll stick to the paua, oysters, mussels, lobsters, raw, cooked or smoked fish and crayfish and other things from the sea, but not kina.

In the Islands did you ever go to a lovo (Maori Hangi), well I've been to a few and the food is sensational, both in quality and quantity.

Inflation is just another form of tax;
When governments expand the money supply by borrowing and spending too much
- But don't receive enough tax to cover that spending.
They screw us over one way or they screw us over another way.

Inflation is the inevitable by-product of greed which can be broken down to mismanagement, incompetence, plain stupidity, lack of foresight, lack of common sense, lack of discipline & above all the removal of merit by the use of the Peter Principle !

Indy,

You astound me, you are simply an economic genius! Why arn't you the Governor of the Reserve Bank, or better still Treasurer of Australia. I know, some horrible "burotoid" found your application and tore it up! I am disgusted!

$18 a dozen: how did America’s eggs get absurdly expensive?
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jan/25/18-a-dozen-how-did-americas-eggs-get-absurdly-expensive

"Attempts to smuggle eggs across the US-Mexico border have surged, US border patrol says, with the agency reporting that the number of egg and poultry seizures rose 108% from 1 October to 31 December."

- Stupid Americans -

That certainly wasn't in SE Queensland Paul.

My experience.
Leaf crops need too many nasty sprays to beat the grubs.

Root crops, can produce but require far too much water pumped to be economical, onions excepted.

Tomatoes OK, particularly cherry type. Corn OK if neighbors cattle don't break in. Strawberries OK

Trees. Apple, apricot peach citrus all require too much nasty chemical to beat the fruit fly.
Even if used, Lorikeets eat apples to hanging cores before half grown, even if netted. Crows & magpie pick holes in green citrus. Every thing attacks Peaches Plumbs & Apricots.
White cockatoos destroy even the vines of passion-fruit
White Mulberries & Brazilian grapes produce so quickly & massively the birds do leave you enough.
Dragon fruit if netted you can get some before the blue faced honey eaters destroy them.
The wild dogs have destroyed most edible game, leaving only kangaroos & said neighbors cattle to shoot, not really allowed.
I'm not yet ready to eat my dogs, cats or horses.

With the river 450 meters down the paddock & 24 meters below the plain, [50 meters below the house paddock], pumping water is expensive. Supermarket fruit & Veg is much cheaper, if not as tasty.