Is homegrown cheaper? A look at some homestead records. (meat)

Home-raised meat is not cheaper than meat from the grocery store if the home-raised meat is compared to the cheapest substitute. However, home-raised meat is much cheaper if compared to meat of the same quality. Turkey meat is an especially good value.

On Thanksgiving in 1984 my husband and I moved onto a half acre with a little house, a shed, and a goat proof corral, on a dirt road outside Escondido, California. By spring we had a garden, laying hens from a neighbor, a goat kid, a bred ewe, and great plans. My mother-in-law gave us a homestead warming present of Carla Emery's O