Cassie, your apple level should be over 9000. I keep pulling through the site and the basic information that you've shared with me isn't to be found! I can't even find a newbie guide. I'm gathering that this is all a cultural and community thing, but it's hard to grow stuff if the tenderfoot's don't know how to start getting plugged in.
Would you be a dear, and advise how I can start earning apples so that I can get into the cider press? The forum portions that you let me know I can post to already aren't anything special - I can talk politics and philosophy with folks at the bar - I'm here for permaculture meat and not general discussion milk. The site doesn't make it clear as to how I can begin the process of "getting in" to know folks and exchange ideas.
Also, if this apple thing were more open, as a prior service member I wouldn't give you an apple, I'd give you the fruit cocktail MRE pouch. It lasts longer, it trades better (MRE chow is either boss, or toss - so you'd have a major barter value for your side), and you might even get a sliver of cherry in your pouch! I should grant you full disclosure and state that I do not know for certain that there are cherry slivers in the MRE pouches (of my time), when I got to eat them it was zero-dark-thirty, in the dark, and the mission was pressing so you didn't eat the pouch contents as much as you cut a corner of the bag and sucked it down while you had a second. On a tangent, vegetarian MRE's are generally preferable over all others because they are more "wet", so you can suck those out of the bag and not need as much water to drink to pass your bagged meal. More tangent, Chicken Cavatelli MRE is the single best entrée I ever encountered - I'd actually save the entrée and heater from missions to actually warm and enjoy on my base time. More also, Olive Garden is not an authentic Itallian restaurant, because after my service, the first time I went there they told me the do not serve chicken cavatelli, nor do they know what it is. Lastly, I know it's not real cheese because the pouch calls it cheese spread, but the bacon cheddar cheese spread is still something I crave to this day from time to time. Funny how blood and guts and endless nights can make you crave some crap you know isn't really food, when you're wanting to get into sustainable food. At least there isn't Government issued bacon-cheese spread substitute for me to get hooked on in the way there is methadone for heroin.
