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RickCorey said:$3 per bale ... it must be great to live in the real world!

Our local "farm coo-op" mostly sells cutesy yuppie chatchkas at brain-damaging prices.

If you ask them for the price list of the big bags in the WAREHOUSE, the prices are merely high.

Someone posted $3 bales from Whidbey island (sp?) in January on craigslist........ ( does that help?) They had a 20 bale minimum ( but, that would mean the ferry wouldn't it, and, having less than zero 'knowledge' of what THAT entails................... never mind )

I only looked because I'm curious, the different 'normals', even here in Oregon, fascinate me............. Moved here from South central OR, and in some things, it might as well been the moon .............. first time I ever heard of fillin' out an application to see a 'regular' Dr.... Really? wow

When I first REALLY researched straw bale gardening, I ran across a thread in a North Carolina forum of sorts ( really COOL forum thread LOTS of pictures ) Anyway.............. They were talkin' about the 'different' kinds of straw to use and what NOT to use............. One of those was 'pine straw' ............... I joined so I could ask the question.......... "We have pine trees, pine nuts, pine CONES and I have asked many 'old timers' that have looked at me like I'm crazy, what on earth is pine STRAW? LOL...................... Turns out, there is such a 'thing', used for landscaping............. Who'd'a thunk?