“I’ve read articles about growing beets for sugar, but beets are a cold weather crop, something that, other than the last few days, we just don’t have much of here.
That doesn’t mean we cannot grow them, they just don’t do as well as other options that perform the same end result, making a home grown sweetener of some sort. Other options for producing my own sweetener that would work here include bees for honey, a natural superfood I could grow in my own yard.
And what better way to get sugar than grow sugarcane myself? It seems that sugarcane is so prevalent in my area of the world, you could almost drive any back road and snag enough to get you buy from cane growing along the canals.
It has escaped cultivation, naturalized, and is now fairly common along ditches and canals here…”
