For food, you may like to try growing blueberries. They grow very large in the South. I do not know what "SLN" is, but I recommend buying plants here. If you live in North Georgia try Johnson's fruit. They are not cheap, but they are good and you will have good plants that will grow and feed you well. Nanking Cherry (I have bought some on eBay very inexpensively as tiny plants, they grow fairly quickly). Elderberry Aronia: try Viking, it's 6' tall where as nero is only 4' tall Serviceberry mulberry are good however they are weedy as all get out and you could end up with a forest that you and your neighbors do not want. Chicksaw and American plums will do you very well Flowering quince shrubs - they can get to 10' tall and will fruit Goumi Hazelnuts Washington and Cockspur Hawthorn (although my washington hawthorn died very quickly as bugs LOVED it) pineapple guava (depending on where you live) Pomegranite (depending on where you live) If you are in the N. GA mountains I think you could probably do very fine with currant bushes too GGG

I am just one person but am a vegan and so everything I eat the wormies can eat. I put my stuff through a food processor and can fill two quart size mason jars a week. I put those jars in the fridge and by the time the wormies get it the stuff is about two to three weeks old so they scarf it up. Currently my bin has almost two pounds of worms in it so they're not quite eating the two jars a week, but they're getting close. I have found that it really doesn't take that much time and effort to run everything through the processor, plus it takes up so little space like that. And I never have to worry about some one mistaking it for actual food just from the way it looks. I do gather scraps during the week in a container in the fridge and process that stuff maybe once or twice during the week.

We just returned yesterday, from a few days in Charleston, celebrating our 50th wedding anniversary. Love that area! I always manage to go to Rue de Jean for their mussels and frisee lyonnaise salad....lunch time...it's more affordable than dinner, and a real treat for me. If you don't mind driving a good bit and like down home cooking...there's a little run-down looking restaurant on Hwy 17 out of Mt. Pleasant going north toward Georgetown, must be about 15 miles or so, on the left, you might like. Good prices, plenty of seafood and a ton of side dishes. Their desserts are homemade; I've seen "mammaw" carrying in homemade cakes on a dome covered plate, numerous times, although I'm never able to eat dessert. DH and I ordered fried shrimp from the seniors menu, I think it was $8.95 and I counted 12 shrimp. One side was included and I ordered cole slaw, extra. Certainly good on the tummy and the budget as well. (Bad on the hips, though)LOL We also found a new little French Bakery on John St. just a couple of doors from Rue de Jean restaurant. They have only been open 5 weeks, so they said. Enjoy your vacation! I have to say I'm partial to Charleston but I love Savannah too. jude

No one can tell if this is excessive unless the capacity of the furnace is known and the fuel use is known. You can judge how much fuel is being used by observation of your gas meter or how much the furnace is actually running and knowing the capacity. Honestly, a gallon or more a day does not seem like very much to me. Is this a lot more than last heating season?