"National Security" Gardens: An Everyman's Revolution!
I've realized for some time now that no matter what's going to happen in the future we are going to need good food, and we also are going to need to be able to have a community that is well fed. I've for some time now also realized that MOST of the food offered to and consumed by America is what I call "Corporate Food" and is not only bad for you, but it is one of the major contributors to the steady rise in things like heart-disease and certain diabetes! Needless to say, it's been a goal of mine to learn about "organic" food (read: real food) and how to get me some!
Well, recently Bill Moyers had a guest on his show, Michael Pollan, who I'd never heard of but who blew my mind! With the threats of Peak Oil, economic instability, and -ahem-, terrorist attacks, it only makes sense that people, everyone, every town and every community, has open access to a steady and sustainable food supply! When the "whole sh*t house goes up in flames" (to quote my uncle Morrison) then the people who have viable seed and garden beds will be the new kings of the land!!!
Anyway, I'm rambling, but go ahead and watch that interview between Pollan and Moyers by following the link below. Then, I've linked to some companies/initiatives that I found through Pollan and also on my own. A few videos and some other assorted links, it's enough to encourage and inspire you into turning at least part of your wasteful, pointless grass yard into beautiful, natural, usable food product!!!
Bill Moyers interviews Michael Pollan LinK
HOMEGROWN REVOLUTION - Radical Change Taking Root
Path To Freedom - Urban Homesteading YouTube Channel
Growing Power Training Vid sampler(Very Good!!!)
Urban Permaculture Strategies Pt. 1
PERMACULTURE & PEAK OIL: Beyond 'Sustainability'
Food Not Lawns!!!
We've always gardened
because the home-grown stuff just tastes so much better.
All the rest of the benefits that go with were secondary (if not unknown) to us until somewhat recently.
much more to do
..some efforts we've made, but we could do more. here are a few to date:
red romaine
carrots
onions
venison from land
round kumquat marmolade
loquat marmolade
dried and frozen asian persimmon (from sold orchard up the street)
water cistern
one solar panel that is for emergency use
purchased but near empty diesel/biodiesel/grease tank
2 months of food
our main goal is to have more food storage but currently we're working on making space for it!
please post yours to share in getting the brain juices flowing....
thats my wife's and I resolution!
I will have the garden and she will can the food!
We have never done that before, but we both want to learn a new skill!
I'm going to start a gardening club in my area...
Right now I've started a few large pots of veggies and we're lucky down here in southwest texas that we get lots of sun, even though it can get chilly some days but the sun and the humidity inside my small greenhouse has my plants flourishing. I'd like to get some people together so we can all help each other make greenhouses too. It's so much cheaper than buying a kit.
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Yes!
That's really cool to hear that you're starting a club!!! Good luck, here's a couple resources I've found recently. . .
~$50 Greenhouse:
http://doorgarden.com/10/...
Vertical Gardens:
http://www.no-dig-vegetab...
Community Gardens:
http://communitygarden.or...
Let me right now inspire you
Let me right now inspire you to start a back-yard, edible gardening club! Why not? Let us all supplement as much of our diet as we can with REAL food as opposed to "Corporate" food!!!
Great post!
I will add these guys to the link list... Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds:
http://www.rareseeds.com
They had a booth at the Rally for the Republic and they were REALLY nice people!
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I like this guys idea.
Cultivating a Suburban Foodshed
7:30 to 10:45
Basically, his idea is for the neighborhood to get involed in growing different foods or people taking up different tasks that suit them and their properties instead of one person trying to do everything on his own. Division of labor.
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I see nothing
Having realitivity to gardening on that site.
Besides vegetables won't grow in the dark haha.
It's just spam,
which you can't grow in any kind of garden.
Please, don't feed the trolls.
~jaq
What about "Liberty Gardens"?
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I know a good post when I
I know a good post when I see it ....BUMPED...so our kids MIGHT eat if U get off your ....and do something that requires some sacrafice, planning, and motivation.
Vertical Hydroponics
Google it. Initial setup is somewhat expensive, but the result is reusable for years and years.
Also, google "Homemade Self-Contained Gardening Systems" to get a system that replicates the "Earthbox" but at a tiny fraction of the cost.
Both of these are revolutionary systems that produce tremendous yields for land area. I'm going to have a lot of fun with these and some other experiments next year!
~jaq
Yeah that stuff isn't bad
Yeah that stuff isn't bad but, to be perfectly honest, I post this with the idea in mind that we might not exactly have the full availability of power that we do now. . .no fear mongering, but getting ready for some calamitous event is a good meme to spread right now anyway for the simple fact that we rely to heavily on technology! Anyways, something like this I would love to do right now but unfortunately are not able to, wouldn't it be great to just go in the basement grow room and pick breakfast?
I'm in Southern California
So I can grow year'round.This past spring was my first garden EVER...My back-yard is about 30 x 50 ft
I built 2 - 8x8 raised beds and one loooooooong
4 x 40 ft dug out in ground bed. The raised beds contain ONLY planting mix and fertilizers($500)
(no native soil)and are excellent producers.
Last season I grew 10 serrano pepper plants,
6 watermellon plants which grew 20 feet long each and produced about 40 large mellons total ,
15 potato plants producing about 80 potatos total,
10 red onions,10 white onions ,6 roma tomato plants,
scattered celantro plants,Hundreds of 18 inch long cucumbers,hundreds of snap beans, 8 corn plants,
and 10 bellpepper plants...All did GREAT except for the onions,that were grown in the ground from seed in(dirt ,potting mix/fertilizer)
Now the winter crops are in the ground and producing - 20 lettuce ,16 cabbage(Giant heads),
10 strawberry plants, hundreds of carrots...
(not growing very fast yet)
several varieties of celery ,broccoli (HUGE HEADS and great tasting) ,more pole beans,red and white onions (from onion sets this time) and doing GREAT.
The serranos have been flowering and producing NONSTOP since MAY!!! I can't wait for spring to figure out what will be the next crop!
I let some of the summer celantro plants bolt to seed and then spread them all over the gardens...they have been growing everywhere like weeds...amazing.(we LOVE making home-made salsa)
I would never have started a garden ...
IF NOT FOR THIS SITE!
Now I'm addicted for life.
The way my Gold and silver Metals have
been doing Lately,
I may have to change my name to ...Vegetable_Mulisha...haha
My thanks and respect go out to all you
Dr. Green Thumbs out there.
That's awesome!
Luckily we have a good landlord and a yard that would look better with a garden than the ugly mess that it was. I've figured the best way to shape it up and fill it with nutrients and easiest..was to do lasagna layering in time for spring. Right now I have a portable greenhouse and since we get lots of sunshine the daytime really creates some good humidity even though at night it gets chilly 25-30. So far only a few of my plants seem sensitive to the cold, however i think I need a bigger greenhouse and then maybe stick a heater in it for the chilly nights. I found a meetup that gets together to talk about gardening i can't wait to learn how to get more adept at it. Another good organic seed site is Seeds of Change. They have some pretty good pics on theirs. I hope to have plants that will provide all our nutrients, protein, calcium, fiber, vitamins A, D, C. And since growing hemp is illegal, right now i have to settle for buying it and sprinkling on my food. Dang that stuff really cleans you out, but it does taste good and 11 grams of protein per serving! globalhempstore.com.
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Way to go!
Nothing like a little food security.
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My 2 cents worth-
With the train-wreck of genetically modified seeds and crops entering the food chain, it's a much better way to be sure you get clean, uncorrupted food. Don't forget to use non-hybrid, or heirloom seeds. My entry for the link list is National Center for Home Food Preservation
If you have not much sun and "boulders"....
that is very rocky soil with too many trees like I have.....then you go for something like this: http://aerogrow.com/
Great article....am very aware of the issues discussed but for those who cannot grow outside, the above link may prove to be an answer for them.
There's also some great info on organic gardening INDOORS...
http://homeharvest.com/ta...
I have tomatoes growing in my
Aero Grow right now - will plant lettuce this weekend. They're great.
I haven't bought one yet....
As it seems that after you buy all the things in order to use it, it is rather pricey. I also want to know if I can reuse those seed pellets and put my own seeds in, as it seems quite expensive to purchase the seed systems.
It IS pricey
Much too much so. You can make much larger aero grow environments from an aquarium pump, rubbermaid boxes, and other sundries.
~jaq
Is there somewhere with instructions...
for this? I still have to do some more research on different ideas for indoors....
Youtube has good ones
You'll probably have to watch the how to grow weed ones to get the really innovative ideas.
You can get seedling grow lights
and larger ones for older plants that cover a lot more area and more plants for less money.
Great topic, Sancho
Again one of your "empowerment" threads I very much appreciate.
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Thanks for the links. I have a feeling these posts will become very important in the future. I'm keeping them all bookmarked.
Your Urban Permaculture strategies link is a part of Bill Mollison's Global Gardener video. Parts 3 and 4 show a planned community in Davis California I think you will enjoy watching. They are located under the "Urban" heading of my Global Gardener post.
Read "Animal, Vegetable, Miracle" by Barbara Kingsolver
I try to boycot corp. farming as much as possible. Part of being "awake" is realizing where your food comes from. This is a lifestyle change, not just a depression panic. Once it's over you don't stop doing it. Real food doesn't come in styrofoam wrapping. Once you have worked all summer in a garden or shed a tear over killing a chicken you will NEVER carelessly throw it in the garbage.
MICHAEL!!
MICHAEL!!
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A great magazine is "mother earth news"-everything from growing chickens to canning explained
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Thanks so much for posting this
I'm already getting seed catalogs and am planning next year's garden.
Get your
canning jars now Folks.
Lids & rings
The jars and the rings are reusable the lids aren't. Stock up enough lids to last many years.
Thank you Dr. Paul for making me act on what I already knew was right.
Dehydrate
and vacuum pack with a mason jar sealer... canning lids are completely reusable, no heat.
Great thread
bookmarked and bumped for others to see.
thank you for these great links.
It's clear we need to re-shape our lives from the roots up, so to speak.
If it becomes too prevelent...
..it will be made illegal.
Did you know that you may not, by law, capture rainwater or run-off for your own purposes? It floored me when I read that one....
I may not know the truth, but I know when I'm being lied to...
Water rights depend on the state.
Just found out the details on our NV rights - when the Paiutes and the US Government accidentally included us on a suit (temporarily).
In NV, since we weren't claiming any specific rights, we were entitled to a "domestic well" plus catchment of anything that fell on the land (but not anything that flowed over it - which would require something additional).
"Domestic well" is for household as of about early 1800s, on the high desert where rain is effectively non-existent: Water for house and outbuildings. Drinking, washing, garden, landscaping, domestic animals (dogs, horses ("engines" for tractor/car/truck equivalent),, milk cow, few head cattle or sheep, chickens... Comes to two acre-feet per year - about 1 1/4 gal/minute 24/7/365. Subdivide and can drill a second well for another 2 acre-feet.
That would handle a garden, small orchard, and other food-growing for a small family - which is what it was intended to do.
Irrigated factory farm would require additional water rights.
In Texas, rainwater catchment is encouraged by the state.
There are even special programs to teach people rainwater harvesting.
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Is this state specific?
Is this state specific? I've never heard this, is it on the books and verifiable? More please. . .;-D
I like gardening, but sustaining yourself from one, I dunno
I grow about a 1/4 acre garden every year and have resorted to mysteriously leaving bags of veggies on neighbor's porches. Gardening is not easy and most of what you grow gets messed up somehow. There is no shortage at harvest, but no great abundance either. I encourage everyone to grow some food. Not because its the neo-hippie thing to do, but because it's cool to eat what you grow for a few months.
Mike, learn to can and instead of feeding the neighbors feed you
I grow/raise/hunt/fish/butcher about 70% of what me my wife and son eats at home in a year. We aren't going out to eat much at all anymore, so I am planning on growing/raising more this coming year. If you have a 1/4 acre to garden with, plant you a cover crop this winter, even if you only get an inch or two of growth before spring turn that in to the ground before it goes to seed in the spring, and it will greatly increase the harvest next year. I have about 1/4 acre behind the store that I have clover growing on now, and at home I have an electric poultry net, that I move when ever the chickens have scratched the earth bare and ate the weed seeds. Come spring I will have almost a full acre to plant at home that has had most all the weeds eradicated and has had a couple of months of chicken poop spread on it.
Of all the years to fall behind with my summer garden, I got pneumonia this summer, so I need to grow more next year to make up for the missing cans in the pantry.
Thank you Dr. Paul for making me act on what I already knew was right.
Grow some tobacco.....good
Grow some tobacco.....good barter item. Put up some rum to sell chew.
WARNING: grows and spreads like a weed, plant far away from other plants. Best when "planted" in areas that you "can't" plant, ect; ditch's
I'm going all out next year
Much larger garden. Chickens. Catfish. Bees. And I'm adding a large hydroponic system to one area, just because I happen to have all the necessary stuff laying around (I used to own a carwash)
Go Vertical with your hydroponics!
Massively increase your grow area. There are systems you can buy (hydrostacker, vertigro) or you can try to hack your own.
~jaq
Get goats.
Unlike chickens, goats eat weeds. Weeds are the easiest plants to grow, hence goats are the easiest domesticated animals to feed.
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Goats can be more difficult to control than government.
The Plumber
Guess,
because they are smarter.
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