Description:People are isolated from each other, public spaces are being privatized, and we are being punished for attempting to grow our own food. There is only one solution: resistance. Join us this week as we explore how to build communities through revolutionary gardening, revolutionary walking and other everyday activities.
Documentation
Documentation – Cabbagegate
Time Reference:
17:49
Description:
The New World Next Week covers the story of a Georgia man who is being sued for growing fruits and vegetables on his own property.
Documentation – Pittsburgh wants to regulate community gardens
Time Reference:
23:00
Description:
Pittsburgh city council have decided that one way to make up for their fiscal irresponsibility is to charge a fee and regulate honeybees, chickens and community gardens.
Documentation – City Hall Continues to Bury Community Gardens Under Permits and Procedures
Time Reference:
23:04
Description:
First the city needs a letter from the owner of a property that says, yes, it’s fine for someone to garden on his or her land. Then the city wants a site plan from the operator of said garden. Then the city wants a list of names and addresses of all
Documentation – Mariana Griggs Ain’t OK W/ City Option 4 Community Gardens
Time Reference:
23:19
Description:
This recommended option will change the way we have created community gardens so far. First, there will be lots of meetings, with neighbors and interested parties (you know no one will be able to meet at the same time). Then there will be required si
As with successful businesses, along comes the big dog and takes over, or buys it out, or kills the owner and takes over, As Ahab and his wife Jezebel did to Naboth, for love of his nice little ancestral vineyard, in 1 Kings 21.
Having your own food is beginning of independence. To many people this days don’t even know how vegetables grown in soil without chemical fertilizers tastes. What you eat is what you are.
Therefore artificial crap like hydroponics cannot provide highly valuable natural food. Real food comes from dirt that is living organism, not just substrate with proper chemical ingredients, but an ecosystem with bacteria and fungi.
If one decides to have an urban garden I would recommend to invest a bit more that would at the end provide more with less work. System of connected self-irrigated containers is excellent solution.
Holbein survived the famine in post-WW II Netherlands. Her motivation for writing the book was her concerns about food security. The book is filled with practical advice on plot planning, composting, and how to grow plants in temperate climates. All on a one meter plot.
For people interested something bigger for their community or market gardening purposes. This couple produce 8000kg of organically grown produce off a 1/4 acre plot of land in one growing season (New Zealand temperate climate) – off-grid! https://www.pakarakafarm.co.nz/market-garden//product.php?productid=593
As with successful businesses, along comes the big dog and takes over, or buys it out, or kills the owner and takes over, As Ahab and his wife Jezebel did to Naboth, for love of his nice little ancestral vineyard, in 1 Kings 21.
Having your own food is beginning of independence. To many people this days don’t even know how vegetables grown in soil without chemical fertilizers tastes. What you eat is what you are.
Therefore artificial crap like hydroponics cannot provide highly valuable natural food. Real food comes from dirt that is living organism, not just substrate with proper chemical ingredients, but an ecosystem with bacteria and fungi.
If one decides to have an urban garden I would recommend to invest a bit more that would at the end provide more with less work. System of connected self-irrigated containers is excellent solution.
Guide to Setting Up
Your Own Edible Rooftop Garden
http://archives.rooftopgardens.ca/files/howto_EN_FINAL_lowres.pdf
page 52
Containers should be as big as possible (my are 60*90*60cm) because majority of plants don’t like big day-night temperature fluctuations around roots.
For beginner gardeners with a very small amount of space, I recommend:
One Magic Square – Grow your own food on one square metre by Lolo Holbein
https://www.wakefieldpress.com.au/product.php?productid=593
Holbein survived the famine in post-WW II Netherlands. Her motivation for writing the book was her concerns about food security. The book is filled with practical advice on plot planning, composting, and how to grow plants in temperate climates. All on a one meter plot.
For people interested something bigger for their community or market gardening purposes. This couple produce 8000kg of organically grown produce off a 1/4 acre plot of land in one growing season (New Zealand temperate climate) – off-grid!
https://www.pakarakafarm.co.nz/market-garden//product.php?productid=593