melons to eat from the bottom of the garden, how fantastic, why do so few people grow their food, there is houndreads of pounds worth of food in my garden, we havent bought any vegtables for over 4 months, try roasted tomatoes with oinion and garlic in a baking tray with olive oil untill the oinion is cooked, also then save the stock and cook some dried beans in it, that is food of the gods. i am in constant amazement of how affluent this socieoty is, how untacktile, unrealistic!, how contryside in 30 years changed from people trying to live and get by to pomp and recreation and an amusement park. alotments taken over by huge monopolising farming estates, comon land built on by developers, theres many walled kitchen gardens with fantastic victorian greenhouses backed onto potting sheads with cold frames or melon pits in near disrepear, places in which o.5-3 hours work a day would provide 80% of a famalies food. tree propagation is not local or national but there brought in from europe which brings in new deseases like oak wilt. theres few small orchards left. land is so expensive its strangling anyone below the middle classes to set up a buisness in horticulture or buy land for a home. local production, crafts, skills, food production, interdependable local ecanomics, and Comunity are/have been killed by this rising sea of costs and afluency. child with thoughts hanging heavily round his neck, or maybe the rope is the other way up
Oh boy, couldn't agree with you more... How shallow and self-absorbed the world has become... all about "the now" and creature comforts. Today I planted seeds for tomatoes, lettuce, cucumber and corn (we'll see how that one goes growing on a balcony LOL)... I plan on expanding the garden but I have to admit I am notoriously slack with watering and have killed off most of my herbs.
We grow most of our food,hardly ever have to go to the store.its pretty easy for me to grow enouph for my wife and i and our pets(yes the dog and cat are vegitarians allso)..and we allways have enouph toi share with friends.the hard part is preserving it throu the winter.green healing thoughts. frog
Thanks for the replies. its lovely to be able to give friends and family good food and seedlings from the garden. good to hear you have the little practiced pleasure of growing ones own vegtables and fruit, espically as sustanance for a veg'an diet. Great! best wishes, enjoy the evening light.
good thread... my first year is obviously not going to yield me hundreds of pounds of grub in my little yard but im certainly gonna have more than i want and be givin a lot a way. it really is nice to sorda say fuck you to the system and our culture and just do it yourself. and its no where near as hard as i thought it would be, or maybe i just have a green thumb? its nice to get myself and some others grocery store consumption a little lower and give them some healthy tastier food. and its just so rewarding and such a good hobby. really connecting back with your really meant to be, living in nature. i agree it really makes no sense that we dont grow at least a good % of all the food we eat, as opposed to most everybody having their own private monotone vegetable and tomatoe gardens making trading and bartering basically impossible. people need to start forming communities and working with each other like they are supposed to be. it would be cool to maybe grow all my own on a homestead for a raw vegan diet at some point in my life, would probably take a lot of hard work and dedication though.
do you suplement your dogs diet in any way? we tried that once when i was a kid, had to give up after about two weeks
i love growing presurving and saving on food. ive always grown what i could what we used most and the most costly unfortunaly i don't have the room i would like. but every summer fall i would go to local farmers markets at prome harvesting season and buy produce by the case and can or freeze it. i saved a lot of money had fresh well fresher than canned or something thats been siting in a market for who knows how long. and i alwys knew exactly what was in it cause i put it there.
