Growing your own food

Beginner Gardening Tips for a Successful Garden – Grow Your Own Food! (19m09s video by Rob Greenfield, posted 6-15-2020)

https://www.communitygarden.org/

https://wwoof.net/

If you want to want (or need) to begin growing your own vegetables and fruits, the video above and the 2 organizations I provided links to should get you started.

And, for those who want helpful hints on how to do container gardening right, check out https://www.treehugger.com/secret-container-vegetable-gardening-4863889

Program note: I spent my summer vacations and more lending a hand to my Choctaw maternal grandfather who owned & farmed 300 acres north of the rustic Panhandle town of Plainview, Texas. This equipped me with some insights on how to grow vegetables & various kinds of fruit and keep weeds and insects at bay.

I’ve also raised vegetables and dwarf fruit bushes in various types of containers outdoors down through the years (I am doing this right now on the patio of my Japanese wife and I’s abode in SoCal).

And done stints in Ag labs and greenhouses devoted to growing various culinary mushrooms and more.

I say all this to indicate my familiarity with the challenges that face farmers and home gardeners. I will periodically post helpful hints gleamed from my years of work and experimentation.

America is obviously in dire economic shape right now and backyard and community gardening projects will help growers reduce their food bills and also (hopefully) give them surplus to donate to local food banks.

Personally I am in favor of folks pooling their resources and buying land, setting up fire, earthquake & storm resistant homes (off the grid or nearly so), making use of water & land conserving equipment (high tech & intermediate tech) and devoting acreage to growing many different types of vegetables & fruits. Some who go this route might find merit in setting up a nonprofit co-op or such.

Recently I became a VP/CSO with a nonprofit religious university (More on this later on). This school has a school of ecology with many professors who have worked in agricultural projects and communes abroad. You can bet your bottom dollar I will be tapping these highly educated and experienced professionals for tips, insights and caveats for novice “patio farmers” as well as those who have their sights on buying a farmette or such and living off the land.

Readers can contact me at nativescienceguy at gmail.com.

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