Ingenious ways to grow food - all around the world

[Constance]

There are people from all around the world getting very creative about how they grow their food and so I invite you to share what you have discovered that is simple, as natural as possible, organic...and with a view to using as little technology as possible, in the ways of growing food.


The benefits of vetiver grass

Before we planted vetiver, I didn't really understand it.

Soil erosion and landslides have always been a problem for the East Balinese because of their mountainous terrain and heavy rainfall. We learn in this great little "how to video", how vetiver changed the way this community have been able to grow food on previously unworkable land, and how they were able to use this remarkable grass in many other different ways throughout the community.

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The Vetiver System and Indonesia's East Bali Poverty Project


Meanwhile in Western Ethiopia...

Ano Farm (Western Ethiopia) has used the Vetiver System to reduce erosion and improve groundwater recharge. The results are higher crop yields and increased groundwater and regenerated water flow from springs.

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Vetiver System (Vetiver Grass): Ground Water Recharge

[Constance]

Making more out of less. Entire local towns could be fed with this ingenious design by Russ Finch.

Youtube introduction by Kirsten Dirksen.




Winter temperatures in Alliance, Nebraska can drop to -20°F (the record low is -40°F/C), but retired mailman Russ Finch grows oranges in his backyard greenhouse without paying for heat. Instead, he draws on the earth's stable temperature (around 52 degrees in his region) to grow warm weather produce- citrus, figs, pomegranates - in the snow.

Finch first discovered geothermal heating in 1979 when he and his wife built it into their 4400-square-foot dream home to cut energy costs. Eighteen years later they decided to add a 16'x80' greenhouse in the backyard. The greenhouse resembles a pit greenhouse (walipini) in that the floor is dug down 4 feet below the surface and the roof is slanted to catch the southern sun.

To avoid using heaters for the cold Nebraska winter nights, Finch relies on the warm underground air fed into the greenhouse via plastic tubing under the yard and one fan.

Finch sells a "Citrus in the Snow" report detailing his work with his "geo-air" greenhouses and says anyone can build a market-producing greenhouse for about $25,000 or "less than the cost of a heat system on a traditional greenhouse".


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Nebraska retiree uses earths's heat to grow oranges in snow


Greenhouseinthesnow.com (https://greenhouseinthesnow.com/)

[Constance]

I first shared about Geoff Lawtons remarkable work with greening the desert here (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?106573-Desertification-and-its-Antidote&p=1285524&viewfull=1#post1285524)

In this video, Geoff shows what can happen in just one year using permaculture to grow food.

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Geoff Leads a Teaching Tour of the Greening the Desert Site

[Constance]

From poverty to permaculture in India.

Bill Mollison, the father of permaculture works with Aranya farm to turn a rocky barren wasteland into a lush food forest. As the passionate farmer of Aranya farm proclaimed, Any land can be transformed within 2-3 years

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India's Water Revolution #4: Permaculture for Wastelands at Aranya Farm

[Constance]

Gardens build community. period

plants change people

This is how Ron Finlay, guerilla gardener feels about growing food. He lives in a place that has been zoned as a food desert. A food desert has been defined by the USDA as an area where there is not access to fresh, readily available, healthy food.
He has taken his inspirations and actioned them into reality by taking asphalt and dead grass in empty lots and sidewalks throughout his community in Los Angeles and transforming them into productive edible gardens. He constructed his own garden so that he could feed people in his community. I love the spirit of this guy.



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Ron Finley: Food Forest

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Ron Finley: An unlikely farm feeds a community

[Constance]

This couple grow much of their food on their man-made island, ten miles north of Tofino, British Columbia, off the west coast of Vancouver Island. Starting @ 2.12 - 2.54 [13 min video]
Nature has been my guide

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27 YEARS Living Off-Grid on a Self-Built Island Homestead

[Constance]

This no-till garden method using cardboard has been bountiful for Ricky Baruc, who farms in Orange, Massachusetts. He has used this method for 20 years. Whilst he didn't invent this method of no-till gardening (as the title suggests), he has lots of valuable insights to share regarding the art of cardboard no-till gardening.




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Cardboard Method Inventor Tells All: No-Till Gardening Guide to Worm Sex and Good Food

[Constance]

JADAM or Korean natural farming, offers a completely different perspective on how to farm organically, cheaply and effectively. Master Cho shows farmers and gardening enthusiasts how to make bulk natural pesticides, root promoting fertilisers and soil bacteria for just dollars. Everything for the english speaker is in subtitles.

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JADAM Lecture Part 1. Agriculture Revolution! Ultra-Low-Cost Organic Farming (30 videos)


Part 2 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjG1abl3doI&ab_channel=JADAMOrganicFarminginKOREA-Worldwide)

Part 3 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFP3kyQERME&ab_channel=JADAMOrganicFarminginKOREA-Worldwide)

Part 4 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bslxNTwbRE&ab_channel=JADAMOrganicFarminginKOREA-Worldwide)

Part 5 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIRvmA2Gkgs&ab_channel=JADAMOrganicFarminginKOREA-Worldwide)

Part 6 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOwzN0YO3gI&ab_channel=JADAMOrganicFarminginKOREA-Worldwide)

Part 7 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZEFowG_cmE&ab_channel=JADAMOrganicFarminginKOREA-Worldwide)

Part 8 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwxOFo0gRs8&ab_channel=JADAMOrganicFarminginKOREA-Worldwide)

Part 9 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICb1_QoMYkE&ab_channel=JADAMOrganicFarminginKOREA-Worldwide)

Part 10 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_256uzuPBA&ab_channel=JADAMOrganicFarminginKOREA-Worldwide)

Part 11 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10WkOtXkvB4&ab_channel=JADAMOrganicFarminginKOREA-Worldwide)

Part 12 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzY6R7rH_p4&ab_channel=JADAMOrganicFarminginKOREA-Worldwide)

Part 13 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRRs1pbUsH0&list=PLba0q5T16c0VFr272n7yCtiR8QcnSgviS&index=14&ab_channel=JADAMOrganicFarminginKOREA-Worldwide)

Part 14 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__NOj6DOKtI&ab_channel=JADAMOrganicFarminginKOREA-Worldwide)

Part 15 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wltSBS2NUvM&ab_channel=JADAMOrganicFarminginKOREA-Worldwide)

Part 16 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35edGnMMP54&ab_channel=JADAMOrganicFarminginKOREA-Worldwide)

Part 17 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46EP8mTgFok&ab_channel=JADAMOrganicFarminginKOREA-Worldwide)

Part 18 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GobG1IJOLyo&ab_channel=JADAMOrganicFarminginKOREA-Worldwide)

The instructional e-book for quantities and ingredients (http://anyflip.com/juuu/honn/basic)

[Constance]

Permaculture for Vegans
Permaculture (https://www.permaculturenews.org/2020/07/03/the-biomass-belt-revisited/?fbclid=IwAR31ot9lgrKP1ca5Kaz-voOBl2Y4QutztQVYgwAdJaFCCNtH8qq8bNM3kjk) News in Australia provides a great lengthy article on all the ins and outs...

In Phoenix Arizona...Jake, a vegan athlete grows an edible food forest in a desert climate using woodchips! (no manure). For those who are wondering what he is referring to regarding the New Zealand spinach, it is also called Warrigal greens. Warning, they grow like weeds!

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INCREDIBLE 200+ FRUIT TREE & URBAN GARDEN IN PHOENIX ARIZONA

[Constance]

Jim is a gardener in Florida who makes a living from the produce he grows in his front yard. He makes $1000 a week, selling to a tight circle. He says that people often make the mistake of expanding. Instead, he sells to his local markets novel things like vegetable bouquets. The secret to prolific growing according to Jim is to thin out the plants, to make sure that the ground is never empty, to make sure that there is diversity in what is grown, to plant what he enjoys eating, to mulch and compost well and to use the well water (even if it is salty).



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$1000 A Week: Front-Yard Market Farming + Bicycle Delivery (w/ Jim Kovaleski)

Here he is again in Maine. Jim has not watered his garden in Maine for 7 years. The secret he says is to not break the ground and use grass to heavily mulch. He says, there is room for 10 more Jims.

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NO WATER NEEDED to Grow Veggies? Just Add Grass.

[Strat]

Jim is gardener in Florida

Must...resist...obvious...jokes...

Joking aside I think he offers courses online, teaching his method. I've seriously considered taking them. I looked into this about a year ago, I think it was pricey but I'm not sure. I believe he advocates using hey to wick water from the soil. I want to learn more of his methods because the FL sun wilts damn near everything, I have to put a shade up for the sun post 4PM or everything just gets beaten up. I do well but I want to improve my skills every season and I use a good amount of water.

I may plant more FL friendly plants that are more drought/heat tolerant but at the same time I kinda think screw that I want my tomatoes... and maybe cucumbers. They have pretty leaves.

I want to get sea salt from the ocean. I know some people do this but I don't know how. Kinda silly buying it when the damn ocean is right there and I'm always at the beach.

[Constance]

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[Icare]

Maybe not so much an ingenious way, but certainly a cheap way:

What happens when you regrow vegetables from kitchen scraps in the garden:

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[Constance]

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[Constance]

If you have ever had the frustrating experience of weeds growing up in between your brick pavers or your concrete, maybe there is an opportunity to work with mother nature, rather than against her. :happythumbsup:

This woman in North East China, uses the cracks in between her brick pavement to grow all kinds of vegetables.


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[Constance]

Rooftop gardening is nothing new to many Europeans where there is a lack of land but the challenge with urban growing is to grow enough food in a way that it gets enough sun, or knowing what to grow where the rooftop gets too much sun.

Robert Strauss lives in Spain. He grows his food on five levels. He makes his own compost by getting scraps from the local green grocer, as well as collecting leaves from his neighbors during the fall and winter.

He also likes to make good use of the area he has got. For example, he uses his TV antenna to support the kinds of vegetables that like to climb! :bigsmile:

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[Constance]

It's all very well and good to grow a bumper crop of vegetables but how do you preserve them in a way that keeps them fresh throughout the winter?

In the middle of Washington State, the Elliott homestead have discovered a way to keep all the root vegetables they grow like carrots, potatoes, parsnips, beetroot etc throughout the winter months without any cold storage using crates and potting mix. It is an ingenious way of storing vegetables without having to pickle them.

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https://theelliotthomestead.com/2018/06/how-to-store-carrots-2/






Tony O'Neill from the United Kingdom has developed a great way of storing tubers all the way through winter, into the late spring. He stores his potatoes in various ways but the most optimal way he says to store potatoes, is to layer it like a potato lasagne in hay. If you cannot obtain commercially grown hay, you can always use your own dried out long grass clippings, after all, hay is just long grass or a herbaceous plant.

One of the issues that gardeners face is how to store the potatoes they require for seeding. Tony shares how we can store potatoes until we require them for seeding.

He also shows us how to harvest potatoes in the most efficient way possible.

2EhVPTPVv6UStoring Potatoes Long Term - Save Your Potato Harvest

[Constance]

In the middle of Manhattan, on the rooftop of a parking space, Jonathan Sumner of Riverpark farm is growing food in 3200 milk crates. The restaurant in Manhattan he works for is right outside his door. He works in collaboration with the chef so that the food is farm-to-table.
There are many unique challenges to growing in this urban environment but he shows us how he overcomes them to grow the kinds of high quality food that is not seen fresh in many markets.


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Farming in 3,200 Milk Crates For a High-End Restaurant in Manhattan

[Constance]

Joe Karsten (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTXdelF5xH0&feature=emb_logo&ab_channel=TEDxTalks) has been the inspiration for strawbale gardening all around the world.

Jill, who lives in one of the Southern states of America, decided to experiment with growing organic tomatoes in strawbales. She shares here the results of her experiment, some of the benefits and pitfalls around growing in strawbales and how she prepares the strawbales for the tomato seedlings.


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[Bubu]

Thanks Constance. beautiful. Everywhere I look I see places to grow food for every sentient being on earth and a place to stay. We can grow foods on walls vertical garden, on air. There is vast shallows at sea where people can build a dome structure under safely. at 20 meters deep the pressure is only 28psi. High pressure blowers blowing air in will supply the oxygen. wave powers can be harness to power and light the place. with lights plants can grow. I'd like to take some time to chill out in such a place:). In our country with 350 people per Km2 I still see vast forest. we can replace this none food producing trees with producing ones. Its beyond me why some people says earth is overpopulated and we need to depopulate.

[Constance]

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[Bubu]

yes "return to nature" will be nice but to some of us its difficult if not impossible because most part of nature is owned by those who dont want to care for it. Just a while back my son sent me a message for a farm lot for sale in the mountains. 5 hectares for 1.5M peso ph. that would be around 30K US$ we cannot afford that. we been actively looking for land for more than a year now with no luck to find a cheap option. I'm aware that there are a lot of families/people that is financially way below us. To them its impossible to go back to nature, unless they become tenants/slaves for some money rich people. Another proof that money must be abolish. covid scamdemic is made possible because of money also. With barter system hoarding is not possible.
Yes I have mentioned before that if we learn to care for each other, the control system will collapse, because control system is accomplish by making us compete/fight with each other. That is why the elite is afraid of popular people who promote peace love and sharing. the likes of John Lennon, Michael Jackson and Jesus all very popular all murdered.
So again my most important message is "let's take care of each and everyone"

[Constance]

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[Constance]

The inventor has created a closed loop system that can regenerate soil in a matter of days, rather than weeks or years.
In addition to having the capacity to regenerate the soil, the system provides a green powerhouse, and the opportunity to grow food in almost any climate you can imagine. Imagine a community being able to simultaneously grow food whilst obtaining free energy for up to 100 homes? Whilst not low tech, it is a system that appears as if it could be replicated anywhere throughout the world. It's a complete game changer.

Unfortunately, it is hidden behind a paywall but well worth the watch.


https://grow.foodrevolution.org/

[Constance]

In places like Hokkaido Japan (https://allabout-japan.com/en/article/1443/), they have taken advantage of snowy mountainous conditions to grow sweet sweet winter vegetables. Oh my!

The youtube intro says:




Snow on the winter vegetable garden does not mean the end of harvest. Snow will insulate winter crops from freezing temperatures and protect them until harvest. A killing frost or freeze will do more damage to winter vegetables than snow.

Carrots, turnips, Brussels sprouts, and cabbage, chard, and head lettuce can be harvested from under a blanket of snow. Scallions and fall leeks to the size of scallions can be harvested from under snow. Onions can remain in the garden under snow if a protective layer of mulch lies in between. Parsnips and Brussels sprouts will taste sweeter after being covered by snow.


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Sweet Vegetable under Snow Harvesting - Snow Vegetable Farm - Amazing Japan Agriculture Technology

[Constance]

In Chicago, this guy is growing salad and winter vegetables like Kale in a greenhouse with temperatures plummeting to the minus figures without any heating. Plants are more cold hardy, than most people think.



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How Our Winter Garden Survived -23°F (-31°C) With No Heat

[Constance]

What is syntropic farming? (https://agendagotsch.com/en/what-is-syntropic-farming/)



It's an agroforestry system that goes far beyond regular agroforestry. It is much more diverse in what it has to offer because short term and long term harvesting is happening; there is no waste runoff, it is a pesticide and herbicide, chemical-free fertilizer way of growing food, harvesting can begin within three months, you use a fifth of the water usually required and it is such an abundant system.

Everything required for the system, is in the system. You are growing your mulch in place.


The five core principles of syntropic farming are:


Groundcover - no bare dirt
Stratification - create a multilayered system of plants with different light requirements
Natural succession - Mimic a rainforest. New life replaces the old.
Maximise photosynthesis - utilize your foliage.
Manage, harvest, prune and monitor to maintain ground cover.




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Syntropic Agroforestry Project on the Farm || Phase 1


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Syntropic Agroforestry Planting (Phase 1 UPDATE )

[Johan (Keyholder)]

Very useful and even necessary thread! Thanks for that Constance!

This evening we watched a documentary that would fit right in here.

You can find it (a link) on the website: www.kisstheground.com

The keyword is regeneration (agriculture).

[Constance]

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[DaveToo]

This couple grow much of their food on their man-made island, ten miles north of Tofino, British Columbia, off the west coast of Vancouver Island. Starting @ 2.12 - 2.54 [13 min video]
Nature has been my guide

4ts15BW-6hw
27 YEARS Living Off-Grid on a Self-Built Island Homestead

That's absolutely phenomenal Constance. :)

The thing I'm probably most jealous about the couple is their noise-free environment.

[Constance]

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[DaveToo]

This couple grow much of their food on their man-made island, ten miles north of Tofino, British Columbia, off the west coast of Vancouver Island. Starting @ 2.12 - 2.54 [13 min video]
Nature has been my guide

4ts15BW-6hw
27 YEARS Living Off-Grid on a Self-Built Island Homestead

That's absolutely phenomenal Constance. :)

The thing I'm probably most jealous about the couple is their noise-free environment.

🙏 :heart:

It looks like so much fun! What I really love about how they are living is that they are able to connect with nature whilst being able to do what they love to do.

Yes and they also have the best of both worlds, as they can connect with their friends and family whenever they need/want to. :)

[9ideon]

In Europe there is all kinds of weird stuff going on concerning this business.

TTip failed, the Canadian version passed though, but in fact the plan was to position Monsanto in Europe as the sole seed supplier, yes, you have read this right. Since ttip was pulled by Trump (tg), Monsanto was suddenly bought by German giant Bayer, yes, again you have read this right. Why would they go trough all this trouble?

For this Law:


The “Plant Reproductive Material Law” regulates all plants. ... The new law basically puts the government in charge of all plants and seeds in Europe, and prevents home gardeners from growing their own plants from non-regulated seeds. If they did, they would now be considered criminals.”23 Apr 2014

It goes much further than this, but this is the update for now:


The European Commission is about to pass a horrible law called the Plant Reproductive Material Law. The law will create a new European Union bureaucracy named the Plant Variety Agency and it will put this bureaucracy in charge of approving virtually all plants and seeds.14 May 2019

Welcome to the EU.

This tradition and purely natural process is being destroyed over here by greed (again).

I hope that they keep their hands of the so called 3rd World, but I am not holding my breath.

[Bubu]

In Europe there is all kinds of weird stuff going on concerning this business.

TTip failed, the Canadian version passed though, but in fact the plan was to position Monsanto in Europe as the sole seed supplier, yes, you have read this right. Since ttip was pulled by Trump (tg), Monsanto was sudeenly bought by German giant Bayer, yes, again you have read this right. Why would they go trough all this trouble?

For this Law:


The “Plant Reproductive Material Law” regulates all plants. ... The new law basically puts the government in charge of all plants and seeds in Europe, and prevents home gardeners from growing their own plants from non-regulated seeds. If they did, they would now be considered criminals.”23 Apr 2014

It goes much further than this, but this is the update for now:


The European Commission is about to pass a horrible law called the Plant Reproductive Material Law. The law will create a new European Union bureaucracy named the Plant Variety Agency and it will put this bureaucracy in charge of approving virtually all plants and seeds.14 May 2019

Welcome to the EU.

This tradition and purely natural process is being destroyed over here by greed (again).

I hope that they keep their hands of the so called 3rd World, but I am not holding my breath.

people need to start disobeying

[Bubu]

"Groundcover - no bare dirt
Stratification - create a multilayered system of plants with different light requirements
Natural succession - Mimic a rainforest. New life replaces the old.
Maximise photosynthesis - utilize your foliage.
Manage, harvest, prune and monitor to maintain ground cover."

This is my idea of gardening. I didn't know that it has a name already:) Some observations from my small garden laboratory. Its not intended for production rather for learning. I planted sweet potatoes where blady grass use to be. For months the grass will sprout and I kept trimmer or uprooting them. Until no more and the sweet potato thrive, After I harvested the sweet potato some potatoes was left. Now sweet potato took the role of the blady grass they keep sprouting. Conclusion: once a plant become establish it means there is also an establish soil ecosystem that supports it. This ecosystem favors the existing plant and will try to kill the new comers. How will I use this learning? Say I plant the 3 sisters? What i will do is kept the area planted with it all the time. It means I must plant new ones before the oldies die off. Benefits. Its going to kept the support soil ecosystem thrive. The new, baby plants will benefit from the shade of the oldies. And yes just like humans the parent plants take care of their young's. Its been proven scientifically that plants communicate and help each other via the soil internet the "fungi". You can read the works of Dr. Suzane Simard. (Hope I got that correct) Dr. Bryant Redhawk.

[9ideon]

In Europe there is all kinds of weird stuff going on concerning this business.

TTip failed, the Canadian version passed though, but in fact the plan was to position Monsanto in Europe as the sole seed supplier, yes, you have read this right. Since ttip was pulled by Trump (tg), Monsanto was sudeenly bought by German giant Bayer, yes, again you have read this right. Why would they go trough all this trouble?

For this Law:


The “Plant Reproductive Material Law” regulates all plants. ... The new law basically puts the government in charge of all plants and seeds in Europe, and prevents home gardeners from growing their own plants from non-regulated seeds. If they did, they would now be considered criminals.”23 Apr 2014

It goes much further than this, but this is the update for now:


The European Commission is about to pass a horrible law called the Plant Reproductive Material Law. The law will create a new European Union bureaucracy named the Plant Variety Agency and it will put this bureaucracy in charge of approving virtually all plants and seeds.14 May 2019

Welcome to the EU.

This tradition and purely natural process is being destroyed over here by greed (again).

I hope that they keep their hands of the so called 3rd World, but I am not holding my breath.

people need to start disobeying

Yes they should.

[Bubu]

I've been apprehended twice already. not wearing face diaper and wearing it on the chin. No jail no fine. I guess everyone's aware by now or is already doubting. They dont seem to force the issue. Just a show off that they are doing what they are told to do so. Its where they earn their living.

Back to garden:)

[Constance]

In the dry deserts of Chile, fog water is harvested for drinking water. Farmers also use it to grow Aloe Vera. 🙂

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[Nenuphar]

What an interesting and informative thread! Thank you very much, Constance! :sun:

[Ewan]

Thank you Constance for this totally inspiring thread. If it ever comes to pass, and they ever allow us to travel again - vaccine free - I may just come and say hi after I've crossed Bill off the list in Ecuador. :)

[Constance]

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[Bubu]

If it ever comes to pass, and they ever allow us to travel again - vaccine free -. :)

Of course we will travel again vaccine free whether they like it or not. They made the attack first, they should watch out for the counter attack.

[Constance]

This family in Ontario, Canada have taken the ancient technique of Chinampa (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinampa) and have created a food forest out of what would usually be limited land space.

The entire video is fascinating but for talk about food forests and Chinampas, it's best to watch from 7.44 to 9.12.

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12 YEARS Living Off-Grid on a Sustainable Homestead in a Self-Built Cob Home

[Ewan]

Next Gen Farming Without Soil

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ww2TP_tU7o

Unbelievable, vegetables transported across state lines are often sprayed with pesticides, even organic!

Build Your Own Tower

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnpngJnn-nA

[All is one]

One lazy way for growing food everywhere is planting/sowing vegetables & fruit etc. , which are indigenous to the country. Then grow some of them till they produce seeds. The seeds resow themselves without the need to do anything and pretty soon the whole space/garden is full of all types of different vegetables, herbs etc, which resow themselves.;)

[palehorse]

Seedballs is an ancient method that won't require ploughing the soil, it is simple and effective.

ps.: the video posted by Constance is one of the best I ever watched, thanks for that. They did an amazing work, I wish we could have more people and places like that.

[I am B]

Do you guys know about aquaponics? ^^
Its a self sufficient system with a simple water circuit, fish, and some filters. And what it does is to mimic the natural course of water. I read somewhere it was extensively used in Syria, being put on top of the buildings at the time of war. Its surely a good alternative for those with small or no land available.

https://youmatter.world/en/definition/aquaponics-sustainable-benefits-system/

This is just a small basic article i found, but wider info is easily available out there.

[Bubu]

Do you guys know about aquaponics? ^^
Its a self sufficient system with a simple water circuit, fish, and some filters. And what it does is to mimic the natural course of water. I read somewhere it was extensively used in Syria, being put on top of the buildings at the time of war. Its surely a good alternative for those with small or no land available.

https://youmatter.world/en/definition/aquaponics-sustainable-benefits-system/

This is just a small basic article i found, but wider info is easily available out there.

yes good for those with limited space. But if there is enough space, I'd say its not natural it simply mimics nature. Growing land based plants in water is no way natural. Plants will lack the micro minerals that is only found in natural soil. Plant in AP simply looks good because there is more nitrates from fish poop. Also its labor intensive if you have an small system. And yes, takes time to balance the system.

[Constance]

Bumping. :heart: