Homegrown Revolution - Radical Change Taking Root »
Posted By ameliog 4 months, 3 weeks ago in Health & FitnessGrow your own food! Pasadena, California family turned their lawn into an urban farm. A revolutionary idea. Video from Jules Dervaes, founder of "Path to Freedom".
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StevieGee4 months, 3 weeks ago
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I have my front yard farm working also. It's not work. It's peaceful and relaxing. I live in California's central valley and have the honor of working some of the best land in the world and I love it. I am growing tomatoes, carrots, artichokes, peas, blackberries, strawberries, and cantaloupes right now. lettuce, broccoli, sprouts, and cauliflower in the winter when it's not so hot. It doesn't look like a farm. I also have a small lawn and lots and lots of flowers.
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Natureboy4 months, 3 weeks ago
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You da man, Stevie Gee -
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My back yard was a parking lot when I moved in. Literally. The place used to be rented by a backyard mechanic who parked cars in the backyard. I still pull brake shoes and other parts out of the soil occasionally. The neighbors said it would never grow anything unless I trucked in topsoil.
Four years later, it is on its way to being a food forest. Dill, nasturtium, lovage and thyme grow beneath canopies of young apple trees. The soil has been contoured and terraced so that rain soaks in rather than running off, and topsoil stays in place.
Incredibly, although the soil was hard as pavement when I started, I have never tilled it. I broadforked this spring, that's it. Sheet-mulching created a friendly environment for earthworms, and they have been doing the tilling.
It's a long-term project. The goal is to create a self-sustaining perennial ecosystem which provides food for humans as well as tending to its own needs.
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ameliog4 months, 3 weeks ago
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StevieGee that's outstanding. You can grow all kinds of good food in your area.
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I have been feeling the urge to grow food and this year we're trying a couple types of tomatoes, corn, lettuce, cantaloupe, watermelon, blueberries, and sunflowers. I haven't been as faithful to the effort as I should but it's produced a little already and most of it will be ready within a month. -
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