There seems to be a trend of normal urban / suburban people seeking respite from the alienation of modern technological life. I have not heard of this man before, but I will research him now!
This is an awesome idea. I live in California so I will research for this area. I have always looked at my backyard and wondered how my production could come from a small post size lot. I think a combination of vertical farming, and extreme plant density is the answer to production issues in urban farming. It will be great to get my green thumb out again and plant! I happily shared this with my followers :)
My father is a farmer and I remember my mother nagging my father to grow some of our stuff. Although my father was reluctant at first but he relented and I remember that time. It too didn't last long and we went back to 100% market bought food.
In the end that experience put this little dream in my head to grow my own food someday.
When my husband found out he had Celiac's we started out with a small little garden. It was also so I could have fresh peas, since let's face it the canned ones taste horrible. I have memories of weeding grandpa's garden and cracking open shells to reveal the fresh peas. I'd sneak more than I cracked, but it was the experience that made it worthwhile. Thankfully we live on the outside of city limits with a bit of land. We are slowly adding fruit trees and shrubs and other small gardens. We even got a grant for a greenhouse we are planting at the moment. Everything starts with a wish and a hope before the dream is realized.
We are just visitors on Earth. It's amazing and scary though, that if all the people would disappear from Earth in 500 years there would literaly be no proof of our existence. Earth would heal itself
Nicely summarised - I agree that urban homesteading should be part of the future... anyone can grow plentiful greens with just a balcony!
There's also a few inspiring examples of roof gardens here in the UK - one in Reading I went to had over 100 varieties of plants.
Although personally I'm moving more rural. Want to upscale my growing.
That's awesome!
Despite all of their faults, I believe humans are still capable of using their technological brains for good.
Are you familiar with Ron Finley? This reminds me a lot of what he's been doing ...
I would love to see this urban homesteading trend pick up!
There seems to be a trend of normal urban / suburban people seeking respite from the alienation of modern technological life. I have not heard of this man before, but I will research him now!
This is an awesome idea. I live in California so I will research for this area. I have always looked at my backyard and wondered how my production could come from a small post size lot. I think a combination of vertical farming, and extreme plant density is the answer to production issues in urban farming. It will be great to get my green thumb out again and plant! I happily shared this with my followers :)
My father is a farmer and I remember my mother nagging my father to grow some of our stuff. Although my father was reluctant at first but he relented and I remember that time. It too didn't last long and we went back to 100% market bought food.
In the end that experience put this little dream in my head to grow my own food someday.
It's an idelic dream -- and one that's actually achievable!
When my husband found out he had Celiac's we started out with a small little garden. It was also so I could have fresh peas, since let's face it the canned ones taste horrible. I have memories of weeding grandpa's garden and cracking open shells to reveal the fresh peas. I'd sneak more than I cracked, but it was the experience that made it worthwhile. Thankfully we live on the outside of city limits with a bit of land. We are slowly adding fruit trees and shrubs and other small gardens. We even got a grant for a greenhouse we are planting at the moment. Everything starts with a wish and a hope before the dream is realized.
That sounds great! 🤗
Color me jealous.
Be impressed with your photographs, they are really wonderful, "seeing the world with different eyes"
We are just visitors on Earth. It's amazing and scary though, that if all the people would disappear from Earth in 500 years there would literaly be no proof of our existence. Earth would heal itself
We are more than visitors ... we are suppose to be the guardians of this earth ... but, instead, we ended up being partakers of her destruction.
So sad… I hope we can turn this around.
That's kind of a metaphysical point, too, when you think about it.