I picked these tomatoes in an open field close to my house.
They were growing wild.
They taste great!
And
this got me thinking,
if we threw seeds into every open plot, how much extra
free food we would have and that got me thinking about the open space in our
gardens, especially if you include the lawn! And that got me pondering the mass crop situation and how unnatural it is to grow just one
crop for kilometers repeatedly in the same place year after year, and then I thought
(all this thinking was very linear, as you can see!) about supply on demand and how we have the
industrial era to thank for suburbia and now we have suburbia to thank for the
protracted employment of mass crop farming.
If you look at these
two images, they look rather similar and in fact, the one necessitates the other. The concentration of people in one space, not growing their own food, requires an unsustainably vast quantity of food grown in another place.
This visibly explains that if we want an end to commercial farming we have to feed ourselves,
we cannot demand a change but still go to the supermarket to buy groceries. What
we need is something more like this…
We need to grow our
own.
If you don’t already have your own garden and don’t have a lot of space,
then start with potted fruit and vegetables that are easy to manage. Most
plants do well in pots provided they have enough space.
Check out this website
for tips:
Growing you own food
ensure food that it is fresh and grown with love and it’s so empowering when those
first little shoots start to show. Good plants to grow in temperate regions in
South Africa in January are: Dwarf beans, climbing beans, beetroot,
broccoli, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, carrots, cauliflower, celery, Chinese
cabbage, cucumber, endive, leeks, lettuce, marrow, spring onions, parsnip,
potatoes, radish, silver-beet, sweet corn, turnips.
Pick one, find out
what it likes and start from there! The time is now!
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