This is a brilliant inspirational post from Eartha Lowe, which makes me want to grow my own food, and tells you all the ways to go about it, even if you don’t have a garden. Click here to read the whole thing.
Published on May 2, 2020
A Guide to Growing Good Food at Home: Planning Your Space
written by Eartha Lowe, Cooking Green Goodness Magazine
Gardening, for many people, is a uniquely fulfilling leisure pursuit. There are few better ways of quieting anxieties, stilling emotions and regaining a truer perspective on life. The whole point of maintaining a garden is to provide relaxation, or even food for the spirit with your own nurturing hands. However small your plot is, use it to grow aromatic herbs or flowers, attract butterflies, or maybe even vegetables and fruits – if you are really ambitious.
PLANNING
Healthy, fresh food is right at your doorstep, but before you get growing, you MUST do a bit of planning. You can grow food even if you do not have a yard. Grow food on a window ledge, up a wall, on a roof, in a community garden allotment garden, or through a backyard sharing program. Here are some important things to know to start growing food at home.
Why? It’s a good time to explore ways to grow your own food. You get to enjoy healthy, delicious, family favourites right where you live. Growing food at home in your city, is also an important and effective way to create food-friendly neighbourhoods, and space to grow can be found anywhere.
Where? As more and more people are interested in growing their own food and exploring ways to create productive gardens at home, getting to know the small spaces, bigger spaces, or space in between where food can be grown, is an important first step.
https://cggmagazine.ca/2020/05/02/a-guide-to-growing-good-food-at-home-planning-your-space/
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Reblogged this on Rangitikei Environmental Health Watch.
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Beautiful looking vegetables.
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The best thing about growing your own vegetables is that you can avoid using commercial fertilizers, which can have devastating impacts on foods!
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Absolutely.
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Absolutely. Such an obvious solution to getting at least some fresh food in the diet. Hopefully will catch on again.
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Yes indeed 😀
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I love seeing so many people taking up gardening as a hobby during covid. I hope it continues to be a lifelong pursuit for many. I’ve had my fair share of terrible experiences (apartment balcony garden in direct heat, lol), but I’m always trying to get better at it.
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Yes it is a wonderful hobby. I too have planted lots of things that didn’t grow for long, haha, and it’s so brilliant when they do grow! 😀
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Thank you for sharing this information with us, Miranda! Gardening is not my personal strength, but it certainly teaches long-term thinking!
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Mine either but I have a romantic idea of being able to do it one day 😀
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I’m hoping to have my own space sometime, so that I could have a little garden. I got excited when I threw some bell pepper seeds in a pot and they sprouted and grew!
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Congratulations! It is very exciting isn’t it? We’re restricted to pots too, but it’s still very satisfying when you grow something you can eat 😀
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I know…I was like “I’m growing peppers!”
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Ha ha ha 😀 Brilliant! I think I’ll have another go at cucumbers this year. You can’t beat home-grown cucumbers 😀
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Oh, that’s awesome! I hope to see pictures! I really miss the farmers’ market from back in New Mexico…
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What’s happened to it?
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I had to move to Kansas for internet and cell phone service.
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Ah, I see 🙂
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Reblogged this on Ned Hamson's Second Line View of the News.
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And thanks for reblogging this too 😀
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