I took my client out to Welland Community Orchard & wheeled him around the community orchard park. He had never been there before & loved seeing everything there. It was a lovely post-lunch outing.

These are some of the purple flowering broccoli plants that we grow in our raised bed food gardens at the community orchard park.

#FoodSecurity #FoodSystems #FoodEquity #GrowFood #GrowVeggies #WellandCommunityOrchard #FoodGarden

@KorinnaAllhoff I think most people in the Global North don't realise the extent to which those in the Global South depend on themselves instead of #factoryfarming for #foodsecurity .

#selfsufficient #sustainable #homegarden #foodgarden

Final carrot harvest of the year (minus the several we kept eating), had to break through a frozen layer of soil today. Rest will stay for seeding next year. Thing 1 made an amazing veggie stir-fry with most of them 😋

#food #FoodGarden @gardening
#Harvest

"The person is a full-time professor. He just happens to grow all his own food on 750m2 by working one day per month. He also built his own house. He wrote peer-reviewed science papers about it."


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNR8JfHah00
#Gardening #FoodGarden #Climate #SelfSufficiency

Man grows ALL of his food on 750m2

YouTube

Silver #cockscomb - very similar to amaranth.
Originally native to #India - it was saved from extinction through #cultivation because of its religious significance. #Indian , #Burmese & #Chinese gardeners usually plant them by temples.

Cockscomb is an #EdiblePlant & a pretty #grain alternative. Often consumed in southern #Nigeria, #Benin , #Congo & #Indonesia. Young stems & flowers are #edible. Seeds are also edible are referred to as #pseudocereals.

#FoodSecurity #FoodPlants #FoodGarden #GrowFood #Gardening #food #GrowItEatIt #GrowFoodNotLawns #Zone8 #plants #Wsanec #Saanich #VictoriaBC #YYJ #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #PNW #Bloomscrolling #florespondence #PlantIdentification #FlowersIdentification #botanical #EdibleFlowers