Keith D JohnsonI certainly would like to see more signs like this in every village, town, and city.
#relocalize #permaculture #UrbanFarming
#relocalize #permaculture #UrbanFarming
Also, church properties offer additional potential for urban gardening / orcharding / food forests. Talk to your local priest, pastor, or shaman to make this happen.
John Caveney woke is me🛠️@KeithDJohnson it’s what Jesus would have wanted!
JulieB@KeithDJohnson . . . then partner that garden with a local food bank.
I've seen it done. It is a gorgeous partnership.
SinclairLewis [Minnesota]@KeithDJohnson The church I grew up in does just that on their vacant land. They opened it up to the local Hmong community, who use it for both home and market gardening.
Carol Hedges@KeithDJohnson what a great idea
Agora@KeithDJohnson I would love to live in this community for sure!
Extinction (our fate)@KeithDJohnson There should be no public land that is manicured for grass. It should all be vegetables, provided to food banks and shelters. Kentucky bluegrass is a #fooddesert.
Artemis Persists@aka_quant_noir @KeithDJohnson This is beautiful. Wow. Colorful and edible!
Ecopolitidae@aka_quant_noir @KeithDJohnson growing vegetables won’t in and of itself address the biodiversity/extinction crisis. Rewilding with natives plants (including edibles) to your eco region would be more effective.
@Ecopolitidae @KeithDJohnson Agreed, the public park as food source (vegetables and other edibles) has more to do with local, public food availability. Biodiversity/extinction needs more than wiser city land use. One thing that crisis needs is a cessation of green field urban development in favor of rewilding those green fields. Among many.
Solar🌄Garden@KeithDJohnson
in the UK, trying to rent you underused gardens [ 9 May 2021] https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/may/09/grow-your-own-in-a-rented-plot-in-the-neighbours-garden
in the UK, trying to rent you underused gardens [ 9 May 2021] https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/may/09/grow-your-own-in-a-rented-plot-in-the-neighbours-garden
Elohi@KeithDJohnson agreed!! ❤️🌱
JohnW@KeithDJohnson Communal markets are the way to go to put a dent into big corp.
It cuts out middlemen and supply line issues as well.
Mycotropic@KeithDJohnson https://dug.org/
That's our crack at it, they get community buy in for turning a chunk of grass space into single family plots and then they build patches, fences and water sources into it and people sign up for plots.
Another interesting take on this is a gleaning program in Utah that harvests crabapples from community spaces and ferments them into cider and then sells cider to fund the process.
#urbangardening #guerillagardening
That's our crack at it, they get community buy in for turning a chunk of grass space into single family plots and then they build patches, fences and water sources into it and people sign up for plots.
Another interesting take on this is a gleaning program in Utah that harvests crabapples from community spaces and ferments them into cider and then sells cider to fund the process.
#urbangardening #guerillagardening
Jemez Stargazer@KeithDJohnson please send them to my neighborhood.
SuperTwaddle@KeithDJohnson That is AWESOME!!
costrike@KeithDJohnson right on.
cohan@KeithDJohnson I hope this idea catches on, would love to see more sub/urban land better utilised.. I'd even like to see it extended to those who'd love to plant natives, other perennials beneficial to wildlife/pollinators etc.
VHaschI would love to donate my backyard. The weeds seem to think it's a great place to grow. 😕
eyrea 🇨🇦@KeithDJohnson Huh. My dad would have done this in a heartbeat to our front yard when I was a kid, but the local bylaws prevented him. Our back yard was full of garden and fruit trees ("go play in the park!"). He researched if ornamental cabbages were edible at one point.
The family across the road had the bylaw-mandated two trees and nothing but grass, but won awards for landscaping. Go figure.