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Grow your own fruit, vegetables, grain and anything else you might like to have. Organic, of course.
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Community Supported Agriculture
Many farms offer produce subscriptions, where buyers receive a weekly or monthly basket of produce, flowers, fruits, eggs, milk, meats, or any sort of different farm products.
A CSA, (for Community Supported Agriculture) is a way for the food buying public to create a relationship with a farm and to receive a weekly basket of produce. By making a financial commitment to a farm, people become "members" (or "shareholders," or "subscribers") of the CSA. Most CSA farmers prefer that members pay for the season up-front, but some farmers will accept weekly or monthly payments. Some CSAs also require that members work a small number of hours on the farm during the growing season. A CSA season typically runs from late spring through early fall. The number of CSAs in the United States was estimated at 50 in 1990, and has since grown to over 2200.
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Comment by pan on July 14, 2009 at 8:14am
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The scorched earth "solution" to e coli outbreaks
Our tomato plants are doing very well. One of the two tomatillos looks great. We are going to have many cucumbers. The peppers and and the eggplant....not so much. Oh well, new property/first time planting - gotta see what grows and where. The akaline soil here is a bitch - hurts the skin when you work in it - we will just have to amend like crazy. Good thing we eat lots of produce so we produce a lot of compost.
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Comment by Cal on July 14, 2009 at 11:45am
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Interesting article Bo. Co-incidentally I am reading a book by the Berkley food guru they quote - Michale Pollan - called the Botany of Desire ... about "how plants have evolved to satisfy humankind's basic yearnings" - sweetness (apple), beauty(tulip), intoxication(marijuana) & control(potato).
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Comment by curt on July 14, 2009 at 3:21pm
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Cal, one small, hillarious parcel of memory from my past could suggest Pollan is right, although I would tend to think plants would target animals in general instead of only humans. Tomatos. Mmm, lucious, red, juicy and tastey. Can we destroy the continuation of the life of a tomato by eating it? Not if we do as a bear does. You know, "does a bear xxxx in the woods?" We used to xxxx in the woods. Some still do. My brother Chris did after eating a xxxxload of tomatos. He put a big, flat rock over his heap to keep others from stepping in it. One year later, we found a group of tomato plants on the same spot, growing from under that rock. This was no garden area but the soil may have been perfect for the tomato plants. Thus, my brother was "used" as a means of transportation. Not bad, eh?
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Comment by Mark on July 14, 2009 at 5:17pm
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Yup, that was the deal. In return for free food, we were supposed to propagate plants by depositing their seeds, along with a handy packet of fertilizer, where they'd grow.
One of the first steps in civilizing (domesticating) us, is to cut us off from our food supply, so that we'll be dependent upon our masters/owners. So instead of being allowed to propagate seeds, we are only allowed to add to global pollution.
Yes, there are some composting toilets, but many areas either don't allow them or you have to be well-connected and wealthy to get a permit.
Indigenous peoples still xxxx in the woods, or the jungle as the case may be, but the few surviving remnants are under constant attack. Natural habitats with free people have been almost totally eradicated. And the civilized genocidaires are completely convinced that their destructiveness is progress, development, and inevitable. Only a savage would xxxx in the woods--civilized people use toilets that flush to the ocean where land-based food plants cannot grow. Then the more enlightened among them buy soil, seeds, and fertilizers, and make strenuous attempts to accomplish what was meant to be an effortless process of biological perpetuation.
Progress is genocide. Development is destruction. Civilization is slavery. And science is the art of taking things out of context so as to misunderstand them better.
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All goes back to the development of (agri)culture.
Farming, instead of foraging, for food allows for excess food to be produced, allowing for concentrated masses of useless eaters who don't directly produce their own food in cities. Dense populations in small areas cannot xxxx in the woods (even if there still are woods in the cities) without overfertilizing the area and spreading disease.
(Agri)culture also led to the development of the amassing of wealth and status. Nomad cultures prize those things that are useful and light - the wealth of a nomad might be best measured in horses - (agri)culture is non-moving by design, the amassing of stuff (first grains, then gold) is possible.
The class system comes into play....in a nomadic culture being a shaman is an extra burden on top of all of the other stuff you have to do, in (agri)culture being a priest means you get first pick on all those grains and livestock that are sacrificed "to the gods".
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Just dug up my very first potatoes--I'm a proud papa de papas! They're the roundish red-skinned kind and absolutely gorgeous--if I had a camera I'd post a picture. That means the other plants are ready to be dug up whenever I want them. But my new ones were just planted so I'm going to have to plant more frequently if I want potatoes year round. And I do!
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Planted an avocado and some cucumbers, radishes, onions, beans, peas, chives, broccoli, parsley, and brussels sprouts today. Just one container of each. Gotta start some more carrots. I started three more potato plants last week, but only one of them is growing fast. The other two are taking their time, which is a good thing, so I'll have some sooner and some later. None of my tomatoes are ripe yet, but the biggest ones should be ripe soon and there are lots of smaller ones coming along. I've got one large and four small containers of mixed salad greens and they're an endless cornucopia--snip off a salad's worth every day and they never seem to diminish. They were hard getting started--water them too hard and they get knocked right over when they're small, and they have to be covered with cheesecloth at first to protect them from the sun and from insects and birds, but once they're established they don't quit.
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Our garden is slowly but surely headed for (a) Fall. Today was my last work day for a short while, so I'll have time to take in the remainder of the haverst, what little there is to harvest. Tomatos are still going strong. Potatos are out of the ground. I'm thinking we still have time to turn the soil and plant winter salads. I can also begin drawing visualisations of my idea of a raised garden bed and try to get approval for that before purchasing the material. We have a tree and two bushes which need to be removed or relocated.
Garden Girl sent me a note to check this out;
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This summer has been off the record stuff - more rainfall then ever, cooler temperatures - not sure how the Fall will be and when we get our first hard frost.
Five huge tomato bushes are full of fruit, two tomatillos that look very healthy but - as yet - no fruit. Too many cucumber plants (next year less and more variety). A couple of the eggplants and peppers look OK.
The pear and the apple - which haven't been pruned for years - put out huge amounts of fruit but most of it fell without reaching maturity. Hopefully I will have enough for a nice batch of Peary/Cider. Then we prune.
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