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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 curt on March 20, 2009 at 3:09am
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Even more people catching on to the idea.
As the train passed by a number of Schreber Gradens this morning, I was thinking to myself, these people will fight for their Schrebergartens, I know they will. These gardens are the LAST thing, the LAST piece of freedom they will ever let go.
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Seeds. Bio seeds? How can I be sure the seeds are not GM? Where can I get good seeds? Lots of offers here but where can I get seeds or plantlings for sweet potatoes, okra, black-eyed-peas, poke (polk)?
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Horse poo poo as fertilizer.
Keep a plastic baggy with you at all times. If you happen to happen upon a pile of horsey doo doo, grab bag it up and take it home. Put a lil bit in your watering jug....not too much. Let the rest dry. This way, you fertilze while watering. Pure & simple & 100% natural 2nd hand oats. No chemicals and no cancers as a result. Well, I aint seen no test that say it any other way.
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Comment by Cal on March 21, 2009 at 12:20pm
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Here's where to get seeds if you live in the Pacific North West - Territorial Seed Company. Looks like they ship some stuff internationally. Don't think I can afford the stuff with the ZARand/dollar exchange rate.
I'm reading a book by the founder of that seed company Steve Solomon called "Gardening when it counts" ... actually I think I've mentioned that before. He lives in Tasmania now & runs that Soil Health online library I referred to earlier. Been in contact with him by e-mail & sent him one of my books that he was looking for for his library. Nice man. Lots of good advice.
Horse poo - haven't stumbled over any lately, but I've decided to see if I can find a local farmer who'll drop off some cow poo for me. In the mean time I am still experimenting with making compost from dog poo which I have plenty of and grass clippings & newspaper. Steve Solomon reckons it's not enough just to compost plant material ... you need to add poo of one sort or another ...
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Comment by pan on March 22, 2009 at 8:23am
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Dog poo is not the best as the eat all sorts of crap - sometimes their own poop. As the old saying goes "garbage in, garbage out". Dogs eat anything and everything. Stick with vegetarian poop and, if at all possible organically fed.
In Missouri we changed clay with about 1/2 inch of top soil (you could have made pots and fired them in the kiln with the clay) into rich soil within three years by composting, organic chicken poop, and mulch.
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On Doggie Poo, my German wife (my partner) said this;
"that is the last thing you want on your Komposthaufen!"
She loves dogs, had a black German Shepherd with her when I met her. Hit didn't bite me...... that day but many times during the following years. Now get this, even Nero didn't like the stank of his own shit! And Nero was one hell of a dog.
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"Hit didn't bite me......" should read "he didn't bite me....."
Winter has returned to this area. It's C O L D cold. Will this stop me from sowing seeds? Hell no. Seeds are not thermometers.
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Well if anyone here can come up with a useful idea on what to do with a carrier bag for of doggy-doo every day apart from put it in the garbage or flush it down the toilet I'm all ears. In the meantime I'll continue with my experimental poo pile and maybe just not use it on the vegetable beds but put it at the bottom of holes I dig for trees & bushes. I've read about a little dog poo composting toilet here which I'm going to try out too.
I've got a load of goat bedding straw/manure arriving on Friday to use as a mulch for a new veggy bed - found a lady who lives on a farm at the edge of the town who specializes in strawberry jam, firewood and goats. Her son does carpentry on the farm & they use his sawdust for goat bedding. Hoping it will do well as a mulch for the cauliflower/cabbage patch I want to get going for the winter.
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Excusé moi for the interuption. Cal, I found you actually can compost doggy poo, just not for the veggie garden. Here are a few interesting sites to check out. I suggest you build your own using an oil barrel or large tin waste bin and bury it. Just an idea.
ftp://ftp-fc.sc.egov.usda.gov/AK/Publications/dogwastecomposting2.pdf
http://www.cityfarmer.org/petwaste.html
http://www.plantea.com/dog-waste-compost.htm
http://waste.greenventure.ca/pet-waste-composting
http://reducing-waste.suite101.com/article.cfm/how_to_build_your_own_pet_waste_composter
http://www.compostinfo.com/tutorial/DogWaste.htm
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Thanks Curt ...it's a good idea - that 3rd link you posted is the same one I've been reading ... just keeping my eye out for a suitable waste bin I can bury .... and yes I will keep it off my veggy patch. Sometimes (only sometimes -:)) having a man around the house would be jolly handy .... for things like digging holes to bury the waste bin. Today I found an good source of manure - the local abattoir - they said I can come & fetch anytime for free. So I'm planning an expedition there in the next week or so armed with a spade and a couple of large plastic bags. Hopefully I manage to get a reasonable amount carted back to my house without permanently stinking up my little station wagon.
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