We Can Feed The World

Posts like this need to be more visible. Glad I found it. Why not grow your own indoor garden? I'm looking into it myself. Featured now on the Sustainable Agriculture Channel.

http://current.com/topics/86293911_sustainable-agriculture/

Thanks!

Personally, I like the idea of a "Logan's Run" type system where you get a spot that turns black when you hit a certain age, then you're euthanised.

Kidding aside, there would be plenty of food if everyone just ate and, more importantly, wasted less. A couple things we all ought to do:

Eat locally: support your local economy AND generate less carbon emissions

Go veg: growing meat leads to deforestation AND wastes food that humans could eat

Kill potheads: they eat more food than they need because they have the munchies AND they keep bombarding this site with marijuana-related articles

I think this is a great idea. Whatever the surrounding issues, if this can work it will be highly beneficial. Especially in these current times. The fact of helping one another is an important aspect too. It's nice to see change in a postive light.

indoor greenhouses are the way forward.

the world has been growing top quality weed this way for years.

indoor gardening has been around forever for good reasons. Less need for pest control and easy to keep well fertilized. Why not? I want to feed my family from the garden, dont you?

Covelogibbs - this petition just came in and thought you would appreciate seeing it if you haven't already.

http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/t/1128/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=26714

"Educating Congress: Do Not Supress Organic and Small Farmers and Ranchers; Natural Food Products

Farmers Under Attack...

This urgent message is from our correspondent, Linn Cohen-Cole on February 17, 2009:

We have less than two weeks to stop the take over the farms and ranches.

H.R. 875 and S. 425

We need to rally people immediately.

The new administration is pushing new farm controls through Congress as fast as possible and have coordinated the bills so there will be no debate and the committee meetings are closed.

Transparency, change, undoing Bush's regulations, giving the public time to comment, grassroots anything? Our entire food system and thus our health is being decided without the public knowing and those who do know have zero access and the media is absent and they are moving at warp speed to sew this up.

Would you put these out, in this order, showing the article as you do so people are more likely to read it? They are imperfect but the closest I've come to explaining how the game is going to be played. No direct, frontal assault on organic farming but an insidious process of "infecting" organic farming...

Example: imagine Joel Salatin's wonderful organic farm under the direction of the USDA, with detailed instructions on what he must feed and when, how he must medically "treat" his animals and with what, what he must "spray" and when, ... you get the picture. These bills will industrialize all farms and insure the farmers are forced to buy chemicals and drugs. Organic is dead. As well as human control over the food supply. As well as health.

Schoolmarm approach to punishing farmers out of farming.
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Monsanto-and-the-Schoolmar-by-Linn-Cohen-Cole-0...

Bills being rushed through Congress, set to destroy organic farming.
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Monsanto-bills-being-rushe-by-Linn-Cohen-Cole-0...
Linn Cohen-Cole is a dedicated researcher and "Paul Revere" of health freedom. At her urging, we've set up an Action Item for you to send an unmistakable message to your representatives in the Senate and the House. We must educate Congress that you do not want organic and small farmers regulated out of existence. You do not want "Big Agra" regulations, perhaps necessary to protect the public when dealing with large scale agra business, applied to organic and small family farms and ranches or to natural and organic food products, including Dietary Supplements."

http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/t/1128/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=26714

Haven't you guys been to Disney World? That watermelon tree kicks butt.

That will help people in harsh and or changing climates feed themselves locally. Most intelligent city designers/architects understand part of a whole community includes agriculture within the city limits.
Some cities have started to incorporate fruit trees, edible gardens, vertical gardens and rooftop spaces to help restore "locally grown food". (we will always need our farmers - but factory style farms/ mono-crops are not the way to go).
Meanwhile, those of us with a bit of space and light (a balcony with some sun and veggies and herbs in boxes), would be wise to start gardening if you haven't already.
Headlines "Food Crisis" appear everyday. It doesn't need to be this way unless you give your power away to a corporate style factory farm long distances away.
The organic seeds we save today will perhaps be worth more than gold in the near future as companies like monsanto try to take over the world's food supplies (search Monsanto on this web site, there is plenty of information to be had).
Learning to grow healthy vibrant fresh food is an invaluable tool in today's unpredictable world - and if you have lost your job recently, growing food is entertaining, releases stress, and is a positive contribution to the family or circle of friends.

For encouragement if you are thinking "its too hard" or "I don't have the space" - I grow beautiful tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers in five gallon tubs recycled from the local nursery, carrots are grown in 12 inch boxes.... and I grow many varieties of herbs and veggies based on the "Square Foot Garden" method (with a few modifications here and there) - it is the best food I have ever eaten. This is a very easy technique to maximize the use of your space with very little water needed. Some of my neighbors have started doing the same thing.

During WW2 Americans started victory gardens. With the current global crisis this seems like a smart thing to do. I'm going to look at this in detail.