Not to mention it's a way of using up excess seeds.
Gardening ping!
I love it. This is GREAT news. It will make it that much harder for the ruling class to starve us into submission.
What a fascinating idea! The farmer gets his weeds cleared with fewer chemicals, locals get more food, and perhaps a greater variety of local food too, for folks who are into that. People can be so creative when they are allowed to.
Bookmarked.
Good idea for the nation, since California seems hell-bent on continuing to redirect water away from what was once the best growing region on the planet.
Excellent news - thanks for posting!!
Note to China: Learn to feed yourselves. The food supply chain is changing AWAY from you.
I just do a small backyard garden but we finally got the vegetables planted and the flowers.
“But COVID-19 has the potential to change everything.”
I sure hope so! Even though I was hardly inconvenienced by all of this, as we live rural and are pretty much homebodies anyway, I would LOVE to see areas of Positive Change come from all of Mother Government’s soft, palatable, easy-to-swallow-in-small-bites brand of Tyranny!
Yes, I hear myself! I sound like a Hippie, but I’ve always been a Crunchy Conservative, and my Inner Libertarian Girl has been throwing a tantrum for weeks, now. ;)
Cross-Ping to the Weekly Garden Thread Gang.
Good read but, then I started looking at the site it came from.
Leftyville.
I REALLY love this idea, as I’m sure do others that grow their own and KNOW how to cook for themselves.
The ONLY problem I see is the one that already exists: when you give fresh fruits and vegetables to Food Pantries, they are usually the last things taken because no one knows how to cook from scratch!
We need someone at the distribution level assisting with that aspect of it.
Maybe a charity like Newman’s Own could fill that gap and process some of the food to be donated into packaged foods of some sort? Not Soylent Green...though that WOULD be an awesome marketing ploy.
OR - maybe it could be sold to that club you and I belong to, or to various CSAs in the area to supplement what they already grow? I’ve seen CSAs that add weekly cutting flowers and baked goods. People that belong to CSAs like to cook and know how to...but then, that’s not getting it into the hands of hungry people who don’t/can’t/won’t cook.
HELP!
Other experimental farms were working on zero-till production of crops, to reduce the cost per acre growing corn and other staples.
There should be a law that every farm may have a farm stand out front by the road with cute farm kids selling lots of fresh farm stuff; and a gallows behind the barn for any politicians that enact regulations against farm stands.
The return of truck farming...
This pandemic and the resulting shutdowns should be eye-openers for weaknesses in our markets and infrastructure.
Pharma, medical equipment, replacement parts for essential equipment, food, etc. All of these need series study, as most of the pre-COVID-19 emergency plans fell short.
Of course, we will likely soon slide back into our ‘normal’ complacency — until the next earth-shattering event.
With all the farmland just in the Southern states alone, the whole nation could be fed. Tomatoes, potatoes, beans, squash, rice, lettuce, peanuts, cantaloupes, and much more!
American flexibility and willingness to change has always been a major key to our success in both civilian and military life.
The democrats are trying to destroy California’s central valley farmers so the insiders can buy up land cheap for the train to nowhere.
Mr. Cannon’s chaos garden sounds like what I have suggested to my wife more than once as a “Darwin garden”. Just mix a lot of seeds, strew them broadcast, water when you happen to think of it, and see what happens.
We garden the regular way each year.
Missouri; cattle, corn, soy for the most part yet most anything will grow somewhere in the State, aside from citrus.