Does anybody here want to talk about what we THINK we know about agriculture and maybe what the Great Awakening COULD mean for food production in the future?
I believe the Great Awakening will apply to far more than politics and its nice to discuss other things from our unique perspective 🐸
Well I can tell you that I am in my second year of true gardening. In the past I grew tomatoes or cucumbers in a patio pot for the fun of it. Now I garden for necessity and oh, it's fun too. Now that my second true garden is producing I've learned a few things...by trial and error.
Home gardens don't take as much water as I thought. I was over watering and leaves were turning yellow. Stopped over watering and they turned green again. Lesson: plants are resilient.
Home gardens produce more than myself/my family can consume at one time. I've picked up canning and learned which things freeze the best. Over abundance is a blessing because...
I have more to give away and trade with. For example, my neighbor down the lane raises chickens. I took him a bag full of squash and green beans and he gave me 2 dozen eggs. Barter system at it's finest.
My great awakening has come in many forms. But I think gardening, living off the land and resources on my own property will become a major part of how we live in the future. It's a lot of work but it is so very satisfying to pick a squash from a plant that I started in my green house from a tiny little seed, nurtured in a garden, and put upon my family's dinner table.
That's awesome! Keep at it! It's so satisfying to eat food that you've grown! And way more nutritious!
Have you looked into permaculture/ regenerative agriculture?
I super enjoy learning about companion planting, specifically fruit tree guilds.
A good example of companion planting that most people are familiar with is the Native American Three Sisters (Corn for food and stalks for beans to grow vertically, Beans for food and to fix the soil nitrogen to fertilize for next season, Squash for food and to cover the soil and protect the soil biology and the other crops from pests. You would THINK that the plants would compete but they actually help each other produce ~30% greater yeilds.
We THINK our plants belong in tidy rows but nature crams things in and mixes it all together. Maybe gardens COULD be more chaotic.
I garden in a potager style it’s Flowers herbs and veggies with winding paths and some geometric raised beds. Gets messy by August but it’s also abundant and pretty.
That's great! Who cares about a mess when you're giving away more food than your friends and family can eat?
How are you handling fertilization? Do you have areas that produce heavily and need nutrient replenishment? Or are crops that come off the land mixed in well enough with soil building and pollinator plants that you can let nature handle it?
I don’t til. I use organic fertilizers like fish emulsion, and compost and compost tea. Sometimes Epsom salt. I always plant with compost and bone meal in the planting hole. Sometimes stuff dies. I try again.
That's frigging sweet! No till organic is definitely the way forward.
I think people are embracing their green thumbs at a record rate these days. And not just because we are all hearing about these manufactured food shortages. I think it's deeper than that. I've been growing seedlings and taking my extra heirloom plants to give away at the office building I work at for 4 years now. Lots of people now ask me in Spring when the tomato and pepper plants are coming. Most of them had no previous gardening experience, but they put the plants in and saw how easy it really is and now many of them have now put in raised beds or container gardens and are starting their own seedlings. Like me, they didn't know until they tried it that the effort isn't huge and the rewards are abundant.
Another example, one of the women in the building has a teenage son who became extremely anxiety prone during COVID. He's trying to battle his way back from agoraphobia. Guess what is helping him do that? Plants! He loves growing plants. His mom lures him out of the house with trips to places where he can buy more plants. I sent a bunch of plants home with his mom this week and she reports that he was out in the backyard tilling up more of their lawn for them. He's a teenage boy! I was so happy to hear about his excitement about gardening and plants. Gives me hope.
Plants are amazing! And there's research (I don't have sauce, sorry) that shows simply putting your hands in contact with the soil microbiology can reduce stress and anxiety! Getting barefoot on the dirt in the summertime always does help me feel centered.
I hear what you're saying about young people getting into farming/ gardening...
I've been planning my permaculture homestead for 2 years now and making moves towards leaving the suburbs for more land.
Every single one of my "city" friends I've explained all my plans for a working regenerative agriculture farmstead lights up like they've finally seen an option for a way of life away from population centers and out of the matrix; which is how I felt when I started learning about it.
So funny that you mention the benefits of being barefoot in the dirt and getting hands in the soil. I just got out of the shower because I had spent the 2-1/2 hours from 6:30 pm to 9 pm (ran out of daylight!) putting the last of my peppers in the garden along with relocating 4 volunteer watermelons I came across in the process. (I've got 7 mystery watermelons this year due to volunteers! I have a pretty good suspicion of what they have to be based on last year's garden, but it will be fun to watch them grow and find out for sure. Last year I did seven watermelon varieties. This year only three. Should be fun to see the mystery melons as they grow.) And I have always gone barefoot in the garden and I don't wear garden gloves even though I know I should. Sometimes I drag my hiney out to the garden feeling tired, but almost as soon as I'm digging, putting in plants, I feel energized. I lose all track of time out in the garden.
The world would be a very different place if the majority of people in it grew plants of some sort.
Good luck on your homestead! Blessings to you and yours. :)
Nice!
I believe in the power of our connection to nature (therefore, God.) We've gotten away from some of the simplest ways to improve our lives all because of the matrix and the web of lies it requires.
Blessings returned. Enjoy your garden this summer!
I know that Don Jr. has talked about shifting to local food production by small farmers. It would be an explosion of farmer's markets. First post by the way, glad to be here.
Welcome, fren.
We absolutely need to take back our food freedom!
You can take hard stances when you know they can't take away your food.
First we stop needing them for food then we stop paying them the taxes. Ultra hard stand.
Imagine if your grocery stores produce section was just a big farmers market
It would be the opposite of what they want: criminal charges for growing your own food, no organic food, no livestock, no hunting, no herbal supplements, nothing natural and everything under control.
Check this out:
https://youtu.be/6rPPUmStKQ4
Wow! I had never heard of this before. I thought mulch was the red or brown stuff I bought from the box store! Can't wait to try it!
Amazing stuff, isn't it?
Now you're speaking my language!
I've been telling all my friends for like 2 years now that we're going back to Eden!
God Wins!
I will most definitely be checking that video out when I have time!
Thanks, fren.
It means when we get through this, we will be washing aluminum foil and using mason jars for everything. Not to mention, we will have our own Victory gardens.
when we get thru this we will be lucky to have aluminum foil and lids for those mason jars. Been growing food for 50 yrs. learn Ed to grow more than I need but not too much to take care of. And remember... On legacy open pollinated varieties will produce viable seed.
If you can order reusable lids made in America. Takes a while to get them. I have 300. Haven’t used them yet. Watched videos about them.
If everyone in my village had a fruit tree or two and every other one of us a garden we could supply all our summer fresh food to each other by barter. I’d grow for the elderly and come get the fruit from their trees and process it for winter.
Community gardens would be a great way to keep us alive. The village should give us space at the village hall where they pay to mow the grass.
Then leave the extra out on a cart free for anyone. Food should be shared. There’s so much and it’s a joy to grow it!
The cabal absolutely does not want you to have communal gardens.
The history books are filled with stories of communal cultures that shared responsibility for the well being if everyone being destroyed by [insert cabal controlled entity here] and replaced with grain agriculture.
Grain is convient for "lords" because they can force everyone to grow it with swords and whips and then store it away behind a big wall and give it back one loaf of bread at a time.
Food freedom is definitely something they don't want us to have... ... so we should strive for it!
Well said!
I have two 50 sqft plots I grow various veggies and grain on. It’s enough for me and my family for 6 months supplemented with hunting, fishing my chickens and foraging. But if you need to live off just the garden you’ll need 1-2 acres and the amount of work would be too much for one- two people so the community garden is where it’s at. There are two in town here that do well.
Very nice. I'm dreaming if the day I can run a few chicken tractors on pasture for meat and a flock of laying hens.
I agree that the communal effort would get everyone involved further ahead. Too much work for one person. That's why we need to talk about food freedom as much as we talk about the political stuff!
Yes, I would like to get into a Co-Op here in Pennsylvania. Or sign a contract with a local farm promising I'd pay a monthly fee to support them.
Search around! The farms are out there! There's a regenerative cattle farmer in PA named Russ Wilson you could check our on YouTube or on his website. He raises pastured (never feed-lot or confinement barn) grass fed cattle and sheep.
I believe they offer other products as well.
Thank you for the direction. I have been looking a little but not enough. There is one who delivers to this area as well; they don't have a great selection. I'll check him out.
Absolutely!
I think we can all agree local food is better than not.
The permaculture/ regenerative agriculture people are taking "organic" to the next level... no chemicals (even certified organic ones) or inputs of any kind if they can help it. No grain for grass eating animals. That kind of thing. It's way better for the planet than "conventional agriculture."
But the pastured meat waa traditionally very expensive compared to the grocery store (feed-lot/ barn grain fed) meat.
Thanks to Q and Devolution the grocery store crap is getting so expensive you might as well by the grass fed stuff.
My family buys a lot of produce at local food auctions and process it for storage. It's not all garenteed organic but it's cheaper and still better than the grocery.
You guys are awesome! You've got me excited and filled with hope!
Sorry if I come off as a know it all. I just get super stoked to talk about fixing God's planet!
I’ve been on the edible landscaping kick for 6 years this year. Fruit bushes are really producing now.
Except blueberries I stink at blueberries.
Blueberries do best in a previous fire area.
Thanks for the tip!
Perhaps some biochar in blueberry holes would be a good boost for them?!
Maybe, I haven't researched it as I know where to pick some already, if I want them. 😄
I've been making plans for 2 years. Just this spring ordered a couple dozen perennial fruits trees/ shrubs/ vines to plant out.
It's difficult because I still love in the suburbs but I'm looking for land in the country.
I'm trying to balance decking put my yard and saving for my future yard.
I can feel God telling me to "bloom where I'm planted" so I went for it this spring.
Gonna get a greenhouse going and order some root stock so I can propogate some of these expensive cultivars for my friends and family.
There was a movie about a fellow who took in a lot of kids, like 100 over the years.(I believe in Africa?). they planted enough trees and things that they actually created their own micro climate. I've always wondered why more dry places don't plant more things. I'm bad at names and such, sorry.
I motivated about 10 people in my area to get their garden going after seeing the huge success of my own. Very great feeling to be at work or out and about talking about the various things we're growing and what materials and methods being used.
That's so cool! Well done! I hope to be an inspiration to all my friends and family!
The most encouraging thing I've found is that I can put thing just about anywhere and God made it so they grow! If I get a good crop or not is another matter. 😄 One year, having other things happening, I had a roll of mulch paper that I just laid out on the ground, put limited soil down and planted potatoes on it. Mounded as needed. It wasn't a bumper crop, but I grew potatoes!
It really is amazing how life finds a way isn't it?
It's hilarious to watch life find a way knowing good and well Satan and his idiots hate it so much!
And a food garden is the best way to laugh in the face of evil!
P.s. My potatoes had an aphid infestation earlier on but I think things are under control now!
Howdy guys! How's everyone's gardens doing?