You can't Eat Money!

[Glennjeff]

That was a really usefull, practical post gurusid. Thankyou.

My wife and I have been working on our eighth acre inner city farm for nearly 20 years. We sarted out getting virtually no produce and killing most plants. In the last couple of years we have had extended periods of having to give food away to neighbours and freinds.

We are very pleased with ourselves now that we can often say “Everthing in this meal was grown in our backyard”

Our best producers are;

Fish, eggs, tomatoes, corn, brocolli, cauliflower, cabbage, carrot, pasnip, capsicum, chilli, silverbeet, spinach, pasley, sage, rosemary, thyme, oregano, lemon, lime, mandarin, tangello, apple, plum, pear, chinese greens, cucumbers, zuchini, mulberry, mango, canteloupe, pumpkin, onion, beetroot, radish.

They taste so much better than industrial produce also.

[gurusid]

Hi Glennjef,

Thanks, glad you liked it. If you have any photos of your project it would be great to share them – if you can. I have put a little presentation on google docs which I think people should be able to access:
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0Bx5lxN1pdGX3UTdwNktwNVY0RW8/edit?usp=sharing

It show what can be done in a very urban environment. Also I think its important for many people not to get too ambitious, though I couldn’t grow enough to be anywhere near self sufficient, what I did grow was very nutritious and would have been expensive to buy, such as the garlic. Also making preserves such as chutneys which did last me through the year also saved in money terms. But that is the key here, it not about money in so much as it is about reconnecting with your food supply that which nourishes us an allows us to even think about things like money in the first place! Sorry I know I’m preaching to the converted here, but hopefully if others not so converted read this they might be encouraged to give it a go.

L,
Sid.

[jal]

… its no good reading a few books and having an idea about it if you can’t put it into practice.

Yep!

Start somewhere.

Keep a cactus alive.

[gurusid]

Hi Jal,

Start somewhere.

Keep a cactus alive

Peyote by any chance?
Perfect example of a once sacred plant used sustainably for thousands of years now being driven to extinction by idiots no doubt out to make a fast buck. :dry:

L,
Sid.

[Glennjeff]

Sid,

I’ll put something together in the way of photos, vids and walkthroughs. It will take a few months as we are at the end of our extreme hot summer when everything (except the trees) are exhasted. I’ll document our Autumn planting and drop it here in a few.

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