Am in West London, UK. Just started growing food, got a small greenhouse and lots of containers to grow in. I am concerned about constant chemtrailing blocking the sun and raining down nasties including Aluminium and graphene onto what we grow, but it is in all the store bought stuff anyway. We bought a water distiller that takes hours to make 5 litres so electricity usage is up too! However you are absolutely right to highlight that we all need to grow what we can.
I've been exploring this- and not with a green thumb so much as the desire to explore (the science geek in me): some things
1. your distiller puts off heat and can be used in your green house to bridge cold nights and increase sprouting temperatures;
2. paint your pots black on the outside and put down black pails with water as heat sinks; you can use so many things as 'containers' by poking holes in (yogurt etc.)
3. shrubs can be replaced with fruiting shrubs, grass with productive herbs, fruiting ground covers; tree cover can be replaced with fruiting trees. fruiting vines on fences. start sweet potato slips and slip them everywhere (parks etc). stress one plant to produce seeds. save and share seeds. I tried winter sowing.
4. I use an instapot on 45 minute settings and run broth with bones; drain and run it again. there's lots of collagen protein extracted for soups and rice; the bones are then soft (poultry) and can be crushed dried into a nice garden supplement or for you pets;
5. the bottoms of lettuce cabbage bok choi leeks all regrow bottom third but then you can eat the outside of that, you just need the central stock. really fast generation unbelievabl. the tops of beets are biannual will regrow and produce seeds; the tops of carrots regrow and you can eat them in salads etc. leaks over winter. i started seeds in the late fall winter (carrots and strangely are coming up now)
7. learn foraging. the kids and I have been enjoying this over the last 2 years more as learning then food sustenance.
But my favourites: lamb quarters; purslane (which has omega 3s); right now garlic mustard which i cook in soups, pastas, quiche, anything hot to reduce like spinach because oxalate. There's so much of it you can dry as a powder for winter smoothies. dandelion needs boiling twice ie boil drain boil again to eat. the flowers are EXCELLENT dipped in batter and fried. KIDS AND I NOW JUST CAN'T WAIT FOR THEM TO COME UP. total treat. delicious. I add cinnamon to the batter; chopped banana peel eggs shells finely chopped and coffee grounds (nitrogen) make a complete fertilizer- my tomatoes love it. wood ash is good for rooting propagation and root crops. I store this info and explore with it. teach it to the kids. what I think is teaching cooking and growing their own food is never useless and makes them down to earth even though we are city dwellers. If I'm wrong about what I'm seeing, or we manage to regain political footing to reverse some of what I'm seeing, then I've taught the kids something. Plus we now love our garden. BUT WHAT MOVEMENT, BONA FIDE MOVEMENT, CHOOSES FOOD PRODUCTION AS THE THING TO LIMIT IN PURSUIT OF 'REDUCING' THE POSSIBILITY OF HUMAN SUFFERING FOR ANOTHER CAUSE. it's like recommending we cut off your foot as the best method to save your hand. IT IS SO ASSININE.
one thing I was thinking about. the kids like to entertain each other with riddles. My oldest daughter repeated one from a book today: WHAT IS SO FRAGILE ONE WORD WILL BREACK IT? the answer. SILENCE. think on that. the censorship they install is FRAGILE and words are our power. thank-you for being a reader from so very far away!
That sounds like a nightmare simulation game. It seems that they do these simulations to predict the outcomes. Yet, actually these events or planned and orchestrated for our convenience and of course our pain. I don't trust these people. I try to do my best to tell others.
Well they are moving fast and furious and at some point even the most die hard (sic) adherents to the narrative will have to start putting 2 and 2 together. Thank you for reading.
Your welcome. I am in a long process of trying to learn as much as I can. I am using as many resources as possible. I am also using logic and critical thinking to discern this information.
Am in West London, UK. Just started growing food, got a small greenhouse and lots of containers to grow in. I am concerned about constant chemtrailing blocking the sun and raining down nasties including Aluminium and graphene onto what we grow, but it is in all the store bought stuff anyway. We bought a water distiller that takes hours to make 5 litres so electricity usage is up too! However you are absolutely right to highlight that we all need to grow what we can.
I've been exploring this- and not with a green thumb so much as the desire to explore (the science geek in me): some things
1. your distiller puts off heat and can be used in your green house to bridge cold nights and increase sprouting temperatures;
2. paint your pots black on the outside and put down black pails with water as heat sinks; you can use so many things as 'containers' by poking holes in (yogurt etc.)
3. shrubs can be replaced with fruiting shrubs, grass with productive herbs, fruiting ground covers; tree cover can be replaced with fruiting trees. fruiting vines on fences. start sweet potato slips and slip them everywhere (parks etc). stress one plant to produce seeds. save and share seeds. I tried winter sowing.
4. I use an instapot on 45 minute settings and run broth with bones; drain and run it again. there's lots of collagen protein extracted for soups and rice; the bones are then soft (poultry) and can be crushed dried into a nice garden supplement or for you pets;
5. the bottoms of lettuce cabbage bok choi leeks all regrow bottom third but then you can eat the outside of that, you just need the central stock. really fast generation unbelievabl. the tops of beets are biannual will regrow and produce seeds; the tops of carrots regrow and you can eat them in salads etc. leaks over winter. i started seeds in the late fall winter (carrots and strangely are coming up now)
7. learn foraging. the kids and I have been enjoying this over the last 2 years more as learning then food sustenance.
But my favourites: lamb quarters; purslane (which has omega 3s); right now garlic mustard which i cook in soups, pastas, quiche, anything hot to reduce like spinach because oxalate. There's so much of it you can dry as a powder for winter smoothies. dandelion needs boiling twice ie boil drain boil again to eat. the flowers are EXCELLENT dipped in batter and fried. KIDS AND I NOW JUST CAN'T WAIT FOR THEM TO COME UP. total treat. delicious. I add cinnamon to the batter; chopped banana peel eggs shells finely chopped and coffee grounds (nitrogen) make a complete fertilizer- my tomatoes love it. wood ash is good for rooting propagation and root crops. I store this info and explore with it. teach it to the kids. what I think is teaching cooking and growing their own food is never useless and makes them down to earth even though we are city dwellers. If I'm wrong about what I'm seeing, or we manage to regain political footing to reverse some of what I'm seeing, then I've taught the kids something. Plus we now love our garden. BUT WHAT MOVEMENT, BONA FIDE MOVEMENT, CHOOSES FOOD PRODUCTION AS THE THING TO LIMIT IN PURSUIT OF 'REDUCING' THE POSSIBILITY OF HUMAN SUFFERING FOR ANOTHER CAUSE. it's like recommending we cut off your foot as the best method to save your hand. IT IS SO ASSININE.
one thing I was thinking about. the kids like to entertain each other with riddles. My oldest daughter repeated one from a book today: WHAT IS SO FRAGILE ONE WORD WILL BREACK IT? the answer. SILENCE. think on that. the censorship they install is FRAGILE and words are our power. thank-you for being a reader from so very far away!
Wow and thank you so much for your tips. Had collected a few like regenerating veg but some great new ones.
Thank-you keeping us informed.
That sounds like a nightmare simulation game. It seems that they do these simulations to predict the outcomes. Yet, actually these events or planned and orchestrated for our convenience and of course our pain. I don't trust these people. I try to do my best to tell others.
Well they are moving fast and furious and at some point even the most die hard (sic) adherents to the narrative will have to start putting 2 and 2 together. Thank you for reading.
Your welcome. I am in a long process of trying to learn as much as I can. I am using as many resources as possible. I am also using logic and critical thinking to discern this information.