Plants for a Future
A garden you can eat, a garden you can wear, a garden you can use as your medicines, a garden you can use as fuel and to build your houses... a garden full of purposes, and a garden you can enjoy as well - that you can sit in - and a garden that doesn't take up all your time. You can actually, for a few hours of work each week, produce the things that you need.
Ten years as a London bus drive drove Ken Fern to look for an alternative way of life. After a period of grindingly hard work growing annual crops on a small plot in Sari, he decided to investigate news ways of rearing plants which were not quite so labor intensive. Inspired by Robert Hart's ideas and the will to make their dreams a reality, Ken and his wife Addy finally settled on a 28 acre field in Cornwall, which is exposed to the full force of southwest winds blowing in from the Atlantic.
Did someone say weed
Inspiring story! Thanks for sharing.
Volume is way too low
Can anyone suggest some similar docs, or articles? I found this extremely interesting and would like to further research this and similar subjects.
This was really interesting. I wish the audio quality was a bit better... I had a lot of difficulty understanding details like which morning glory the first guy was talking about, etc.
I've got to try that tire tower thing.
I have so many ideas for a new type of society based on this way of life. In August I will begin planting my own food forrest in about six months!
damn I wish I was a vacuous male, but alas I like knowing and gaining knowledge. I'm inspired by people who do things and think, after all that's what I was taught to do in school. Food sovereignty is so foreign to the vast majority, yet it is one of the most simplistic courses of action towards health and long life. Why do you need a sandwich when you can have fresh raw and wonderful.
It goes to show you that true organics is truly a great way to grow crops. I also use an organic approach. I'll use the leaves in the fall and dig them into the soil, use the grass clippings during the summer to mulch they'll break down in a couple of weeks all the while use the kitchen scraps( i.e. coffee grounds, veg scraps, fish bones and e.t.c).And if I'm lucky enough to get some horse or cow manure I'll add that. Talk about 10 ft tomato plants I am not joking.
This is really inspiring. We just started growing some vegetables inside in our solarium when I had the idea to stack them to make better use of the space and the sunlight. Unfortunately in Quebec the summers are nice but relatively short. I wonder whether these methods would apply (half)inside as well.