Survive - One Family In California Grows 6,000 Pounds Of Produce On Just 1/10th Of An Acre

The American Dream ^ | 3-3-2011

[bgill]

Hydroponics. You can grow *anything*. Tomatoes, orchids, or bud.

The river had washed under our river wall so granny planted her tomatoes down there. The roots grew down to the river water and omg what taste delights. However, years later we're now losing the wall and land is washing away because we can't afford the outrageous cost to fix it. If only granny had fixed the wall at the time instead of encouraging her tomatoes.

[bgill]

I agree. They are artificially raising prices.

Agreed, they have raised the price they charge the customer in advance of any price hike they might have in the future.

[dragnet2]

You must be hard of reading. I never said they were bad people or that being self sufficient was bad.

WTF were you implying below then?

Yes, they are a bunch of hippies trying to sell their “story” and a bunch of t-shirts.

Then ya bull sh*t again telling me how bad the hippies in the old days were.....

These people are extremely self sufficient, and you have done nothing but attempt to discredit them and then you deny it.

I'll take them over you any day!

To be honest, the character of spiteful dishonest people like you makes me recoil...

[bgill]

Works great until they turn off the water.

Also, wasn't the big bad government going to shut down the local farmers' markets with regulations?

[dfwgator]

Also, wasn't the big bad government going to shut down the local farmers' markets with regulations?

"Death to the Kulaks!"

[FrogMom]

Yes, it’s pretty much Mel’s mix, but if you buy the components and mix it yourself, it’s about 1/3 the cost. Look around, price check! It wasn’t cheap, as it was, but we can use these boxes pretty much forever, if amended with compost annually.

Getting a compost barrel this year. FrogDad also said he’d put me in four more beds, these will be 4’ X 12 ‘. Our postage stamp-sized backyard will then be full.

I believe Mel’s mix uses vermiculite in there, as well.

[dragnet2]

they’ve managed to trademark a long-used term (freely used long before they trademarked it), “urban homesteading” and are bullying websites left and right

Wow...They sound like capitalist!

Get a rope!

[Poincare]

Coleman quotes Jefferson something to the effect that America needs to have at least 75 percent of the populace able to feed itself to prevent tyranny. We got work to do.

[Dr. Sheldon Cooper]

Water shortages and rising fuel prices are directly related to Ethanol being shoved down our gas tanks.

Actually, Barry's allergy to American energy independence and his affinity for paying petro-jizzya to his masters in Saudi Arabia have more to do with the spiking price of crude and everything that uses it (which is everything).

[metmom]

ping

[SVTCobra03]

Aquaponics is a better solution.

[familyop]

"Yes, growing your own food always sounds good. However, not everyone lives in sunny California and has trillion dollar Federal water projects to provide their water."

Oh, no! They're watering a 10th of an acre! Our earth is doomed!

My environment for gardening is the roughest in the USA (over 9,000 ft. elev., temp. fluctuations up to 50 degrees, F in a day, swings below -35 F this winter, 110 mph wind load, about 12 inches of precip. (snow) per year,...). Over 100 years ago, people were growing just about everything in gardening here. Where there's a will and willingness to work, there's a way. And yes, I've done ag. back your way, where it's easy for anyone. Here, it's doable for anyone who's not sick, lame and lazy.

[familyop]

"Also, wasn't the big bad government going to shut down the local farmers' markets with regulations?"

They didn't. It was passed with the Tester Amendment, which exempts small farms selling to locals and local businesses up to a pretty good size.

US: 1
Global ag. business commie, anti-competition effort: 0.

[diamond6]

Thanks for taking the time to share that info. I am most grateful!

[deport]

1/10th of an acre is about 4326 sq. ft. That’s just over a 65’ X 65’ plot or lot size. As they’ve done they have utilized the space judiciously along with growing upwards also. Nice approach and provides for produce to sell or swap for types of things they don’t have room to grow.

[GOPsterinMA]

The farmers have been bought off, the Rats refuse to allow drilling of any sort.

But inflation is nil, right?

People need to wake up and see what going on. Or are they too stupid to connect the dots? Public education in action, perhaps?

[SunkenCiv]

All they’d need is potato plants and zucchini plants. ;’) Thanks metmom. I hope there’s a renaissance in home food preservation, that’s usually where the selling gets hard for new generations of back-to-the-land young couples.

[SunkenCiv]

• The Bum Rap on Biofuels
• Campaign to vilify ethanol revealed

Once again, this has nothing to do with growing corn and using it to make ethanol.

But if it did, it wouldn't be anyone's effin' business but the grower.

they grow so much food that they are able to sell much of it to restaurants in the area.

But not to grocery stores?!? :') That's also nobody's biz but theirs.

[21twelve]

“...but I’d need another fence to keep the deer out of my next garden plot.”

Don’t view them as pests. Look at them as protein! Like one farmer I knew that would poach a deer when he needed to would say “Well, heck, I’ve been feeding him all his life - he’s more like one of the herd than a wild animal.” Doesn’t quite sit well with me - but when the SHTF those “rules” would become guidelines.

[metmom]

I can and freeze and have for years, since I was a teen and helped my mom with it.

If anyone has any questions about hot water bath canning, I’d be more than willing to share my expertise. I also pressure can but have less experience with that.