Who will be growing our food in 20 years?

Pops

Ludi is right, if you have trees, can grow mushrooms and can get some sun you can make raised beds with compost from the carbon on the place.

Add some green and a little N to start and pile it rows and there are your raised beds.

Rinse, repeat.
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careinke

I'm not sure where to post this picture, but this thread looked like a good place. This is an old picture I found of harvesting our wheat lands in Athena Oregon in the late 1800's (pre Oil). Maybe the future will look like this too.

My understanding was the biggest risk at the time was a field fire. Sorry I can't seem to turn the pic in photo bucket.

Cliff (Start a rEVOLution, grow a garden)

Pops

Did you ever find the book I mentioned a while back?
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careinke

Not yet, I could not find it in our local library. Do you know the full title?
Cliff

Pops

I was amazed, I found it here.
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careinke

I found and orded it through the county library system. Thanks!

Cliff

madison · Heavy Crude Joined: Mar 12, 2005 Posts: 255

In my opinion, we will each be using our yard to grow about half of our food supply - packing as much into the space as possible. We will be utilizing every "tool" in our bag - permaculture, edible forest gardening, small scale orcharding, raised bed grain raising adn gardens, perennials and small scale livestock (rabbits, chickens, goats, aquaculture ponds). In addition, we will be using "public space" - city parks, empty lots, golf courses etc for larger crops, such as potatoes, corn and grains. Small farms around the perimeter of the towns will raise grains, calorie crops (again, potatoes, carrots, garlic, beets etc) and larger livestock (cattle) and hay and forage crops. Each household will have to grow as much as it can and work with farmers and cooperatives to grow the main calorie crops (potatoes and grain and corns). We will be eating alot lower on the food chain, mostly vegetarian dishes, and using meat as a seasoning (think of most ethnic foods and you will see meat is secondary to grains and vegetables - like pizza for example - a large grain filled with vegetables with meat for flavoring).

If each home worked their land like these folks, and supported local farmers and used community lots, we'd be alot better off.

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cybergrip · Coal Joined: May 26, 2008 Posts: 1

We will need to understand how to become more self sufficient. We are trying to get people together with the necessary skills to create a template for the rest of us. We need to have spice walls and other hydroponic methods.

We can create, most if not all of our own food. Natural and organic.

We will sacrifice convenience, and in some cases, taste.