Gardening

[RoseyCadaver]

People have been gardening for ages.It has been very crucial to our species as a whole,feeds us and our food.We have been gardening versus gathering food,that enabled us to stay out of harms way of older predators.It was and still is very important civilizations, and a couple decades it was rather promoted in communities to have a garden to feed yourself and your neighbors.Victory gardens were really big in WW1.Abundant of Victory gardens were promoted by government agriculture related groups.

So I have a few questions for you.Do you believe that if there were more community(or backyard) gardens around there would be a decrease in food banks?Do you think if garden promotion was successful hunger in America would go down?Do you think a garden would be better use of space then cosmetic lawns?Would you do it?Do you think other food prices would go down?

I personally think it could be one of the greatest projects we could do.I think it would aid fight hunger,I think it would fight obesity people would be more active, food prices are starting to skyrocket(especially organic),so I think this will help the prices of food would go down,less of a demand on the item.That's just me,a gardener from Arkansas :cool:.

[PerpetualImperfexion]

Its a good idea. The problem is that now a days people just aren't willing to work for something. Besides how would you make sure no one takes more than there fair share?

[RoseyCadaver]

Its a good idea. The problem is that now a days people just aren't willing to work for something. Besides how would you make sure no one takes more than there fair share?

Well the thing about fair share would be a problem,but I was more ore less thinking if we promoted medium sized community gardens and also support having one in your own back yard.I do live in Arkansas,a lot of people garden.Not a lot of people in my area,but I live in the suburbs/place right next to ghetto trailer park.So it would be very hard in our area to do.THere how ever in other cities were(I hate to say this)the people have better moral standards and do seem to care for each other.Which in those areas there are some community gardens.

[KylieEatWorld]

It's a lovely idea. But that's just it. It's an idea. It's like people like the idea of joining the Peace Corps and feeding people in New Guinea. It sounds wonderful but it's a shitload of work and they prefer regular showers.

[Unlucky_Leprechaun]

I think its a great idea as well, and you make a great point about feeding the homeless and filling the food banks. I think another issue is both parents are working now to make ends meet whereas in the past, there was at least one parent home to tend to the garden. I have relatives that still put out a garden and can and use their products throughout the year..and it saves them a lot.. a pkg of seeds/water/time/sweat and they enjoy it. Too bad we can't go back to simpler times for some things. I never heard of the community garden stuff..it was all individual families with their own gardens.

[RoseyCadaver]

It's a lovely idea. But that's just it. It's an idea. It's like people like the idea of joining the Peace Corps and feeding people in New Guinea. It sounds wonderful but it's a shitload of work and they prefer regular showers.

No it's not just an idea.Many people are starting to do this again(community garden).This has also been achieved in WW1 like said,Victory Gardens.Gardening doesn't mean you're going to another country and feed people over there,I'm talking about feeding ourselves.Not necessarily the homeless,that was just saying it could feed them if they have they want to give away.

[KylieEatWorld]

No it's not just an idea.Many people are starting to do this again(community garden).This has also been achieved in WW1 like said,Victory Gardens.Gardening doesn't mean you're going to another country and feed people over there,I'm talking about feeding ourselves.Not necessarily the homeless,that was just saying it could feed them if they have they want to give away.

But nobody is going to grow a garden. They work two jobs, they have kids to take care of, they don't know the first thing about gardening, they don't want to get dirt in their fingernails, carrots aren't pretty so they'll just plant a rosebush, they don't like eating vegetables, they'd rather look at funny pictures of cats on the internet. People will come up with every excuse possible to NOT do it unless they are paid or have a passion for it.

[Perseus]

First off, that was boring to read. Spice up your vocabulary, and don't say "I think" in every single sentence. And space your sentences. If you're notgoing to that, just don't use periods and commas. It obviously defeats the purpose and is the same as a run on sentence in respect to reading.

Anyway, I don't see how'd that people to feed people in a foreign land. Wouldn't you be doing that to feed yourself, not others?

[RoseyCadaver]

First off, that was boring to read. Spice up your vocabulary, and don't say "I think" in every single sentence. And space your sentences. If you're notgoing to that, just don't use periods and commas. It obviously defeats the purpose and is the same as a run on sentence in respect to reading.
I'm not one to indulge the intelligence mind with a stimulating conversation over the cultivation of vegetation :P.

Anyway, I don't see how'd that people to feed people in a foreign land.
Wouldn't you be doing that to feed yourself, not others?
I didn't say it would feed people in other countries.

Gardening doesn't mean you're going to another country and feed people over there,I'm talking about feeding ourselves

[Perseus]

I'm not one to indulge the intelligence mind with a stimulating conversation over the cultivation of vegetation :P.
Doesn't matter. Still shouldn't be boring to read.

I didn't say it would feed people in other countries.
Right, I can't read. :P But it still wouldn't be all that practical. I do not eat vegetables since I don't the taste of most. But I like salads. Moving on, it just wouldn't work. People are too busy to tend to a garden a lot. And what if the crop fails to yield? You'd be fucked.

[RoseyCadaver]

Doesn't matter. Still shouldn't be boring to read.
Better :P?

Right, I can't read. :P But it still wouldn't be all that practical. I do not eat vegetables since I don't the taste of most. But I like salads. Moving on, it just wouldn't work. People are too busy to tend to a garden a lot. And what if the crop fails to yield? You'd be fucked.

Well I think if people gardened and got there source of food from that,then there we a less of job demand.

Yes,if it did fail to yield food we'd be fucked.But I'm considering we make it a side hobby.Plus I don't think it would do too bad.I mean if we used our water on it(as in backyard garden)instead of having pretty grass it's harvest would be pretty good(and having seeds with good quality.
First off, that was boring to read. Spice up your vocabulary.


I also thought I say,I ran out of salt,or I would have :P .

[Perseus]

Better :P?
It...looks the same.


Well I think if people gardened and got there source of food from that,then there we a less of job demand.

Yes,if it did fail to yield food we'd be fucked.But I'm considering we make it a side hobby.Plus I don't think it would do too bad.I mean if we used our water on it(as in backyard garden)instead of having pretty grass it's harvest would be pretty good(and having seeds with good quality.
Even if it does yield, it will still go fallow after and a while, and I don't think most people have the land for crop rotation.

[RoseyCadaver]

It...looks the same.



Even if it does yield, it will still go fallow after and a while, and I don't think most people have the land for crop rotation.
Even though I'm all for tilled gardens and that jazz,I was thinking more of garden beds.http://www.transitionhonesdale.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/community_garden1.jpg

[Perseus]

Even though I'm all for tilled gardens and that jazz,I was thinking more of garden beds.image (http://www.transitionhonesdale.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/community_garden1.jpg)

Ah. I was thinking full fledged garden with shit everywhere.

[RoseyCadaver]

Ah. I was thinking full fledged garden with shit everywhere.

Nope,I know most people wouldn't do that :P.I think this would be a start though,a good one too.

[Iris]

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/dnainfo/miniature-tree-pit-farms-grow-inwood-142542939.html :)

[Unlucky_Leprechaun]

Even though I'm all for tilled gardens and that jazz,I was thinking more of garden beds.image (http://www.transitionhonesdale.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/community_garden1.jpg)

Interesting concept, especially for city types with very little land available to put out a garden.This can be a hobby.... great idea... Hmmmm, well now you just got to convince the masses !!! Good Luck on that....(people would rather get someone to do if for them that do it themselves for the most part...sad but true).

[Lawliet]

I've seen rooftop gardens in the city that I live in. I think it would be better suited for the suburbs in my area and could work. One of my previous teachers managed his own garden in his backyard and saved quite a bit of spending. I think with a dedicated group of people a community garden could be successful. It's just comes down to finding those people and regulating it.