That last bit saying everyone needs to grow a little of everything and trade amongst the community is on point! That’s how you build resilient and healthy communities. We would still need large scale ag in order to feed everyone properly, but say only 20% of all our food sources come from our local communities and small scale farms- that would make a massive difference in everyone’s wellbeing.
I started a backyard garden during Covid and I haven’t looked back since! I’ve since added over 15 fruit trees and two hydroponic coffee plants. These stories are truly inspirational and I strongly encourage everyone to start some type of home garden. It really doesn’t require a lot of space. Truly therapeutic!
I tried!! I wanted a sanctuary for birds and butterflies, too. But everything I plant dies. :( I live in San Diego in the East part of the city. Any suggestions??
You can step it up and do better! Instead of selfishly growing things for yourself, why not share the trees and knowledge with your surrounding community ? Grow your circle from a dot to the globe. Thanks ahead of time for taking that consciousness shift seriously
@@kayscarpetta5502 . Better spoil and irrigation? I'm in the bay area and seems to have the same problem, until I did raised beds and mixed my own soil, plus have more control with watering.
@@kayscarpetta5502 Yes! If you don't already know of Kevin Espiritu, follow his RUclips channel called Epic Gardening. He's in your area and has done amazing things with his suburban garden and business. He is fun to learn from because he has fantastic tips and a great smile.
@kayscarpetta5502 East part of the City Of San Diego? OR East San Diego County? It's a question because the border of the City Of San Diego reaches all the way to Mission Gorge near Santee. Throughout San Diego County (and City), gardening is quite possible. Hopefully, there are community garden organizations, nurseries that can help or direct you to those that can. In fact, the USDA (United States Department of Agriculture) has an office in every county in California. They will help you and put you in contact with Master Gardeners. Well, the USDA did that for me in San Diego and Orange Counties.
I want to walk downstairs and have a coffee shop and bakery a few steps away. It's so silly how Los Angeles bans from our neighborhoods the conveniences we need every day and restricts them to the noisy arterials where nobody wants to hang out.
IN MY SMALL L.A. BACKYARD - I have a Navel Orange, Meyer Lemon, Rio Red Grapefruit, Yellow Nectarine, Bacon Avocado, and Japanese Plum tree. I get hundreds of pieces of fruit a year. Not counting the vegetables I grow in between them. People are amazed when they see my backyard.
I've always found it nuts when someone has an acre of land and their goal is to only have pretty grass. I have an outside garden where I grow tomatoes, kale, swiss chard, etc., and just started doing a hydroponics garden this year. I had such a good cucumber harvest this year, I landed up giving 90% of it away to friends and family and 20 lbs of it to the local food bank.
@@dontbanmebrodontbanme5403 very nice! Was it easy to start the vertical garden? How much it cost to start the project? People are concerned about the electric bill running the tower. I would like to try it. I'm sure your local food bank appreciates your donations!
Even in more humid areas the temperature drop on heavily planted properties is staggering. It’s not just the shade, it’s the evaporative cooling effect as water molecules released by plants suck heat from the air as they phase from liquid to gas. I read that each large tree is like having a one ton chiller in your yard.
We did this in unincorporated Los Angeles county right in the OC border. We don’t host farm to table events but we host kids workshops for flowers and beneficial insects.
I proposed these ideas as community garden along with cooking classes in July during my recreational center interview, hopefully they are willing to give it a try
That is awesome. I believe the concept of neighbors growing assigned vegetables is either in New Zealand or Denmark and I love the concept!!!! 🌱👏🏼❤️🔥🌱
I dream of this in our neighborhood! I’m a backyard gardener- growing for the pollinators & ourselves. Just needing some chicken, but we compost via vermi-composting & loving it so far!
That’s what I was thinking! Especially when the water is grey water that would otherwise go to a treatment plant. I live in Canada, and we try and grow stuff in our backyard, but it just doesn’t produce much.
This is a phenomenal example of suburban home farming. Vegetable gardens can be planted almost anywhere that people live. I have always had a vegetable garden and an indoor garden. My pandemic project was turning a spare room into a Garden Room. We now grow the usual assortment of subsistence and fresh vegetables outdoors. Indoors we grow scallions, celery, herbs, greens, lettuce, cherry tomatoes, dwarf carrots, sugar snap peas, sweet potatoes, peppers, brocolli, cauliflower, beans, ginger, garlic, onions, various root vegetables, and cultivated mushrooms. This is done year-round, with succession planting, drip irrigation, vermiculture, composting, LED grow lights, sunny windows, shelving, a trellis system, and just a few hours a week.
Intensive small-scale farming is the most productive form of farming in the world, and it's not even close. It also provides jobs for the people that have been squeezed out of the service or high tech sector. Expensive large-scale plantation brings less production and $ per acre. The amount of capital to actually make a large-scale farming be as productive as small-scale garden-style farming is so large that most people cannot afford it anyway
You can grow intensively, and in a way that restores soil too --on a large scale. Look up restoration ag and Mark Shepard. He brought together some great concepts and combined them do that larger enterprises can convert how they grow food, manage land, build localized resiliency. It saves water, too. while increasing biomass. It's very efficient _and can be done very cheaply._ It reduces waste while increasing calories _and_ nutrition per acre.
It’s more productive per square meter yes, but it’s far less efficient than large scale agriculture. That’s why large scale will always win out unfortunately. I believe there’s ways to find a decent middle ground however. Agroforestry would be one example.
@@CampingforCool41 Current large scale is a losing game though. It's why universities have agriculture departments trying to give a dying model life support. Monoculture, annual-based, synthetic chemical doused, bare earth/fallow practices degrade soil and reduce usable water supply. We can grow a lot more food if we switch to a restorative ag model. It's the in-between that we need. Restorative ag uses polycropped, biome-appropriate food-producing trees, vines and shrubs that alternate between alleycropped perennials, pasture and annuals. It harvests rainwater to reduce irrigation expense. It builds soil and resiliency. It reduces start up costs compared to conventional ag, and you can start on poorer soil instead of struggling to start out on expensive, fertile land. Livestock manage weeds, pests and fertility instead of relying on soil-destroying synthetic chemical inputs. It produces more biomass and nutrition per acre per year than conventional ag as well, meaning more food/feed supply. More carbon is sequestered so soil is more fertile, restored and plants/harvests more resilient. It's wildlife friendly too...
Except if you don't grow enough that year or get hit by heat wave thay kills produce and can't sell but have people who are employed, they will be first to go.
@@malovina Heat waves are an issue if you've picked something and lack proper storage or you lack water. Plenty of rainwater harvesting possibilities in LA. Street stormwater runoff is great for fruit trees and nonetheless plants. Greywater (you must use salt-free soaps and detergents) is food for many of the plants. For food like lettuces, harvesting water to raingardens and large cisterns (for onsite use) works well. Mulching, avoiding bare soil practices, interplanting/polycropping, using biome-appropriate, and deeper rooted perennials, trees, vines and shrubs, using livestock to manage fertility, weeds and pests, etc contribute to resilience and reduced costs in the presence of adverse conditions.
My mother had a garden in the backyard of our beach coastal tract home 50+ years ago. it was the best broccoli I've ever tasted. She grew up on a farm in the Midwest, and had some kind of garden wherever she lived. With the price of produce wtapped up with transportation costs, backyard gardening is the way to go.
True! I couldn't believe the chickens, the dining and several other things that would be code restrictions in my small town in Central California. Zone 9B, I have several fruit trees and have done some front yard veggies. You wouldn't believe the amount of produce theft that occurs! And that was before the squirrels moved in two years ago.
I’m not sure it needs a ton of water once it’s up and running. You can create a micro climate that greatly reduces the water needs of the plants. Permaculture yards do it all the time.
This concept is very similar to the organic harvest garden with chef Ron Dodd in Long Beach, California. He’s been hosting farm to table events for a while with fantastic food.
Organic Harvest Garden is not in “the outskirts.” It’s literally right by the LA River, in the middle of a bunch of crossing major streets and residential areas. It’s not LA proper, sure….but most of “LA” is not LA proper. Organic Harvest Garden is definitely a true urban garden.
@basicallyno1722 lol!! You,literally, need to explain to folks how to get there, once they are there. Most people pass by it without knowing it's even there! Don't get me wrong,I love chef Rod. But, his location is OUT THERE!! It's SO OUT THERE,he actually has animals! Most of us other urban farmers in Long Beach don't have that kind of space.
There are! You just need the drive to start. And, NO!,...you don't need to own the land. I started in 2010. I have a couple of farms now. My friend is using his neighbors yards.
It is fun playing trades with your neighbors, some have fruit trees and someone always grows tomatoes and squash. Sometimes there are greens, peppers, and broccoli. We agree on organic ahead of time. We have a neighbor that loves having visitors and volunteers the porch with tables to put the produce on, so that worked out well for oyr street, lol.
Amazing....we already use gray water from our kitchen and have a huge backyard. This could be a definite possibility. I love the idea of bartering with organic foods, especially since groceries are so expensive now. I remember years ago reading the book Farm City by Novella Carpenter in the bay area and it was very inspirational.
If you are interested in doing this, look into permaculture. It will save you a lot of time and effort in making good choices for getting things set up. The goal is organize things so you have to do as little work as possible in maintaining it. You can have something that feeds you and takes less time than an ordinary yard.
Finally the US is doing what every other indigenous community has done for thousands of years. Not a novel idea, its normal behavior for normal humans.
Ngl indigenous community is where you can get lifetime knowledge on this. Provided of course you know which ones to talk too. There's a group in Oakland that does this too.
Subsistence agriculture is always described in negative terms but I suspect that’s western ignorance. What could be more powerful than the ability to feed yourself and your family without being beholden to anyone else? (I admit, it is a problem when you keep having to feed a family that gets larger and larger with each generation from the same amount of land. There are limits.)
@aliannarodriguez1581 it's because of all the companies doing industrialized agriculture with various chemicals etc that worsens the soil over time and renders it less fertile.
I got a huge fig tree, Blackberrys, Fuji apples, grapes, all sorts of different peppers and tomatoes, sweet potatoes squash, carrots I get so much I got neighbors coming to take some.
During the great depression of the 1930s when money was scarce, my husbands family did the above with a plot of land not far from downtown LA with neighbors and traded food with each other.
Nice! Doing it here in OC too. Chickens got to go though. Too many flies and pests will become a nuisance to your neighbors. It's an unavoidable consequence of keeping chickens/animals. Anyone who has chickens knows.
He said the most important part right near the end... "I'm gonna grow some stuff and you're gonna grow some stuff and we're gonna all TRADE". Real trading and bartering, that our governments have brainwashed right out of our minds. We have forgotten how to have a side hustle, a skill, a product, or equipment to trade and barter with. But I live in the "good ole boy" - "hand me down land" of the deep south, and it is great. So many people sharing, because they know their neighbors know how to return favors.
I think a barter system is great, and would certainly put a crimp in inflation. But as a society we all need to also produce a surplus in order to pay for all the things we need but can’t do ourselves. Like maintain a standing army to discourage stronger countries from aggressive behavior towards us, or even sending their armies to take what’s ours like Russia is doing to Ukraine (and has talked about doing to Alaska).
People do a surprising amount in apartments but it takes some knowledge and experimentation. The permaculture community shares a lot of tips for growing in all kinds of situations.
Grey water does increase chance of pathogens, so that's a thought. It would need to be properly processed. I wonder what they do to keep the soil replenished.
Gray water is usually pretty clean, it just has some soap and maybe a little food residue in it. (You don’t want to let it sit and turn nasty though.) Black water is where there is a big worry with pathogens.
So this cycle starts back up again. Many areas of the inner city are often fined and given heavy restrictions to do work like this for communities that need it the most.
As somebody not from California but looking at places to rent there ETC. I find it shocking how many places cement their backyards. Cement their front yard. Cement the greenery. Being from Texas I find it really weird.
@@aliannarodriguez1581 I don't know. The crazy part when you're looking for rentals. The houses with the yards and grass.. as minimal as they may be. Those are the ones that don't allow pets. And you're like WTF lol. To me I can't imagine going into a backyard or yard and thinking wow I'm so glad I got rid of that grass look at this great cement I've got now.
That last bit saying everyone needs to grow a little of everything and trade amongst the community is on point! That’s how you build resilient and healthy communities. We would still need large scale ag in order to feed everyone properly, but say only 20% of all our food sources come from our local communities and small scale farms- that would make a massive difference in everyone’s wellbeing.
Ur tripping because before any one who actually needs that land to grow food will never get it cuz trumps real estate market
@@dianetan5790 Relax, your excess soy is causing your Trump derangement to flare up.
@@Avaler oh yeah because trumps a non factor and he’s shootingsvwhere hoaxs
@@dianetan5790u have to go see a psychiatrist because you’re making everything about politics. Your obsession with Trump is making you delusional.
@@ednas207 ur obsession with ppl and trump shows ur poor
I started a backyard garden during Covid and I haven’t looked back since! I’ve since added over 15 fruit trees and two hydroponic coffee plants. These stories are truly inspirational and I strongly encourage everyone to start some type of home garden. It really doesn’t require a lot of space. Truly therapeutic!
I tried!! I wanted a sanctuary for birds and butterflies, too. But everything I plant dies. :( I live in San Diego in the East part of the city. Any suggestions??
You can step it up and do better! Instead of selfishly growing things for yourself, why not share the trees and knowledge with your surrounding community ? Grow your circle from a dot to the globe. Thanks ahead of time for taking that consciousness shift seriously
@@kayscarpetta5502 . Better spoil and irrigation? I'm in the bay area and seems to have the same problem, until I did raised beds and mixed my own soil, plus have more control with watering.
@@kayscarpetta5502 Yes! If you don't already know of Kevin Espiritu, follow his RUclips channel called Epic Gardening. He's in your area and has done amazing things with his suburban garden and business. He is fun to learn from because he has fantastic tips and a great smile.
@kayscarpetta5502 East part of the City Of San Diego? OR East San Diego County?
It's a question because the border of the City Of San Diego reaches all the way to Mission Gorge near Santee.
Throughout San Diego County (and City), gardening is quite possible. Hopefully, there are community garden organizations, nurseries that can help or direct you to those that can. In fact, the USDA (United States Department of Agriculture) has an office in every county in California. They will help you and put you in contact with Master Gardeners. Well, the USDA did that for me in San Diego and Orange Counties.
That is so cool that they were able to convert something zoned residential into something commercial and a farm with chickens.
Urban Agriculture Incentive Zone...California Bill AB551. Check it out
imagine being able to walk to a restaurant or bar and hang out with your neighbors in the suburbs
I want to walk downstairs and have a coffee shop and bakery a few steps away. It's so silly how Los Angeles bans from our neighborhoods the conveniences we need every day and restricts them to the noisy arterials where nobody wants to hang out.
I love the acknowledgement of Gangsta Garden!
IN MY SMALL L.A. BACKYARD - I have a Navel Orange, Meyer Lemon, Rio Red Grapefruit, Yellow Nectarine, Bacon Avocado, and Japanese Plum tree. I get hundreds of pieces of fruit a year. Not counting the vegetables I grow in between them. People are amazed when they see my backyard.
I've always found it nuts when someone has an acre of land and their goal is to only have pretty grass. I have an outside garden where I grow tomatoes, kale, swiss chard, etc., and just started doing a hydroponics garden this year. I had such a good cucumber harvest this year, I landed up giving 90% of it away to friends and family and 20 lbs of it to the local food bank.
@@dontbanmebrodontbanme5403 very nice! Was it easy to start the vertical garden? How much it cost to start the project? People are concerned about the electric bill running the tower. I would like to try it. I'm sure your local food bank appreciates your donations!
I swear it makes the living area around your house like 20 degrees cooler also which is amazing in AZ
Even in more humid areas the temperature drop on heavily planted properties is staggering. It’s not just the shade, it’s the evaporative cooling effect as water molecules released by plants suck heat from the air as they phase from liquid to gas. I read that each large tree is like having a one ton chiller in your yard.
We did this in unincorporated Los Angeles county right in the OC border. We don’t host farm to table events but we host kids workshops for flowers and beneficial insects.
I proposed these ideas as community garden along with cooking classes in July during my recreational center interview, hopefully they are willing to give it a try
This is simply amazing, this should be encouraged in many cities
That is awesome. I believe the concept of neighbors growing assigned vegetables is either in New Zealand or Denmark and I love the concept!!!! 🌱👏🏼❤️🔥🌱
I dream of this in our neighborhood! I’m a backyard gardener- growing for the pollinators & ourselves. Just needing some chicken, but we compost via vermi-composting & loving it so far!
Perfect weather for growing.
It is expect they’re using grey water to water the plants. Grey water is your waste water. Soap water
And dining outside.
That’s what I was thinking! Especially when the water is grey water that would otherwise go to a treatment plant. I live in Canada, and we try and grow stuff in our backyard, but it just doesn’t produce much.
Wonderful! Thanks and keep giving us many more good news like this!
So good to see something as beautiful as this!
Every city and town needs this❤
Just beautiful and so inspiring. Great work 👏
This is amazing and such an inspiration. Thank you for sharing this video
This is a phenomenal example of suburban home farming. Vegetable gardens can be planted almost anywhere that people live.
I have always had a vegetable garden and an indoor garden. My pandemic project was turning a spare room into a Garden Room. We now grow the usual assortment of subsistence and fresh vegetables outdoors. Indoors we grow scallions, celery, herbs, greens, lettuce, cherry tomatoes, dwarf carrots, sugar snap peas, sweet potatoes, peppers, brocolli, cauliflower, beans, ginger, garlic, onions, various root vegetables, and cultivated mushrooms. This is done year-round, with succession planting, drip irrigation, vermiculture, composting, LED grow lights, sunny windows, shelving, a trellis system, and just a few hours a week.
I’m so proud of them, stuff like this warms my heart. ❤
Making a Difference is beautiful-I ❤️ LA‼️ 🌴🌺
Intensive small-scale farming is the most productive form of farming in the world, and it's not even close. It also provides jobs for the people that have been squeezed out of the service or high tech sector. Expensive large-scale plantation brings less production and $ per acre. The amount of capital to actually make a large-scale farming be as productive as small-scale garden-style farming is so large that most people cannot afford it anyway
You can grow intensively, and in a way that restores soil too --on a large scale.
Look up restoration ag and Mark Shepard. He brought together some great concepts and combined them do that larger enterprises can convert how they grow food, manage land, build localized resiliency. It saves water, too. while increasing biomass. It's very efficient _and can be done very cheaply._ It reduces waste while increasing calories _and_ nutrition per acre.
It’s more productive per square meter yes, but it’s far less efficient than large scale agriculture. That’s why large scale will always win out unfortunately. I believe there’s ways to find a decent middle ground however. Agroforestry would be one example.
@@CampingforCool41
Current large scale is a losing game though. It's why universities have agriculture departments trying to give a dying model life support.
Monoculture, annual-based, synthetic chemical doused, bare earth/fallow practices degrade soil and reduce usable water supply.
We can grow a lot more food if we switch to a restorative ag model. It's the in-between that we need.
Restorative ag uses polycropped, biome-appropriate food-producing trees, vines and shrubs that alternate between alleycropped perennials, pasture and annuals.
It harvests rainwater to reduce irrigation expense. It builds soil and resiliency. It reduces start up costs compared to conventional ag, and you can start on poorer soil instead of struggling to start out on expensive, fertile land.
Livestock manage weeds, pests and fertility instead of relying on soil-destroying synthetic chemical inputs. It produces more biomass and nutrition per acre per year than conventional ag as well, meaning more food/feed supply.
More carbon is sequestered so soil is more fertile, restored and plants/harvests more resilient.
It's wildlife friendly too...
Except if you don't grow enough that year or get hit by heat wave thay kills produce and can't sell but have people who are employed, they will be first to go.
@@malovina
Heat waves are an issue if you've picked something and lack proper storage or you lack water.
Plenty of rainwater harvesting possibilities in LA. Street stormwater runoff is great for fruit trees and nonetheless plants. Greywater (you must use salt-free soaps and detergents) is food for many of the plants. For food like lettuces, harvesting water to raingardens and large cisterns (for onsite use) works well.
Mulching, avoiding bare soil practices, interplanting/polycropping, using biome-appropriate, and deeper rooted perennials, trees, vines and shrubs, using livestock to manage fertility, weeds and pests, etc contribute to resilience and reduced costs in the presence of adverse conditions.
My mother had a garden in the backyard of our beach coastal tract home 50+ years ago. it was the best broccoli I've ever tasted. She grew up on a farm in the Midwest, and had some kind of garden wherever she lived. With the price of produce wtapped up with transportation costs, backyard gardening is the way to go.
Yes, good. We need this. Esp in Rural PA with our food deserts of ultra processed cancer. So much grasssss....
That’s crazy that people live that way there, you have a great climate and soil for this kind of thing there.
So great!
Communist👎🏿
These are people doing great things.😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤It is very comforting to know people are joining each other in a very positive way❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉
Reminds me of the Dervaes Urban Homestead in Pasadena.
Yes they started the movement
I thought the same thing. Diane
This is amazing!!! I am hoping to do this with my moms yard in LA.
Bravo we need to return to this 👏
Ah, to live in zone 10 with plenty of water and no restrictive zoning ordinances. Great story
True! I couldn't believe the chickens, the dining and several other things that would be code restrictions in my small town in Central California. Zone 9B, I have several fruit trees and have done some front yard veggies. You wouldn't believe the amount of produce theft that occurs! And that was before the squirrels moved in two years ago.
Zone 10 📝 ah ok good to know
I’m not sure it needs a ton of water once it’s up and running. You can create a micro climate that greatly reduces the water needs of the plants. Permaculture yards do it all the time.
Together they're evolving as a joyful community
This concept is very similar to the organic harvest garden with chef Ron Dodd in Long Beach, California. He’s been hosting farm to table events for a while with fantastic food.
Ron's not really in a neighborhood. He's on the outskirts. But, he does do a nice job with his events. Going to one, tonight!
Organic Harvest Garden is not in “the outskirts.” It’s literally right by the LA River, in the middle of a bunch of crossing major streets and residential areas. It’s not LA proper, sure….but most of “LA” is not LA proper. Organic Harvest Garden is definitely a true urban garden.
@basicallyno1722 lol!! You,literally, need to explain to folks how to get there, once they are there. Most people pass by it without knowing it's even there! Don't get me wrong,I love chef Rod. But, his location is OUT THERE!!
It's SO OUT THERE,he actually has animals! Most of us other urban farmers in Long Beach don't have that kind of space.
Why can’t there be more people like that
because people like this have priced them out of home ownership. that’s why
There are! You just need the drive to start. And, NO!,...you don't need to own the land. I started in 2010.
I have a couple of farms now. My friend is using his neighbors yards.
Go to your community meetings and suggest it as a projects
I wish I could do something like this but I'm homeless in my car 😢
Good stuff 👍
I love that it is in the middle of the city!
It is fun playing trades with your neighbors, some have fruit trees and someone always grows tomatoes and squash. Sometimes there are greens, peppers, and broccoli. We agree on organic ahead of time. We have a neighbor that loves having visitors and volunteers the porch with tables to put the produce on, so that worked out well for oyr street, lol.
Finlay is simply legendary
What a awesome idea..
Great article! Well Done!
Now, these is very good ❤news🎉
Brilliant!
THAT'S HOW EVERYTHING IS SUPPOSED TO BE...ABSOLUTE HOMESTEAD GARDENING WITHIN THE BIG CITY...ABSOLUTE FARM TO FORK...
i would love to hear more about the Gangster Gardener and how they got approval to have a farm-to-table restaurant in a residential neighborhood.
Amen!!! Love love this! ❤❤❤
Amazing....we already use gray water from our kitchen and have a huge backyard. This could be a definite possibility. I love the idea of bartering with organic foods, especially since groceries are so expensive now. I remember years ago reading the book Farm City by Novella Carpenter in the bay area and it was very inspirational.
If you are interested in doing this, look into permaculture. It will save you a lot of time and effort in making good choices for getting things set up. The goal is organize things so you have to do as little work as possible in maintaining it. You can have something that feeds you and takes less time than an ordinary yard.
So inspiring!
Thank you for this! :)
Yessss great work!! 🇺🇸
Amazing this is how we solve hunger! Backyard gardens!!!
SO AWESOME!!!
love this!
I love this. ❤
Brilliance!
Awesome awesome awesome!!!!!
Love ❤️ this!!
Instead of mansions being 3 acres in size...imagine the land that could be used instead for things like this ❤
This is what every person needs to do
Wonderful
Blessings🎉❤
“We must cultivate our garden.” -Voltaire
Awesome 👏
That's already how it is at Pacific north west 😃. Hope to see it expand in LA!
Gangster Gardener! He was on Ted Talk. Glad his idea inspired more people. His gardens are on sidewalks to feed the low-income communities.
Oh I absolutely love that idea. How can I do that in Burien Washington.🤔
Start!
Go to your community meetings and suggest it as a community project
So lucky! Growing in a wonderful climate where there are plenty of eaters, ready to pay
Finally the US is doing what every other indigenous community has done for thousands of years. Not a novel idea, its normal behavior for normal humans.
Ngl indigenous community is where you can get lifetime knowledge on this. Provided of course you know which ones to talk too. There's a group in Oakland that does this too.
Subsistence agriculture is always described in negative terms but I suspect that’s western ignorance. What could be more powerful than the ability to feed yourself and your family without being beholden to anyone else? (I admit, it is a problem when you keep having to feed a family that gets larger and larger with each generation from the same amount of land. There are limits.)
@aliannarodriguez1581 it's because of all the companies doing industrialized agriculture with various chemicals etc that worsens the soil over time and renders it less fertile.
Don’t forget your front yards too!
Got that LA hipster straight brim hat and and ray ban glasses. Everyone looks the same out there. Love what they’re growing though
This is so cool.
love this just as I love Jennifer Garner's garden too 😘
Grass lawn!!,,, I gotta go mow the da** grass!!! Great ideas!!
Wow❤
I got a huge fig tree, Blackberrys, Fuji apples, grapes, all sorts of different peppers and tomatoes, sweet potatoes squash, carrots I get so much I got neighbors coming to take some.
wonderful
That’s awesome
Way to go !
“Thousands of pounds?” They really think we’re that dumb.
I don’t think that’s an exaggeration given the number of plants I see. They probably weigh everything produced so they aren’t guessing.
Great idea for the lucky few that can afford la real estate
Love this video, I wonder if they were influenced by the AWESOME Dervaes family of Pasadena, which I'm thinking is near L.A.?🤔👍
Pasadena is a part of LA.
Wow!
They got that idea from urban homestead in Pasadena the devares family
Urban hippies
I know you don't know how to chop an onion.
During the great depression of the 1930s when money was scarce, my husbands family did the above with a plot of land not far from downtown LA with neighbors and traded food with each other.
I grow most of my foods in the raised bed garden where I live.
This is amazing
💚💚💚
That’s how life works. Now we just work
Lawns are the largest irrigated crop in the United States.
Nice! Doing it here in OC too. Chickens got to go though. Too many flies and pests will become a nuisance to your neighbors. It's an unavoidable consequence of keeping chickens/animals. Anyone who has chickens knows.
I would think that’s only a issue with large commercial flocks, I haven’t seen it with small backyard flocks especially if they are free roaming.
The dream needs reignited…but people need land first!
What kind of code did you have to pass and or what kind of licensing did you have to have? Permit?
He said the most important part right near the end... "I'm gonna grow some stuff and you're gonna grow some stuff and we're gonna all TRADE". Real trading and bartering, that our governments have brainwashed right out of our minds. We have forgotten how to have a side hustle, a skill, a product, or equipment to trade and barter with.
But I live in the "good ole boy" - "hand me down land" of the deep south, and it is great. So many people sharing, because they know their neighbors know how to return favors.
I think a barter system is great, and would certainly put a crimp in inflation. But as a society we all need to also produce a surplus in order to pay for all the things we need but can’t do ourselves. Like maintain a standing army to discourage stronger countries from aggressive behavior towards us, or even sending their armies to take what’s ours like Russia is doing to Ukraine (and has talked about doing to Alaska).
If you have a yard, you can get into this.
People do a surprising amount in apartments but it takes some knowledge and experimentation. The permaculture community shares a lot of tips for growing in all kinds of situations.
Grey water does increase chance of pathogens, so that's a thought. It would need to be properly processed. I wonder what they do to keep the soil replenished.
By letting organic plant material decompose on the ground
You know
The exact same way as a natural untouched forested area does?
Gray water is usually pretty clean, it just has some soap and maybe a little food residue in it. (You don’t want to let it sit and turn nasty though.) Black water is where there is a big worry with pathogens.
So this cycle starts back up again. Many areas of the inner city are often fined and given heavy restrictions to do work like this for communities that need it the most.
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Should feed the homeless with these gardens
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good, we need urban farm than tennis court
As somebody not from California but looking at places to rent there ETC. I find it shocking how many places cement their backyards. Cement their front yard. Cement the greenery. Being from Texas I find it really weird.
It is bizarre. Why even live in a house if you don’t want a yard?
@@aliannarodriguez1581 I don't know. The crazy part when you're looking for rentals. The houses with the yards and grass.. as minimal as they may be. Those are the ones that don't allow pets. And you're like WTF lol.
To me I can't imagine going into a backyard or yard and thinking wow I'm so glad I got rid of that grass look at this great cement I've got now.