Self-Sufficient Farming

[Zuzu]

This subject is increasingly catching my attention. I have been researching hydroponic gardening, square foot gardening and backyard chickens. I am going to take several gardening classes in the next six weeks. In the event of economic/currency collapse, having the ability to grow your own food sure beats standing in line for govt gmo rations. Plus I can save a lot of money over buying produce and eggs from Whole Foods. I am going to post my experiences in this thread.

Z


One acre self sufficient homestead article from Mother Earth News

http://foodfreedom.wordpress.com/2011/0 ... homestead/




Related:

http://missinghumanmanual.com/?p=802

[Zuzu]

Growingyourgreens.com - This guy is bad azz. He turned his entire yard into an organic garden. He has over 600 videos on Youtube

Survival Gardening Tips: Planting an Edible Food Garden at Home
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qxi7LPoT ... ure=relmfu

Overhead View of my Urban Edible Vegetable Garden
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQ6JOH89 ... ure=relmfu

Best Books for Urban Vegetable Gardening
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaiiBK10 ... ure=relmfu

Part 1 of 7 How to Build a Raised Bed Garden
http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&featu ... 2WGtYxAEdo

[Zuzu]

This guy is organic gardening in a condo in NYC

http://thedeliciousday.com/health/urban ... -gardener/

https://www.facebook.com/UrbanOrganicGardener

[Dream]

Thanks for posting Zuzu.... I'll be watching. My girlfriend and I got into gardening a few months ago. Not enough yet to feed ourselves but it has reaped some rewards. We plan to continue gardening and expanding what we already have.

[Zuzu]

When I get home in two weeks, I am going to start by making a few of these self watering buckets

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdHBzNS3 ... re=related

http://www.pasturemanagement.com/Howtobucketgarden.htm

http://www.urbanorganicgardener.com/201 ... container/

http://www.urbanorganicgardener.com/201 ... ners-work/

I have a copy of "All New Square Foot Gardening" by Mel Bartholomew that I will read while I am traveling
http://www.amazon.com/All-New-Square-Fo ... 1591862027

I am going to take a class on composting, irrigation and making a rain barrel in early May. The class is 22 dollars and they give you a free drip irrigation kit and a free 55 gallon rain barrel

http://hillsborough.extension.ufl.edu/H ... endar.html

Z

[Zuzu]

I have 16 buckets that I bought at various Firehouse Subs location. I am going to buy 4 more which will allow me to have 10 growing containers.

http://www.firehousesubs.com/How-You-Can-Help.aspx

Since I know very little about growing from seeds and it is late in the season, I am going to buy some seedlings. I found two local sources. One is 100% heirloom/organic

http://growincrazyacres.com/Plants-Seedlings.php

http://www.whitwamorganics.com/products ... seedlings/

I found both at this page

http://goinggreentampa.com/home/garden- ... ping-.html



I also picked up a copy of this book. It is very good.

http://www.amazon.com/Vegetable-Gardene ... B003PGQK1O

[Zuzu]

it will be 10 container buckets for now and raised beds like these later in the year

[Zuzu]

Chart listing how many plants per 5 gallon container

http://www.urbanorganicgardener.com/201 ... container/

[Zuzu]

Great chart listing what to plant this month, and every month in Florida

http://www.motherearthnews.com/Organic- ... egion.aspx

[Zuzu]

I built this permaculture bed this past weekend. I have a lot to update that I will post during the next week while traveling.

Z