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Planting a vegetable garden is something all of us can be doing to help boost our health, and help lower our collective carbon footprint. Even if all you have time and space for is one tomato plant in a 5 gallon bucket, get started! It’s so rewarding, and with a few tricks and a little bit of effort, you can grow your garden with minimal stress and maximum satisfaction.
Just like us, all animals and insects need food, shelter, and water. You get bonus points if you also put some thought into how and where your little friends will raise their young. In most cases, your gardens will provide the food in the form of bugs and possibly some vegetation that you might plant for say, butterfly caterpillars. So, let’s focus on shelter and water. Here are a few tips and tricks to some of these hopping buddies into your gardens.
Over 30 seasonal volunteers share in fresh produce harvested. Donated produce goes to over 300 community members between the locations that Sand Hill Community Garden donates to.
Brussels Sprouts can be grown in all areas of the United States. Their long time to maturity and sensitivity to nutrient imbalances have given them a reputation for being difficult. With well worked, fertile soil, regular feedings and well-timed plantings, you can grow the most delicious Sprouts you’ve ever had! Brussels Sprouts are biennial, meaning they won’t send out a flower until second year of growth, often triggered into flowering by the end of a winter season.
Each year we have approximately 20 children in a class. We send things home to the families as well, so I would say that around 80 people a year benefit from the garden. Of course, the beauty of that is the class changes each year, so we get to garden and share with 80 new people each season!
Some basic tips include to make sure you have at least 7 hours of full-sun, that you are near a water source, that you have some flat areas or a plan to work with the slope of the land, that you have accessed the how, what, and why including community need and interest, and that you have plenty of people who are interested and invested in seeing this project through.
New Communities was a farm where everyone would share stewardship of the land. It was to have an independent education system, healthcare system, and housing, strongly rooted in community and cooperative practices, meant to provide autonomy to the folks involved.
A true community herbalist, Ms. Dupree didn’t set a price for her services. Sometimes she would get $5, sometimes $30, and she was happy to accept trades of ingredients she needed for her work such as lemons, vinegar, rock candy, honey, and molasses.
Fannie Lou Hamer has left us a clear and usable model for cooperative farming, and her lifetime of justice work and public service should be a beacon and inspiration to coming generations.
As the first Black man to earn a graduate degree in agriculture in the U.S. (and the first black student at Iowa State), Carver was offered many teaching positions upon graduation, but he chose to join Booker T. Washington in opening the Agricultural school at Tuskagee University in Alabama. On his way from Iowa to his new post in Alabama, Carver recalled, "Everything looked hungry: the land, the cotton, the cattle, and the people.”
“If you can’t or won’t observe the basic laws of horticulture, then forget it. Either do it right, or don’t do it at all, because the results just won’t be what you wanted. You’ll simply...
Inspired by legendary farmer Leah Penniman of Soul Fire Farm located in Upstate New York at a BUGS (Black Urban Garden Society conference in Atlanta, Georgia) to be the change she was looking for in her Pinehurst Community. “If you are looking for someone to save you, no one is coming. You will have to save yourself,” Says Penniman.
