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OftenBen  ·  4039 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Don't let your Children grow up to be Farmers

If there is to be a real and effective food revolution, on scales that matter, gardening has to become sexy. A home garden, backyard chickens, and canning must become a norm, to just name a few practices. It must be a humble goal of every household to raise as much of their own food as they can, and always be looking for sustainable ways to increase their annual yield. Fuck your lawn, plant a garden. Every unfinished basement (And some finished ones) should look like marijuana grow ops, stuffed with peppers, spinach, tomatoes and berries. A person should be lauded on how little they have to purchase to keep their family fed, and when they must purchase things that they cannot themselves produce, like red meat, dairy to some extent, it should be as locally sourced as possible, and bought at prices that would support a respectable standard of living for those who commit their lives to producing dairy and red meat (Really any crop that requires large investments of land and time).

As to how to achieve these goals, fuck if I know. I help in my families garden, I know how to can any number of veggies, and can cook with the best of them, with whatever ingredients I have on hand. Once I have an apartment, I'll grow what I can, once I have a home I'll probably rip up the lawn and replace it with spinach, tomatoes, peppers, and as many other varieties of high yield, high nutrition plants as possible, And I'll probably keep chickens like my mother, I've grown accustomed to fresh, bright orange eggs. I'll advocate my friends and neighbors do the same, and try to change local ordinances enforcing non-productive expanses of grass in the front and/or backyard.

But maybe I'm weird.