I think growing your own food as much as possible is important to a eco-friendly, hippy lifestyle. It saves so many resources. And in the long run it saves a lot of money and makes you better connected to the earth and what you eat. I live in an apartment with no yard, but I try to buy organic as much as I can afford it. I am experimenting with a window garden and growing my own spices such as dill and basil. My mother-in-law has a fantastic garden with tomatoes, cucumbers, squash, corn and watermelon. We get a lot of stuff from her. What do the rest of you think about gardening in regards to the hippy lifestyle?
I love gardening! Growing your own veg is better because its much cheaper than the shops and you can be sure its organic, I would love to grow all my own stuff and be self-sufficient but I'm too lazy lol
I think it is fabulous..I hope to someday live on a farm and be able to grow all of my own food... It's a dream of mine....
I think it could be considered essental, in a sence, to a hippie lifestyle. That is, when it is possible. We haven't put our garden in yet this year, and we're hoping to get that done before it's too late! We moved in December, so this will be our first garden of our own (we lived with family and shared their garden in the past.) We just have to get it tilled up. It is completely worth the time and effort (which really isn't that much.)
I think a garden is essential for anyone who has space. We were growing herbs in the little patch behind our apartment until the landlord drove poisen spikes into the ground. Now it's not fit to grow anything. But if we ever have space I want a garden. Kathi
Gardens are cool!!! My mom stepdad just moved out to the country...they have a big yard and garden! So far, they are growing squash, peppers, and onions in the garden! Man, I can't wait! I was out there doing some stuff with them this weekend! It was really fun.
I also love gardening and organic food!!! I dunno have a garden where I live.. but I have always my own basil, salvia and petersil... but my parents have also a lots of salat, many more herbs and spices, tomatoes, apricots, blackberries, strawberries, cucumbers and some more I do not remember since I have not been at home a lot this year (living 1500 km far from it... )
Im a organic gardner/garlic farmer.About 85% of our food comes from the gardens.We grow enouph to last us year round .Took a few years to learn the best way to preserve and keep it all.allot of food goes into the root celler i dug,the rest we freeze.gardning helps ground my restless spirit.and brings me cerenity.i think its a verry important part of the hippy way of life.love to you,green healing thoughts frog
its a good thing and the food tastes better I will agree with you on that! but hope fully only afew people will do it because it takes away income from farmers and hurts da economy but only 2 a very small extent if only afew thousand do it..
I love gardening and nature in general. Alas it is a triumph of enthusiasm over ability. I managed to kill a cactus (ha and you thought it was impossible!) Saying that I did manage to grow some stawberries a few summers ago. They were a bit puny, but otherwise great. TTFN Sage
I love to see younger folk so interested in taking care of themselves and the planet. And I just don't feel right till my hands are back in the dirt every spring. One of the best things you can do that is also rather easy and inexpensive is to grow your own food. There are many excellent books at the library if you don't know how. The foods in the markets are getting moore and more harmful to eat...sprayed with who knows what and grown in depleted soil. Also I just can't trust this whole new world of Genetically Altered seed. I buy my seed from catalogs that assure me their seed is organic and not altered. I also try to buy all heirloom seed as i can save it for myself and keep it true to the strain. My daughter lives in Boston, no yard but a great roof and she has hauled buckets and dirt up there and is growing. Good for you who have no yard but grow on a window sill, its better than nothing, and someday you may have your own plot of land. Good growing, teepi
I had a home garden once, really great tomatoes. Before we fixed up our house, but soon we're going plant a new one.
I started growing squash, lima beans,and zuchinni this year.. I wanna do more next year... its sad that the growing season where I live is so small. Also foraging is really fun. dandelions, bamboo, wild strawberries, lambs quarters... lots of wild foods. good stuff
The plan is to put the garden in tomorrow! It rained much of the day today, so the ground should be nice and soft! We'll be doing a raised bed this year because we don't have a tiller, and I don't want to dig up all that dirt by hand! I have a lot of soil from the ditch we've been digging (to help with the back yard flooding) and from my parent's garden. My father has a whole bunch of plants for us that are left over from his garden! It pays to have hippie parents! Hopefully we won't be rained on tomorrow, and all will go well. We just got a few yard toys (bikes, wagons, etc.,) that someone was just throwing away (people are so wasteful!) and that should keep my two year old occupied once he gets tired of digging in the dirt. My 5 month old should be fine in the sling for most of the day... I hope! He can be naked and close to me, and just pee in the grass (or, rather, the garden) and that should keep her happy. Hopefully there will be no heat stroke, and the bugs won't be too bad. Alright, I should go to bed.... I'm just rambling on here.... good night!
I love to garden too... A good book to read is called Lasagna Gardening for Small Spaces, it's a very cool book, I've been using it for my gardening for 2 years now... I love growing tomatoes and cucumbers especially, and tons of herbs... I just made TONS of tomato sauce for pasta... I just pureed a few dozen tomatoes, a couple zucchinis and eggplants and tons of herbs... It made about 20 yogurt containers, frozen. Awesome for the whole winter....
cuba is one of the best countries with ecological respect. They are encouraging the civic population to grow communal gardens within city, by the sidewalks, or just on empty tracts. "National data on average U.S. consumption indicates that if everyone on Earth lived like average Americans, we would need 5.3 planets to support us all." http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:iLZjAUX_dlsJ:www.michaelfraase.com/index.php/hasten/how_many_planets_are_needed_to_support_your_lifestyle/+if+everyone+americans+planets&hl=tr
RIGHT ON!!! I grow my own tomatos, peppers, cucumbers, zucchini, and carrots. When I grow up, I'm going to be an organic farmer and grow all my own food.
I love gardening, and plating/growing things, I always have a garden in the summer with tomatoes, herbs, peppers (hot and sweet), cucumbers, zucchini, squash, and some other stuff, but unfortunately wear I live it gets to cold to have one all year, put I do go to a horticulture vocational school for half the day, it has a green house and stuff, it's pretty cool, I grow some stuff there, but no that much...
