I just thought of a wonderful to help mother nature produce the foods that are shared by so many. Every time I eat an orange or other seeded fruit from now on, i'm going to save the seeds, and once per week i will go out to an empty field and scatter them on the ground. If they don't grow, at least the animals will enjoy them
When i eat fruit i like to put the peels and seeds outside just so it can nicely cycle back into the Earth instead of rotting in some garbage dump If all the seeds grew that i have thrown out id have a nice little farm goin ..
good idea.. seed bombs: http://www.latimes.com/features/home/la-hm.0529.seedbomb-pg,0,5088922.photogallery they'll grow
thats a good way to help give back. those seedbombs are a really good idea to. I think I might try something like that
guerrilla gardening is such a simple yet effective tool to really begin revamping our food infrastructure.
I used to drop seeds all the time from wild chokecherry trees and wild plum trees on my parents property when I was a kid, now, almost 20 years later, when you walk along the trails you can find a lot more edibles then before. the birds and a lot of other animals including me, love it.
My grandfather used to do that. He also used to rip up stale bread and throw it into the back yard. Birds love it!
Wow, I follow the exact same philosophy, thats creepy man. People ask me why I'm littering when I do it, I tell them I'm saving the earth ^^. I def. dont' throw plastics/metals outside though.
Yay im not the only one haha.. it gets on my family's nerves sometimes they say it looks "bad" in the yard.. so now i have to go to a certain spot or hide them in bushes lol! ya deff no trash just food
At my house we eat a lot of bananas and potatoes and I always throw the peels on the ground in our backyard. Animals enjoy them and they restore nutrients to the earths soil, which can actually help a little as fertilizer if you were to throw them in your garden.
I scatter seeds all the time, and always compost each year for my organic garden. This year I transplanted spearmint from the garden to large pots, and the extra roots and sod from expanding the garden, I put in the woods, formed a circle... now, a few months later, the roots have spread and mint grew into a large patch. It's along a path I hike, and often I glimpse rabbits and deer munching on it.
I'd suggest looking into native varieties to do this with, especially wild flowers. There's a better chance they will bloom, and it's spreading plants/flowers that local wildlife is already attracted to. A few years ago I paid attention to a couple varieties of wild Lupin, and when they would go to seed. Then just pluck random plants (making sure to take from different area's) and hang them to dry. Then spread around in a new area where you've never seen them pop up before. I've been doing this with California poppies, and Lupin for a couple years now, and have spread flowers to a lot of spaces that were "empty" of flowers.
I agree with the native approach. I've been attempting this when possible. It is always wonderful to come up on an area where you spread seed, and see what germinated and survived.
yeah thats cute. try using only local plants though, jeez. no point in fucking with naturally occurring plants and animals. unless youre in the city or something, then it hardly matters.
