The Garden Earth Project's Posts - Urgent Evoke2024-03-29T14:57:18ZThe Garden Earth Projecthttp://www.urgentevoke.com/profile/TheGardenEarthProjecthttp://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2209185958?profile=RESIZE_48X48&width=48&height=48&crop=1%3A1http://www.urgentevoke.com/profiles/blog/feed?user=30qg28dofb1aj&xn_auth=noIntroduction to Urban ReGardeningtag:www.urgentevoke.com,2010-03-13:4871302:BlogPost:346412010-03-13T16:05:54.000ZThe Garden Earth Projecthttp://www.urgentevoke.com/profile/TheGardenEarthProject
This blog originated as an email response to an agent who asked me what I thought of urban farming and hydroponics. As I began crafting my response, I realized it was better posted as a blog for wider distribution rather than a private exchange between myself and another agent. That being said, here are my thoughts on Urban Gardening.<br></br><br></br>Wherever people live, we need food. People live in urban areas, so urban gardening is a necessity. What approach to use?<br></br><br></br>When gardening in urban…
This blog originated as an email response to an agent who asked me what I thought of urban farming and hydroponics. As I began crafting my response, I realized it was better posted as a blog for wider distribution rather than a private exchange between myself and another agent. That being said, here are my thoughts on Urban Gardening.<br/><br/>Wherever people live, we need food. People live in urban areas, so urban gardening is a necessity. What approach to use?<br/><br/>When gardening in urban areas, once must be concerned with contaminants in food. Buffer zones and barriers against pollution are essential, as is building the tilth of the soil.<br/><br/>My approach to gardening is to use the most energy and resource efficient methods possible. The objective is to achieve maximum production for minimum effort. <br/><br/>Gardening methods that use large quantities of materials that have to be mined, manufactured, transported, warehoused, stocked, inventoried, sold, constructed, maintained and disposed of when they are no longer in use do not meet my criteria for good gardening practices.<br/><br/>My approach is to instead identify the land that is available in urban areas that is already irrigated and tended, yet growing landscape plants rather than growing plants that are useful for human sustenance. <br/><br/>The way Quinn used public spaces in the first episode is an example of what I am referring to (although I would plant from seeds and starts, and compost neighborhood wastes rather than truck it all in the dark of the night). <br/><br/>Parks, lawns, planters around commercial buildings and parking lots, roadside easements,
small urban yards are all potential sustenance gardens. Build the Tilth of this land, improve the irrigation, plant edible, medicinal and otherwise useful species rather than landscape plants. <br/><br/>Build barriers and buffer zones to protect the crops from contaminants. Grow species that are compatible with the climate zones and conditions that don't require greenhousing. <br/><br/>Establish permanent, self renewing plantings that require little human tending other than to harvest. Allow them to establish themselves over the course of time, rather than over weeding or ripping them out at the end of each season then replanting them anew the next.<br/><br/>Bottom line - the work of The Garden Earth Project is ReGardening. ReGardening is defined as "regenerating the earths natural garden state through establishing permanent sustenance gardens." In other words - regrowing Eden.<br/><br/>With that in mind, wherever you live, be it an urban, suburban, rural or range environment, and ask yourself, "What would it look like if this were a little patch of Eden? Then do what you can to allow it to return. When the Earth is allowed to fully renew and regenerate itself, food security will rapidly become a non-issue.<br/>ReGardening Eden - Establishing Permanent Sustenance Gardenstag:www.urgentevoke.com,2010-03-06:4871302:BlogPost:198842010-03-06T21:30:53.000ZThe Garden Earth Projecthttp://www.urgentevoke.com/profile/TheGardenEarthProject
A permanent sustenance garden is a garden that naturally renews and regenerates itself through reseeding and sending out shoots and starts all on its own with little human intervention other than harvesting it's bounty. It is a garden that tends itself, waters itself, tills itself, weeds itself, composts itself, becoming ever more lush and abundant year after year. This garden provides sustenance for humans, habitat for wildlife and restores the balance essential for addressing climate and…
A permanent sustenance garden is a garden that naturally renews and regenerates itself through reseeding and sending out shoots and starts all on its own with little human intervention other than harvesting it's bounty. It is a garden that tends itself, waters itself, tills itself, weeds itself, composts itself, becoming ever more lush and abundant year after year. This garden provides sustenance for humans, habitat for wildlife and restores the balance essential for addressing climate and pollution issues.<br/><br/>View an example of one permanent sustenance garden <a href="http://www.urgentevoke.com/video/a-300-year-old-food-forest-in">here</a>.<br/><br/>What obstacles to establishing these gardens can you identify? <br/><br/>Please comment below.<br/><br/>Tea Time 2020tag:www.urgentevoke.com,2010-03-04:4871302:BlogPost:115102010-03-04T08:30:00.000ZThe Garden Earth Projecthttp://www.urgentevoke.com/profile/TheGardenEarthProject
In 2020, there will be no need for Alchemy to call me to handle a food crisis. <br></br><br></br>There will be no food crisis, as it will already have been averted by the re-establishment of permanent sustenance gardens worldwide.<br></br><br></br>Can we really imagine a world without crisis? Can we really imagine a world of serenity, a world of comfort and abundance, a world of celebration, creativity and beauty? Can we really imagine establishing that world at whatever scale is possible, right now, right…
In 2020, there will be no need for Alchemy to call me to handle a food crisis. <br/><br/>There will be no food crisis, as it will already have been averted by the re-establishment of permanent sustenance gardens worldwide.<br/><br/>Can we really imagine a world without crisis? Can we really imagine a world of serenity, a world of comfort and abundance, a world of celebration, creativity and beauty? Can we really imagine establishing that world at whatever scale is possible, right now, right here today?<br/><br/>In 2020 I will be sitting with my closest friends and family sipping the most fragrant and delicious herb tea, just harvested. We will be enjoying our favorite foods, making music, sharing poems, and playing games, all the while surrounded by the most exquisitely lush and bountiful gardens, perfectly providing all our essential needs abundantly.<br/>I don't know if this is cheating . . .tag:www.urgentevoke.com,2010-03-04:4871302:BlogPost:114832010-03-04T07:46:59.000ZThe Garden Earth Projecthttp://www.urgentevoke.com/profile/TheGardenEarthProject
. . . but I choose Jane McGonigal to shadow. Actually, I was already <br></br>
shadowing her. That's how I found this site in the first place. <br></br>
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Hope you don't mind Jane, but you're it! <br></br>
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I found and bookmarked avantgame.com many moons ago, when I first discovered the ARG genre.<br></br><br></br>To act on this mission challenge, I sent you a facebook friend request, I book marked your blog, I'm following you
on twitter. <br></br><br></br>Watch for my FarmVille invite!! (I need horse shoes to…
. . . but I choose Jane McGonigal to shadow. Actually, I was already <br/>
shadowing her. That's how I found this site in the first place. <br/>
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Hope you don't mind Jane, but you're it! <br/>
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I found and bookmarked avantgame.com many moons ago, when I first discovered the ARG genre.<br/><br/>To act on this mission challenge, I sent you a facebook friend request, I book marked your blog, I'm following you
on twitter. <br/><br/>Watch for my FarmVille invite!! (I need horse shoes to raise my stable!)<br/><br/>*opens new browser tab and types 'Jane McGonigal' in my Google search field*<br/><br/>*bookmarks <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_McGonigal"><cite>en.wikipedia.org/wiki/<b>Jane</b>_<b>McGonigal</b></cite></a>*<br/><br/>I am very much inspired by Jane's philosophy of using the power of play to
transmute reality. <br/><br/><br/><br/><br/>
<br/>Try living for a week on $2 a day.tag:www.urgentevoke.com,2010-03-04:4871302:BlogPost:111962010-03-04T05:30:00.000ZThe Garden Earth Projecthttp://www.urgentevoke.com/profile/TheGardenEarthProject
Of the 33 secrets, I think this one, "Try living for a week on $2 a day", may hold the very secret to our survival as a species. <br/><br/>Contemplating . . . <br/><br/>. . . are there any creatures other than Human's who depend upon a monetary system to acquire their most basic survival needs such as food and shelter? <br/><br/>. . . is this unique to us? <br/><br/>. . . is currency exchange an evolution or a devolution in the behavior of living organisms?<br/><br/><br/><br/>
Of the 33 secrets, I think this one, "Try living for a week on $2 a day", may hold the very secret to our survival as a species. <br/><br/>Contemplating . . . <br/><br/>. . . are there any creatures other than Human's who depend upon a monetary system to acquire their most basic survival needs such as food and shelter? <br/><br/>. . . is this unique to us? <br/><br/>. . . is currency exchange an evolution or a devolution in the behavior of living organisms?<br/><br/><br/><br/>Hello World!tag:www.urgentevoke.com,2010-03-03:4871302:BlogPost:100092010-03-03T23:30:00.000ZThe Garden Earth Projecthttp://www.urgentevoke.com/profile/TheGardenEarthProject
This is my first blog on Evoke. I learned about this new effort of Jane McGonigal from TED 2010. This looks very exciting. I'm looking forward to participating!<br/><br/>First project: Poking around the site a bit and getting the lay of the land.<br/>
This is my first blog on Evoke. I learned about this new effort of Jane McGonigal from TED 2010. This looks very exciting. I'm looking forward to participating!<br/><br/>First project: Poking around the site a bit and getting the lay of the land.<br/>