"I love that you've brought this to attention. An extensive database of uncommon but resistant and hardy plants/foods could be developed and organized by climate. Ease of growth and processing should also be taken in to account. I will try to…"
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From seeds. From scratch.
I garden. A yard to garden in was one of the major reasons that i opted for a room in a falling down group house in a somewhat dicey part of town, instead of an apartment, elsewhere. But before I had that yard, I gardened anyway. In windowsills, in a community garden plot, with a jury-rigged sort-of-hyroponic setup under the fluorescent lights at my office. I grew sprouts and shoots in cupboards, and I fed our food scraps to a box of red wriggler worms, who turned them into excellent fertilizer for my modest food growing projects.
I'll be moving across the country from my house with a yard, in a few months. But right now, I've been trying to make sure my housemates know how to keep it up. I've briefed all 5 of them on how to deal with the compost heap. I have one student, in particular, who i intend to entrust the keeping of the plants to.
I have helped start a small satellite garden at the house of a friend. And we're building self watering containers for my own and her roof and other sunny spaces.
I'm logging all the fruit trees I can find on this site: http://www.neighborhoodfruit.com/ (which is awesome, check it out)
I'm also teaching as many of my friends as possible how to recognize the edible plants growing all around us. And I am something of an evangelist when it comes to gardening. Here are some great resources, if you'd like to start trying your own hand at food production, no matter what kind of space you have available.
http://www.chelseagreen.com/bookstore/item/fresh_food_from_small_sp... (a book, and you must buy it, to read it ... but it's worth the investment)
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