America's first sustainable urban agrihood in Detroit. "The three-acre development has vacant land, along with occupied and abandoned homes centered around a two-acre urban garden, with more than 300 organic vegetable varieties, like lettuce, kale, and carrots, as well as a 200-tree fruit orchard, with apples, pears, plums, and cherries, a children’s sensory garden, and more."
-eat less meat -eat more meat substitutes -reduce our agricultural footprint -increase the amount of land given over to wild animals and nature preserves
It's time for humans to embrace Garden Earth. Lots of ancient peoples exploited their environments unsustainabl yand hunted species to extinction. But some of their descendents learned from their mistakes and developed cultural pathways, aka social technologies, to keep their usage of Earth's bounty in balance.
To be small enough to fit in most places (the diameter of the base is 7 inches).
To be self contained with everything needed to grow a plant.
To be passive / automated / hands off - plant the seed, wait six weeks, harvest.
To be exceedingly cheap (with bulk supplies, the individual unit cost comes out to about $10)
Not require a lot of maintenance.
To be simple to make.
To be powered by a wall socket or USB battery (for folks charging batteries using one off solar panels).
This answers the obstacles of hydroponics being portrayed as requiring an expensive startup cost, having dedicated or expansive space for hydroponic growing, require special or complex equipment, or special knowledge and skills.
IT'S ADHD FRIENDLY!!!!
Start growing whenever you get around to it. Doesn't require following growing seasons. Once you start growing, you can forget about it until it's done growing.
This grow bin utilizes the Kratky method of hydroponics.
Seed Library Launch (coinciding with Earth Day) has been posted to the events page of my local library. A couple weeks later will be my Hydroponics for Beginners.
My course will focus on hydroponics growing with a focus on indoor, inexpensive, and passive means. Additional info will be given on mutual aid and community fridges. We'll end with everyone taking home a full grow kit (1-gallon bin, with halo grow lights, nutrients, and grow medium). We'll get our first seeds from the seed library!!!
When your friend sends you a DM on a hacker channel and whispers to you, "Hey... I just got a hold of some seeds of some local native fruit bearing trees.... wanna guerilla arborist with me?!?!"
Hahahahaha!!!!
This is the life of crime I signed up for! Hahahaha!
Seen on Reddit. This is AMAZING and I love the creativity and style. The very idea that a high-viz jacket/vest could actually look good is so foreign, and yet here we are! #cycling#fuckcars#nocars#solarpunk#bikes#creative
I really think the fediverse #solarpunk and #anarchy groups should host a few eco servers and play around with virtual theory and practice. The whole ability to build laws and government into the game is wild, and the need for enough people in a server to support an economy and skill specialization that working as a community that communicates with each other is a great way to practice social skills alot of Very Online folks have fewer opportunities to develop 😉 🤲🏻
Went out and distributed food to our neighbors at the food pantry tonight.
We had enough left over afterwards to stock up the community pantry & free fridge.
We ran out of room. So I took boxes of fresh turnips and boxes of cereal home for storage. I'll push them out to the community fridge and pantry this week as there is room.
We have the literal ability to feed everyone for free. And we can. And we are.
I'm looking to create a few relatively small and self contained solar-powered farm systems- one for compost aeration on a timer, another for greenhouse automatic roll-up sides with a thermostat. There are general guidelines available but I can't find detailed instructions.
1- Does anyone know of schematics available?
2- Do you want to build some with me?
Have a picture of one of his fields. Farm run by an awesome couple in Western MA.
