Organic Gardening
Cool Little video found on Cyrus Suttons Vimeo page.
UGROW ORGANICS from Cyrus Sutton on Vimeo.
I visited the web site at ugroworganics.com and its still a work in progress. I'm going to be checking back periodically to see how it progresses.
I've been wanting to re-do the old garden in our backyard, maybe this summer. I have fond memories of the gardens my family had while I was young. We had corn, beets, turnips, cucumbers (Jesse & Danny's Cucumber patch, our equivalence of an allowance) and much more. Not only could it be a source of healthy pesticide-free foods, it can save money and be a fun family project to work on. Some interesting statistics from various sources...
- 2.5 million gallons of pesticides are used on our food every year
- Typical American diets feature 60-70 toxic chemicals daily
- One of the major causes of degradation of the food supply is poor soil. Poor soil is the result of modern farming techniques.
Edit: Here's some interesting follow-up found on The Cleanest Line
KEEP OUT OF REACH OF CHILDREN - Industry reps fear organic garden
The industry in question is the agroindustrial genetically manipulated monocrop chemicalification comglomerate. It's a mouthful, which is why folks in this business like to refer to themselves as representatives of "conventional agriculture," companies like Monsanto, Dow AgroSciences and DuPont Crop Protection. Let's leave aside for a moment the fact that our friends in the agroindustrial complex have been hard at work redefining "conventional agriculture" to mean "requiring the extensive use of synthetically engineered petroleum-based fertilizers to biologically barren soils with the aim of promoting growth of genetically manipulated, non-replicating seed-like products, upon which vast quantities of industrially designed petroleum-derived biocides must be applied."
Read the rest here...
1 comments:
when you're ready to grow, check out Soil Soup. we've got the website bookmarked somewhere. wish we got to live anywhere long enough to make it a reality for us!
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