10 Simple, Cheap Home Gardening Innovations to Set You on the Path to Food Independence (All you need to get started)

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Vatic Note:  Its not just about food quality and independance, its about exercising your body, the way it was meant to be done and what it was built for as we find out  when we start to do the things that use the muscles, tendons, ligaments and joints as they were suppose to be used based on how our bodies were put together.  Its a perfect match and why so many people enjoy working in the garden.

What else does it do?  It reconnects us to the soil, water, sunshine and all the things that bring seeds to life without all the perversions.  AND feeds us as well.  Ask yourself, why does your body heal quicker when you go barefoot in the dirt and sit in the sun and fresh air?    You can still buy seeds from other seeds from the unchanged and natural seeds produced by nature and not Monsanto,  and grow real, natural, normal and basically "organic food" and eat less and live longer. You can now also do this indoors with the right equipment and lighting.

I started going organic years ago and lost 45 pounds in a year and my food bill was less.  How come?   I was eating real food, so it nourished me and I was no longer hungry all the time.   In fact, I found I could not eat all that I had put on my plate  so I started putting less on and going back for seconds if I "really" wanted more.

Yes, it cost more, but I ate less and less and thus my actual food bill went down, my energy went up and I am tons healthier than I was. I swear by organic foods.,  you know the ones that start with a "9" number on a label in the produce dept and and the number is splashed onto the fruits themselves on little stickers?

Read and watch the videos, its part of our commitment to "truth", and education where we can get back to caring for ourselves and not needing others to do it for us.   That is how you begin to lose your freedom is when your life depends on others and that makes you vulnerable to their evil or good will.

We no longer have family farms, rather agricorps that are cruel to the animals which fills them with adrenalin poisoning and thus affects our bodies.  Animals treated humanely and naturally provide us with what we need to stay healthy.  These agrifarms also use Monsanto killer GMO seeds, which has proven to be very bad for healing our DNA and destroying our organs slowly but surely. Again, its not "real food", rather its man made food from engineered seeds.  Not good.

10 Simple, Cheap Home Gardening Innovations to Set You on the Path to Food Independence (All you need to get started)
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Posted on December 10, 2013

The issue of food quality and food independence is of critical importance these days, and people are recognizing just how easy and fun it is to grow your own food at home.

by Alex Pietrowski, News Beacon Ireland

© 2013 Waking Times
published on Waking Times 7 Dec 2013
republished here under the term of Fair Use



The issue of food quality and food independence is of critical importance these days, and people are recognizing just how easy and fun it is to grow your own food at home.

When renegade gardener Ron Finley said, “growing your own food is like printing money,” he was remarking on the revolutionary nature of re-establishing control over your health and your pocket book as a means of subverting the exploitative and unhealthy food systems that encourage the over-consumption of processed and fast foods.  (VN: in other words,  go back to eating real food instead of the card board they put in boxes and call it food.)

Thanks to the internet, the availability of parts and materials, and good old-fashioned ingenuity, there is a wide range of in-home, and in-apartment, gardening systems that are easy to construct and maintain, and that can provide nutritious, organic, and low-cost food for you and your family. Once you realize jut how rewarding home gardening can be, it is tremendously fun to experiment with different systems and ideas for best producing your favorite healthy, fresh fruits and veggies.

Since everyone’s gardening space, interests and budgets differ, here are 10 simple ideas and how to’s for getting a small, affordable, and easy to construct gardening system up and running in your home.

Aquaponics

Aquaponics is growing in popularity as a versatile method of growing nutritious vegetables while raising fish, combining hydroponic gardening with aquaculture. Systems can be built to fit in almost any location, indoors or outdoors, and can be designed for almost any crop or edible fish.

Read: Aquaponic Gardening: A Step-By-Step Guide to Raising Vegetables and Fish Together

Here is a simple affordable home aquaponics system that can be adapted. Be sure to read the comments below the video for additional insight and afterthoughts on this simple system…



http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=AaKDQiWYJow

This is a great example of an apartment size indoor aquaponics system…



http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=rIyxxkhfFhs

Vertical Gardening

Vertical gardening is a terrific method of growing more plants in a smaller area by constructing standing or hanging planters that can house many plants in a small space.

Read: Vertical Gardening: Grow Up, Not Out, for More Vegetables and Flowers in Much Less Space

The easy and affordable example below can be adapted for many different fruits and veggies, or scaled for larger purposes…





http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=6-3tGVpbsa8

The following video is an example of a simple and cheap, stand-up pallet vertical garden…



http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=qOadilqJeeg

Simple Greenhouse Designs

Greenhouses are imperative for starting many types of edible plants and can also offer protection against some garden pests while increasing the length of your growing season.

Read: Greenhouse Gardener’s Companion, Revised: Growing Food & Flowers in Your Greenhouse or Sunspace

Easy to build hoop house green house how-to…



http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=-DKlXs8iov0

How to build a backyard fence-rested greenhouse…



http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=j87VqVsKBdo

Cold Frames for Winter Gardening

Cold frames are an excellent and affordable way of growing nutritious ground crops in colder climates and during the winter…

Read: Backyard Winter Gardening: Vegetables Fresh and Simple, In Any Climate without Artificial Heat or Electricity the Way It’s Been Done for 2,000 Years

Simple winter cold frame garden…



http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=r6m6pfN6klU

Composting

Composting is an essential part of every garden, is the best way to dispose of everyday organic kitchen refuse, and provides free plant-food for your garden.

Read: Let it Rot!: The Gardener’s Guide to Composting (Third Edition) (Storey’s Down-To-Earth Guides)

3-bin compost system using free pallets…



http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=66tLQVUcHdI

Cheap do-it-yourself worm composter…



http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=cBxGfogV-s4

Ideas for Apartment Gardening

Living in an apartment can mean you have to be more creative and imaginative with the space you have. Here are some resources and ideas for finding and setting up your apartment garden.

Read: Apartment Gardening: Plants, Projects, and Recipes for Growing Food in Your Urban Home

Here are some useful tips on finding space for your apartment garden…



http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=HC_EDFnhl-E

We hope that you find the inspiration to find out for yourself just how easy, fun, and liberating home gardening can be as further stress on our collective food systems continues to drive up prices and drive down nutrition.

Gardening is both addictive and contagious, so be prepared to have fun, grow some tasty food, and meet some new friends once your neighbors hear about your success.
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About the Author

Alex Pietrowski is an artist and writer concerned with preserving good health and the basic freedom to enjoy a healthy lifestyle. He is a staff writer for WakingTimes.com and an avid student of Yoga and life.

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