clever ways to grow

Let all be fine and well,

The sun and moon shine brightly on us all, let them be our guides for unity! This is site

is dedicated to improving the environment by showing you how to use sustainable techniques

such as reusing (recylcing) empty bottles and converting them into containers to be used

for plant nurseries.

- These designs can be used for home, garden, school, community centers, or farm.

- This type of nursery is designed to use the earth’s natural energies for promoting plant

growth.

-made from 100% reused materials

- Nearly maintenance free

- Easy enough for a child to use

- Fast and efficient

- does not require much water (you can use “grey water”

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Aquaponic terrariums

This type of gardening system employs both water and soil, and uses the process of

vaporization to keep the plants hydrated. Each plant is grown individually in its own

terrarium. Using a reused (recylced) soda bottles and plastic totes the system can grow

lettuce or produce clones in a week to two weeks.

How to build a system:

the materials are:

soda bottles (cut to become terrariums)

1 10 gallon plastic tote

rocks a little larger than the soda bottle hole

coconut fiber (called coco coir)

the procedure:

cut holes into the top of the plastic tote with a 1′ drill bit. then
insert the plastic bottles. next, cut the bottles in half and slice
two quarter inch slits into the top one on each side(so that its

easier to put the two halves back together). now put the top of the tote back onto

the plastic tote and add water to the bottles (the extra water will

drain into the tote), fill until there is a gallon of water in the

tote. then add coconut fiber and place a cutting into each bottle. put

the top of the bottles back on making terrariums. its that easy!

cut in half, fill the top half with soil (sand,coco,compost,minerals) and insert a wick

(nylon or hemp) into the spout. Now insert the top into the bottom (spout side down), the

wick should touch the base. Next pour water on the soil, it should seep through to the

bottom. The water will be sucked up and evaporate every few days, refill.

How to start a garden.

Starting seeds

* seeds like clean environments. use castile soap to prepare materials.

* place seeds on a moist cheese cloth, on a plate.
* add water, and change water everyday.

* cover with another cheese cloth, and an upside plate on top, give room for air.

* soon you’ll see life and roots growing.

* plant the embrios when mature and healthy.

* don’t forget to water and transplant into a bigger pot, you’re a parent!

Maintaining your garden

1. collect organic seeds (from friends, garden, organic, non gmo produce from stores)

2. start a seed library. people can check seeds out and back in from seeds they collect at

harvest.

3. prepare the soil by stirring the ground (add humus, peat moss, vermiculite, perlite,

worms, sand, minerals, and other nutrients.

4. plant seeds according to zone season,sun. make sure seeds are properly cared for.

5. plant flowers in the first quarter of the new moon.

6. know your zones.

7. know many varieties and uses for plants

8. use weeds.

9. seeds like to hibernate in clean, cool dark places.

10. safe space for storing seeds (sterility, clean and healthy, no chemicals)

11. use castile soaps to clean spaces and for pest deterent.

12. use chili, garlic, and mint for pest deterent (mix a few grains with water, and spray)

13. become familiar with plant families.

14. remember that the ground is a living organism, a hole is a womb.

15. check your soil for toxins.

16. learn many ways to make the most life.

17. plants need nutrition, good soil, light, dark, love, and water.

18. use companion planting, plants with lots of friends attract more flying friendlies to

pollinate.

19. when you sow seeds yourself you know what they look like as they grow. this way

tendying to them is easier.

20. don’t pull any plant that you don’t know the name and use for.

21. weeds feed insects and pests. if there are no weeds, they’ll eat your garden.

22. arrange your seedlings according to type and how much space you’ll need.
23. if you grow vertically with fanciful hills and trellisses you’ll get a better yield.

Container Gardening

To grow healthy container plants, you need to do a little research about your plants. For

example, how far apart should they be? How tall will they grow? This is particularly

important if you are planting a window box with a variety of plants. For example, if

sunflowers need constant sun, don’t plant them with a flower that cannot endure full sun.

companion planting is helpful for maximum potential. In container gardening, you also need

to ensure that plants have effective drainage and good soil. Place small rocks at the

bottom of your containers so water will drain, and dampen potting soil before placing it

in the pot.

Harvesting the garden

Take plants and seeds for harvest just before or at their peak (some seeds can be

harvested long after their peak when they are dry. e.g. corn, amaranth, onion, garlic,

greens). Prepare an area for drying by cleaning it with castile soap and allowing to

completely dry. Like young seedlings harvests should be done in a clean environment. If

you are collecting tomatoes remember they ripen quickest in darness rather than light.

potatoes, pumpkins and squash can be stored in a cool, clean basement.You can save your

vegetable seeds by drying them (you can use a plate, or the top of a plastic container,

piece of wood, metal, etc.) . If You are hanging plants don’t forget to make sure there is

good airflow, or there will be mold.

How to start a seed library

- first collect enough seeds to share.

- dry and store seeds.

A good seed library starts with good gardeners. Before you start handing out seeds you

should provide courses in gardening (and free seeds) to individuals interested in seed

sharing. Next, each individual checks out an appropriate number of seeds for their garden,

after harvesting participants can check-in seeds from their harvest. These individuals

might also be willing to help teach the next generation of seed library gardeners.

How to pick and prepare produce for sale and presentation;

1). Produce must be free from insects.

2). Grocers want produce in small, medium, and large size bunches.

3). Bunches (of each size), must be equal.

4).When removing produce, pick largest first.

5). One does not need to kill plants to pick produce

How is a garden a symbol of the anarchical freedom we are intended to possess?

Everywhere you look things are commodified. many things don’t come free, even if you can

get them that way. Governments, regardless of leaning, still require people to pay money

for food. No one can live without food, therefore, people become dependent upon the

systems created by the government, often to their detriment, in order to get food and

live. In cases where altruistic communities arise it is often those with the biggest

bounty who give away the most freely. why can’t we all live like this? In many communities

resources are fought over, tooth and nail.  The people who give the most are often forced,

by an agressor who wishes to sell the product.  This is a viscious cycle of life that does

not enable a person to become successful at their highest potential. It requires males and

females to compete, and often forced into harmful situations. Our creators did not intend

for us to live life like this, but they did give us the freedom to choose for ourselves.
A garden is a revolutionary act of defiance and anarchy on one side, and a simple means of

creating your own sustinance on the other. It does not require; an army,genius, schooling

, or a lot of money (for the resourceful, it requires none). It does require

space,time,compost,soil,seeds,water,and love. These may seem like strange items for a

revolution, but like most shifts in consciousness these items can become very important.

Many gardens are popping up in formerly abandoned areas. With too much money spent on war,

the despotic powers don’t have concern yet for quiet gardeners. Somewhere a weed slowly

grows through cement. Many vacant lots are owned by people who don’t even live in your

town, or by banks that use your money to make more money.  When you see the pleased faces

of your neighbors, you’ll know gardening is a way to overthrow the government, when people

become collectivized, we notice that the more we meet a community’s needs the less hassle

we get from police. Food not Bombs collectives around the country have experienced a level

of tolerance from police, because their are too many starving in Amercian streets for

churches to handle. The derilect has become the scapegoat of the New World Order, but they

create and maintain homelessness, and poverty. When a garden is created, a pillar of the

empire is crushed. If the world relied on its own ingenuity and once again fed itself, and

shared the wealth we would see the rise of agrarian societies. Even the governments would

crumble as soldiers returned home to forge plowshares from their weapons. there would be

no one to bully another in a world where a hole in the ground is respected as a womb. Why

bomb another, when you can look forward to one of their exotic and tasty crops? Why

endeavor to have a standardized world or nation, when their are so many juicy differences?

why have just apples, when there is so much fruit? with so many benefits. Our bodies were

designed to function best when we have a varied diet of healthy fruits and vegetables.

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