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Gardening

Level

5/99

Experience

XXX

Why​

Contrary to the digital garden here, I would love to have a real garden. I think it's especially important in our times. Food quality is all-time low, processed food everywhere, sugar laden foods everywhere, preservative, pesticide, herbicide, and fungicide laden foods everywhere. Best what we can eat is organic food from our own garden.

What to produce​

Foods that I am planning to grow as soon as I get a patch of land:

Crops​

  • Dill
  • Cilantro
  • Aloe
  • Celery
  • [Medicinal] Cannabis

Bushes​

  • Blueberry
  • Gooseberry or Raspberry

Vines​

Trees​

  • Avocado
  • Papaya

I would like to research these plants more, to figure out how to grow and care for them in order to start off with a good foot.

How to produce​

Conventional farming​

  • Mineral fertilizer salts are ruining the soil and its microorganism composition
  • Pesticides, fungicides and herbicides unavoidable end up in the food itself

Organic farming​

Contrary to conventional farming, no dangerous substances for human health or the soil are used.

Benefits​

  • Better nutrition, if freshly harvested then it is ALIVE, available electron count is high.
  • Not harming health
  • Regenerative for the soil

Drawbacks​

  • Organic certification is easy to fake, easy to simply start labelling stuff as organic and easy to stop being organic after acquiring the cert.
  • Organic farms can be nearby chemical farms, thus all the harmful substances can get onto organic farms by air, water and soil.
  • It is indeed simply harder to grow organic. When produce is good - all forms of life want to eat it! So unless you are smart with how you grow - nature might eat your crops faster :)

Permagarden​

Not much is know about this by me yet. AFAIK it is planting together plants that exist and co-exist together in nature. Helping each other to fend off insects etc.

Biodynamic farming​

Started off from Rudolf Steiners' 6 lections on agriculture. Yet to become well acquainted by the works of Steiner, however from what I understand he has been preparing the masses for these lections throughout his time. Possibly the most advanced and hardest form of farming. Involves making 8-9 biodynamic preparations and interacting with the Spirit realm (making it spiritual farming). Apparently has the best potential for soil as well as Earth regeneration.