'Can YOU solve the problems of the world in Your garden'?

Question

Can You solve the problems of the world in your garden?

How?

Quote:

'You can solve the problems of the world in a garden

- Geoff Lawton'

http://permaculture.org.au/what-is-permaculture/

Answer 1

Don't you just hate it when the first person to answer gives a really good answer, and you can't really add much? So ditto for me on everything Byderule said!

I cannot solve the world's problems, but I can solve my own problems.

I wish everyone would grow a garden...even just a few plants in a container garden!  People would learn so very much about nature and the world around us if they did!  People seem to judge the seasons now by what decorations are in the malls and stores.

They don't know what the actual signs of the changing seasons are where they live.  It makes me terribly sad for these people that they are missing so much of what is REAL in the world.

I've been drooling over seed catalogs for months now.  Radishes are always my first plant I'm able to harvest.  Do you have any idea how much I'm looking forward to pulling those first radishes out of the soil, and rinsing them off, and munching them right there in the garden!  Oh bliss!

It snowed two inches here yesterday....I swear spring will never be here!  

People in my neighborhood give homegrown honey in jars, and homemade jams, jellies, and pickles, as well as homemade breads, and cookies as gifts to their neighbors.  

How lovely is it to be able to visit one of my very elderly member of my Church, and take them fresh, homegrown produce.  Then they launch into lovely stories about how, and what they grew as a child growing up with their parents.  A ripe tomato in their hands turns into a crystal ball, brining them a smile, and memories, and smells of their past.

What's not to LOVE about a garden!

~Garnet

Homesteading/Farming over 20 years

Answer 2

No there i can solve most of my own problems.

grow my food and medicines

generate my energy

create my own paradise and

make life comfortable for My visitors and my self.

Create possibilities that will bring in money

to buy what i do not have.

And help a few others who are nearby.

But this will fall far short of solving the problems of the World.

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But if EVERYONE in the world HAD a garden.

MOST of the world problems would be solved.

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VIVA agro -Urbanization,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoRjz8iTV...

We need more Urban gardens and Urbanization that plans for growing food  

More people to use their freeholds and back gardens to grow something instead of grass for a lawn or a horse



More people to return to the country side and buy a farm with a few friends and turn it in to a green way of life

WHY ???

FOR LIFE WITH A BETTER QUALITY

TO BE INDEPENDENT

TO BE HEALTHY

to combat rising food prices ,

take the pressure of Farming

and ensure healthier food production

to combat water shortage and air pollution

because this will add to the bio mass ,

and raise more Humidity

Solve Health and economic problems

Help the Environment by less need for people to travel

And make a lot of Industry and Agriculture obsolete

As well as Making people Independent of governments and the services they provide.Such as sewage ,Energy  and transport ,Medical services ,production of Chemicals etc etc .

Most politicians could go home and grow roses.

there would be less crime or need for war ,so a lot of cops and soldiers can become gardeners .

We need to return to an overall  Garden culture

http://byderule.multiply.com/journal/ite...

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Bella you enticed me into ranting revolution

they will be coming for me now



Head for the hills,

Answer 3

Most of them, not all.

To solve World Famine you would require one heck of a garden !

Answer 4

Byde, Chida, and the rest - it would be grand if all lived that way.  Great, great answers.

But....

I think that with all of the other distractions in the world, the ease of skipping off to the grocery store instead of harvesting, the impact of the megacorporations, and the distractions of the electonic world,  I fear that having a truly righteous garden is like wetting yourself in a dark suit - it gives you a warm feeling, but no one notices.

Answer 5

yaay permaculture and biochar will save the world!

i have half an acre to play with, so i have been doing my bit. it was bare clay 10 years ago, i mulch, plant trees and fruit bushes, add charcoal and chalk, now in places it has a foot deep of brown soil - love those worms, love those mycorhyza..

we have lost an incredible half of all carbon in topsoil in the last 100 years, replacing it would pull out a good deal of the extra carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

http://terrapreta.bioenergylists.org/

In a recent letter (yesterday), Jim Hansen says:

"There is tremendous potential for reducing atmospheric CO2 via reduction of

deforestation, improved forestry practices, and improved agricultural practices that

increase carbon storage in the soil. If governments were to encourage such practices,

rather than the converse, and if coal use were phased out except where the CO2 is

captured, it would be possible to literally roll back the net human-made climate forcing to

levels below those defining critical tipping points."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terra_preta

http://www.css.cornell.edu/faculty/lehma...

http://agron.scijournals.org/cgi/content...

(usda)

oh, and totally, wot byderule said.

Answer 6

Thank you for the link.  *L* I didn't realize there was a name for what I do in the back yard.  I thought I was just cheap and didn't like to spend money to haul away yard waste and buy fertilizer.  I thought I was just lazy and didn't like to weed or carry water.

I have been reading "The Omnivore's  Dilemma" and giving thought to the vast corn-scapes that have taken over the pastures where I grew up.  Farmers back home have been sold on the idea that monoculture is the only way to make a living.  

We have a tough sell to change their minds, and until we change their minds, we are not going to solve the problems of the world.  It's a good goal, though.n fact, it's an essential goal.

Answer 7

Protect what you got.  You're going to become much "in demand".

I told my best buddy neighbor I will build it and I'll share if he helps me protect it.  I said buy guns.

He said, I got plenty of guns, now I just buy ammo.

Not really on topic, but it's the first thing I thought of.

Answer 8

We have an Allotment where we grow our own veggies and use leaf mould to lay a bed for new potatoes etc..... Its the most relaxing and clean way of living where we reap the rewards of our efforts..... It would would be lovely for the world to try it .......

Answer 9

yup.

1. global warming - plant more trees

2. pollution - plant more trees and use organic waste as manure (eggs,vegetable peel,etc.)

3. dullness, anger, stress - plant flowering and sweet smelling herbs, flowering plants,etc.

4. corruption - making man pure by making them realize the gifts god has given them and to be happy with what they have

5. sickness - growing medicinal herbs ........

Answer 10

One of my favourite quotes. We can solve the problems of the world by making gardens in rough derilict land, in deserts, on housing estates, on balconies. We just need to change the way we think. We can claim back our power by refusing to give big companies our money and by working together. We, collectively, are the best way to solve the problems in the world, not by giving some greedy company/government responsibilty to make the wrong choices for us.

http://www.pcuonline.org/PCUNewsletterJa...