In shopping around a self-sufficiency garden food system, it’s perhaps not surprising that I’ve come across doubts that such a drastically different approach would work. That is, provide a feasible alternative to the industrial food system, even though I’ve...
Time for another mini-post, this time about butterbeans.For over a hundred years, my family has handed down and grown what we’ve always called colored butterbeans. My great-grandma brought them with her when her family moved from Belhaven, N.C. to Roanoke Rapids in...
I can’t tell you the number of glowing accounts I’ve heard and seen about regenerative agriculture over the last few years. And it’s no wonder why. Guided by ecological principles, it promotes “regenerating” healthy soil to increase organic matter, water retention,...
Believe it or not, an insightful way to really “get” the value of ultra-local is to examine its extreme opposite: ultra-processed. Which these days is very on-point, because rising concerns about UPFs (ultra-processed foods) may well be moving us toward...
So far you’ve seen an introduction to the self-sufficiency garden system, how it relates to a broad description of farms and gardens, and what food self-sufficiency can mean. Next up: exploring why gardens are inherently far more efficient than farms, especially the...
Once in a while I’ll insert a mini-post having something to do with gardening, just as a break from the longer posts. So here is the first such.One day while walking through the rows of my garden corn plants, I came upon this little scene. A feather had blown in and...
