Renegade
Gardening Instead Of
Who Is President
Gardening, especially
public, renegade gardening,
is one of the most
important things conscious
and awakening people can do
right now to affect
global change in favor of
good health, a sound
environment, and personal
liberty--Alex
Pietrowski, Staff Writer,
Waking Times
The following three paragraphs
are directly from RealFarmacy.com.
As
someone who loves gardening, the
message resonates well with me!
The most effective
change-makers in our society
aren't waiting around for a
new
president to make their lives
better, they're planting
seeds, quite literally,
and through the revolutionary
act of gardening, they're
rebuilding their
communities while growing
their own independence.
Every four years when the big
election comes around,
millions of people put
their passion for creating a
better world into an
increasingly corrupt and
absurd political contest. What
if that energy was instead
invested in something
worthwhile, something that
directly and immediately
improved life, community,
and the world at large?
The simple act of growing our
own food directly challenges
the control matrix
in many authentic ways, which
is why some of the most
forward-thinking and
strongest-willed people are
picking up shovels and
defiantly starting gardens.
It has become much more of a
meaningful political statement
than supporting
political parties and
candidates.
Take, for example, Richard
Reynolds, the UK's 'Guerilla
Gardener' who since
2004 has transformed derelict
sites and buildings around south
London, through
stealthy overnight planting.
He has since become a media
sensation all over the world and
now does plantings
in broad daylight! Reynolds has
been blocked and even attacked
by mindless city
hall bureaucrats (read: thugs),
who just take a delight in
trashing every
community initiative and seem
hell-bent on creating a dismal
lifeless
environment for citizens to live
in. Check out Reynolds
achievements at: http://www.guerrillagardening.org
Guerilla
Food
Reynolds mostly grows flowers,
to strengthen and nurture hearts
and souls.
How about vegetables, also to
strengthen the heart? Ron
Finley, a renegade
gardener from Los Angeles, has
taken that direction. He is a
revolutionary who
is waging guerilla war on the
corporate food system, which, he
says enslaves
Mankind:
I live in a food prison. It's
all by design just like
prisons are designed. I
just got tired of being an
inmate. So I figured, let me
change this paradigm,
let me grown my own food. This
is one thing I can do to
escape this predestined
life that I have unwillingly
subscribed to.
The environment he is planting
could hardly be more hostile. It
is basically
desert in South Central Los
Angeles, the area that made
drive-by shootings
famous. Finley started out by
planting in the little patch of
abandoned ground
and weeds between the road and
the sidewalk. It just grew from
there (excuse
the pun!)
Again, the city hall bureaucrats
attempted to regulate him by
issuing a
citation, then placing a warrant
out for his arrest, but a swift
public
backlash against the
totalitarian idiocy of the
charges against him helped him
gain notoriety from the
community, and support from city
officials.
This represents another win for
the food freedom movement, much
like what
recently happened in Florida
when city policy was overturned
and a young couple
was able to continue gardening
in their own front yard.
"Growing
your own food is like printing
money,"
says Finley, who also
shares the simple wisdom of how
to get kids to
eat kale and tomatoes. "If kids
grow kale, they eat kale. If
they grow
tomatoes, they eat tomatoes. But
when none of this is presented
to them, if
they're not shown how food
affects the mind and the body,
they blindly eat
whatever the hell is in front of
then."
Food
Freedom = Political Freedom
You can't be free in a system
that has total control over your
food. So, for
today's citizen, growing at
least some of your own food is
an act of political
rebellion. Mind you, it can get
you in big trouble.
In 2011, Julie Bass of Oak Park,
Michigan was charged with a
misdemeanor and
threatened with jail time for
planting a vegetable garden in
her front garden.
In British Columbia, Dirk Becker
was threatened with six months
in jail for
converting an acre of his
2.5-acre lot into an organic
farm. The owner spent
over a decade healing the land
and converting a barren plot
into a
self-contained ecosystem that is
now home to thriving vegetable
crops, fruit
trees, bees, butterflies, birds,
frogs, dragonflies and more.
In 2013, city inspectors
bulldozed more than 100 types of
plants, including
garlic chives, strawberry and
apple mint, being grown by
Denise Morrison in
Tulsa, Oklahoma. The inspectors
said her plants were too tall,
but city code
allows for plants over 12 inches
if they're meant for human
consumption, which
hers were.
Steve Miller was fined $5,200
for growing vegetables in his
Clarkston, Georgia
backyard, which he not only
consumed but also sold at
farmers markets and
shared with friends.
One could easily suppose that
the food industry is bribing
officials to get
this grass roots movement
stopped (much like Big Pharma
wants grass roots
healing criminalized).
What To
Do?
Anna Hunt from Waking Times
has some helpful hints:
It is easy to think that
growing your own food is
difficult, but the hardest
part is the first plant. Once
you realize what a joy it is
to re-connect with
your food, and just how easy
and fun gardening is, you'll
thank yourself...
There are numerous resources
that offer information about
home food
cultivation; some are provided
below. Perhaps you'll be faced
with some
interesting battles with your
local government authorities,
but you might also
start a trend that transforms
your hometown into an edible
town. And you'll
also be doing your duty to
ensure that future generations
are able to exercise
the basic right to grow
nutritious food.
Home Gardening
Resources:
What About
Hydroponics?
And, as it happens, this piece
was inspired by a visit to a
hydroponics
facility here in Las Vegas.
Gardening is on my mind right
now. Growing your own
food, as Finley says (jokingly)
is "gangster" or "gangsta", a
neologism (new word) meaning
cool!
Viv and I recently bought
ourselves a hydroponic tower
(don't, by the way--you
can get them on eBay but NOT
recommended). Frustrated by the
difficulties of
this murderously dry climate (1
- 2 % humidity some days; we
have to spray the
inside of our noses), I felt we
needed to see what was working
here is the
desert.
The result was a very pleasant
afternoon at a 5,000 sq. ft.
indoor vertical
hydroponic facility with master
grower Tom Skancke in south Las
Vegas. We saw
vegetables being raised on
vertical sheets, from seeds to
full-size edible
plants in 4 weeks. That's
awesome! Turns out we had been
eating some of his
produce at one of our favorite
restaurants.
Here are some pictures... which
just about tells the whole
story.

Enough to supply 100 homes on
one wall!

Lettuce. Lots of it!

Tom Skancke, master grower
Growing-your-own is definitely
radical stuff. You need to love
it, to feel it's
worth the effort. But if you
like fresh food, there is
nothing better than
growing your own. PLUS we can
solve the planet's food needs
through
"Aquaponic", "Hydroponic",
"Aeroponic" and "Algae" farming.
Who cares about presidents
slugging it out over status?
Dr. Keith Scott-Mumby
The Official
Alternative Doctor
P.S.
couldn’t
miss boasting my own
green-fingered efforts. I
turned a grass field into this
in 5 years.

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