I have a copy of this little pamphlet called Fugitive Gardens, which is all about gardening in small spaces, such as a fire escape.

Container garden. I even had one on my North facing balcony in Baltimore.

I mean, you exported 90% of your agricultural produce back then, too.

Beans

He’s just the idiot in the front, there are real masterminds behind all this who are manipulating the orange dipshit to their advantage. Project 2025 is some scary shit for Americans and soon, earth as a whole.

Which bathrooms are the starvers allowed to use?

I am a successful gardener.

You can’t and don’t want to eat 20lbs of tomato in a week. I use maybe 2-4lbs and the rest of it rots or has to be given away. I’m lucky if consume 1/4 of what I produce.

And that’s how crops come in, all at the same time in abundance. It’s not like you can pick 4 tomatoes each day and they just hang out for weeks on the vine. There is about a 4-6 week widow in which all the stuff you have spent 5 months growing, is edible off the vine. You start in April and then you don’t really get anything until August, and then by Mid Sept, the plants stop producing and are dead by Oct.

And if you want to preserve it, that’s a lot more work and you need the space and equipment to store dozens and dozens of jarred/canned veg. And at that point it’s no longer a small kitchen garden.

oh and by the way if you give me that ‘community sharing!’ stuff. no. literally everyone’s crops are also coming in at the same time. that’s why you see people leaving baskets of veg on the stops all around and nobody takes it, because they already have their own from their own gardens.

That is very different from a commercial farm who is able to have dozens of rotating crops and crop varieties with the expertise to manage it and also the ability to distribute it commercially.

Also, groundhogs will fuck up your garden, and they dig tunnels and climb fences. You have to basically build a big cage around your garden, floor included.

In this world, what is not a man made problem though?

TLDR: Farmer who talks about all this: https://youtube.com/@farmtotaber

There’s lots of actual farmers who talk about the fertilizer situation. Since the start of agricultural subsidies we have pigeonholed our farmers into growing cash crops. Chemical companies clocked in and invested genetically modified strains of said cash crops that are resistant to their pesticides. All the while the US gov is pumping cash into the farm sector to overproduce crops for export. Farmers forgot how to farm without pesticides because there is too much tax payer money being funneled to grow the same cash crops year over year.

These new crops make it very easy to grow the most profitable crops but they require accompanying pesticides and fertilizers to be feasible.

We need to stop handing money to farmers and let them fail and open the playing field to new farms who can’t compete with government subsidized multi billion dollar “family farms”.

There’s a difference between supplemental gardening and full on self sufficient farming.

I had a garden for years that I started in the spring every year, and reduced my grocery bills by about half.

tomatoes, onions, carrots, garlic, potatoes and cucumbers are all staple crops that can be gardened in abundance on basically any 1/4 acre plot in the US. Most of these are either shelf stable for extended periods on their own or can be canned at home for winter use.

You do not need to replace your entire diet with home grown produce. Supplement the food you buy from the store with whatever you can grow in the small area you have. You can get a surprisingly good haul from 25ft².