Urban gardening survival secrets: some ways to grow food in any city even when your life depends on it
by: J. D. Heyes
NaturalNews.com
Monday, June 23, 2014
If you want to grow enough food for yourself and your family – enough that can sustain you in hard times – you’d need several acres of prime farmland, right?
In a word, no. All you need is some guidance on what to grow and how to grow it, as well as a few trips to the local home improvement store. Oh, and some friends who share your vision.
The community garden concept: An increasingly popular option in the urban/suburban environment is the concept of a “community garden.” As Natural News has reported in the past, this concept has been adopted by organic- and fresh-produce-minded people in cities large and small, and the movement is definitely “growing,” if you’ll pardon the pun.
One organization, in fact, is dedicated to the spread of a version of community gardening known as “urban farming” (which just happens to also be the name of the organization). The group began in 2005 with just “three gardens and a pamphlet.” Today, its website boasts over 62,300 “residential, community and partner gardens that are part of ‘The Urban Farming Global Food Chain(R).'”
The concept is simple: Find an empty lot and get together with your neighbors to plant, cultivate and harvest a range of crops. Everybody shares in the labor and everybody shares in the harvest.
Now, for individual efforts:
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