Home Farming – Looking back for the future
The convenience of harvesting your own produce is also cost effective, sustainable and tasty, of course we can add nutritious. The idea of growing vegetables, fruits, berries and small livestock is called home farming.
Joan Kerr’s home gardens ( front and back yard) is full of food, flowers and beauty. Having planted food interspersed edible flowers, perennials, herbs and berries for more than thirty years has given Joan the knowledge to share and encourage others to do the same.
To launch the home farming concept, fbsc.org, though its Windfields Community & Teaching Gardens Project, cultivated the Oshawa Victory Garden an as example of an easily replicated model used used for growing food during both worlds wars.
The model has a prescribed schemata that includes: potato, turnip, corn, tomato, beans, parsnip,
beets, carrots, peas, cucumber,and squash.
We are embracing this model, and expanding it to include other vegetables, fruit and berries, and also canning/preserving your harvest, storing, fermenting, dehydrating, and cooking.
Help to reach our goal of 300 people who are home farming by 2015.
Join us and share ideas as we grow our own food, caring and maintaining, control pests, canning and storing and finally tasting the harvest.
There is just something wonderful about knowing what you grow and eat.
The case for Edible City
It is possible to shift from the buying groceries to producing food. Being a prosumer (producing what you consume) is one way to do this, AND it’s a growingworldwide trend. You can grow our own food in your backyard or through a community garden, support farmers markets, on the way to become an edible city.
Imagine the joy of:
-planting your own vegetables;
- socializing with like-minded people;
- contributing to a local food movement; and
- eating nutritiously
Become part of a global movement, and start eating nutritious food, living healthy, connect with your community and most of all enjoying the fruits of your own labor.
You will feel wonderful, energized, save money and minimize your footprint
Labelling practices
The words natural, organic and eco-friendly are (mis)used by corporations, solely for profits. Product labelling is required, however the definitions are not concrete enough and have allowed corporations to use the words without any legal ramifications.
Marketing Departments use word that cause confusion, preferring that consumers will just purchase a products by the words that are easily read and not the fine print.
The Organic Consumers Association is promoting organic food and fair trade practices.
It is so important to know what you are buying, eating and using on your body and in your homes. The reason that companies get away with unethical marketing practices is because consumers are not informed. Start to support the companies who are trying to be just, ethical, fair and organic.
By supporting local businesses, farmers and producers, you build a trustful relationship, and can hold them responsible for any misleading actions.
