How Much Food Can I Grow Around My House?

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Peak Moment 87: In summer 2006 Judy Alexander embarked on an experiment to see how much food she could grow, and how many neighbors could benefit, from the garden around her house. Check out her homegrown rainwater collection and irrigation system - watering her 60+ edible crops. Meet the bees, the chickens and the worms. And catch her joy in producing so much food for so little effort.

Channel: Howto & Style
Uploaded: December 6, 2007 at 1:00 am
Author: peakmoment

Length: 00:27:52
Rating: 4.90
Views: 35558

Tags: home gardening food rainwater catchment irrigation chickens bees composting worms vermiculture donella meadows

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Video Comments:
Tonyinrosnemex (November 30, 2008 at 10:29 pm)
Fuck yes.
pwnstr08 (November 11, 2008 at 2:53 am)
everybody should have a garden like this and be self sufficient
qualqui (November 9, 2008 at 7:40 pm)
Wow,what the rest of us are missin' out on! Since viewin' from the start like i felt an attraction to the great outdoors, so i guess the easy part is mother earth is in each and every one of us, just gotta let her grow and be beautiful! 5 stars peakmoment and thank you very much for sharin' this AWESOME vid!=)
OregonDARRYL (October 30, 2008 at 1:39 pm)
What we are quickly approaching is the end of mankind. We have proven ourselves to be no more intelligent than cancer cells, which are so ignorant that they continue to reproduce, and consume, until they destroy their host and thus themselves. The monkey never learns.
peakmoment (October 31, 2008 at 12:46 am)
I agree that overpopulation and consumption are decimating planetary ecosystems beyond their ability to renew, and we are in the next planetary extinction. I'm not sure whether humans will be entirely decimated unless Gaia herself does it. We clever monkeys are amazingly adaptive.
carsiotto (October 28, 2008 at 7:23 pm)
Considering how about 90% of the population lives in or near a city, do you have any ideas for an urban garden????
judge6754 (September 14, 2008 at 7:45 pm)
Most plants will not take up these bad things thank goodness. But, they will get in to you thur other ways. so, ho=w do you check your soil as you sujest , i need help .
paintballingguy (September 3, 2008 at 3:19 am)
It doesn't matter what your gender, I'm just glad to see people getting back to nature..

This video is insperational, I am totaly getting a garden going next year.. Any good resouces you could reccomend? websites? books?
frozentootsiepop (September 4, 2008 at 9:02 am)
check out on youtube "The produce garden". It's a guy living in Australia who has video on growing all sorts of vegetables and making organic fertilizer, tea, soap, etc.
kaisenji (August 25, 2008 at 2:14 am)
There are fast growing tomato varieties for cool weather too. Same for cucumbers-look for varieties that work for cool weather.