gardening revolution - the garden project

there is a garden project out there that everyone is a part of, perhaps not everyone understands their role yet, but it is a project that can start now.

the project is simple. it consists of one main component:

*people planting seeds to grow food.

i have a lot of ideas about how this can happen on a large scale, but as i research and connect with other like-minded people, we begin to build this garden each day through our every action. each time we visit the grocery store we must remember that the components to each meal are grown, and if you eat meat...the animals consumed eat plants that must be grown to sustain them.

the cycle of feeding a being to be slaughtered with food we could be eating directly breeds dependency and helps the capitalist economy by creating "jobs", waste and excess. the water the animal we slaughter to eat drinks could be being consumed directly by a human needing clean water to drink. this cycle of consumerism (profiting corporations) encourages a lack of sustainability in cultural eating customs.

the food we eat that we buy from the grocery store is inherently tied to the money system. when the money system fails, the grocery store system in turn fails --> this means people who rely 100% on food purchased from a grocery store with money will have nothing to eat when the stores close.

the best way to avoid being dependent on store bought food is to grow your own. any place where there is public land is a place you should be able to grow food. no matter where you live, you can grow food. containers, back yards, front yards, around trees, in abandoned plots and anywhere there is dirt. why plant flowers in your front yards when you could plant something that you could eat? and if you dont need it to eat, why not give it to someone who does?

our ideas about money and food are unhealthy for a variety of reasons. a person should not need to be rich to eat healthy. access to clean, healthy organic food should not come with a certain skill set or IQ parameter. the government should not get to "grant" someone the right to eat through a series of papers pushed around by a caseworker given a job so you can feel tied to the government for your right to feed your children in an economic slump. there should be apple trees in the parks and grapevines on the library lawns so the kids have something healthy to snack on while reading instead of red40 dyed popsicles from the icecream truck. but of course, that sounds ridiculous because if you look at the books for the children you will quickly find that most books contain references to cookies, cakes, icecream, sweets, chicken wings, hamburgers, pizza...before ever mentioning a vegetable. we gasp and use the obese children as afternoon entertainment on talk shows, exploiting corporate profits through negligent parents making decisions for children who just want what "tastes good" -- msg / high fructose corn syrup / sugar, sugar, sugar / mystery chemical x...and the list goes on.

i recently moved into a home in south los angeles with a beautiful, sizeable yard that i am turning into my personal gardening revolution (phase 1). i will delve into what i talk about here in more detail, but i will also share the details of my personal back yard garden. i would love to exchange tips, ideas and gardening revolutions!!! we are all in this mission together. more food planted means more food for us, and for our future generations. when we embrace food as a right for everyone, not just a privilege for the rich, we embrace one key to our true freedom -- not the manufactured "documented" ideological freedom fed to you along with poison from the propaganda machines.

*fruits, vegetables, herbs, flowers...are beautiful additions to any living space or yard. make your space edible!

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