Urban gardens are needed now more than ever. With today's "just in time" food supply chains, and urban food deserts, most grocery stores in cities have less than 3 days food supply on hand. How does that work when a natural disaster strikes? Not very well.
Growing food where people live is one of the easiest and most meaningful actions an individual can take for resilience in the face of adversity.
If more food were grown in cities, there would be less farmland needed and less fuel for shipping needed too. Urban gardening needs to be expanded to include edible urban forestry, and cities need to embrace planting edible trees on streets, in parks, and publicly owned green spaces.
Chestnuts and mesquite are both good examples of trees that produce a lot of food over the years with little effort, if people will just plant and tend them. Chestnuts have a nutrition profile similar to grain, and 2 mature trees can produce all the calories needed in a year for a single person and will deliver that abundance yearly for a 1000 years.
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Urban gardens are needed now more than ever. With today's "just in time" food supply chains, and urban food deserts, most grocery stores in cities have less than 3 days food supply on hand. How does that work when a natural disaster strikes? Not very well.
Growing food where people live is one of the easiest and most meaningful actions an individual can take for resilience in the face of adversity.
If more food were grown in cities, there would be less farmland needed and less fuel for shipping needed too. Urban gardening needs to be expanded to include edible urban forestry, and cities need to embrace planting edible trees on streets, in parks, and publicly owned green spaces.
Chestnuts and mesquite are both good examples of trees that produce a lot of food over the years with little effort, if people will just plant and tend them. Chestnuts have a nutrition profile similar to grain, and 2 mature trees can produce all the calories needed in a year for a single person and will deliver that abundance yearly for a 1000 years.
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