omari jaffe

Hi Omari, from New Zealand. Welcome to ooooby!

I joined yesterday. I'm a beginner gardener too. I've wanted to grow a garden for a long time and now I've started. I reckon food has to be locally grown and consumed, for our personal health and for the well-being of our planet.

I don't know how you inspire people to go back to simple food-growing apart from being inspired myself and just doing it. Like, if I was the last human, I'd be doing what I'm doing now, kind of thing.

Sounds like there is HUGE potential in the Caribbean for this kind of thing. Before I get boring, here's some things that have inspired me ...

Books: The Natural Way of Farming by Masanobu Fukuoka. Check out "seedballs" on youtube. You can get a reprint of the book from www dot abebooks dot com. Fukuoka worked out that a man working with hand tools is the most energy efficient way to grow food. He also said: "If you're working hard, you're doing something wrong". He designed a farming method based on letting Nature do the work and the farmer just kind of helps.

Permaculture by Bill Mollison; search either of those on youtube. Bill Mollison has the same approach as Fukuoka. He designed how to set up food production systems that are self-sustaining. It's not a new idea; the SE Asians have been doing it for centuries.

BioDynamics is another pretty cool thing. Like Organics taken into the high esoteric.

I saw a good documentary recently: The Power of Community. It's all about the community food production systems the Cubans set up after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of their supply of cheap oil. You're not far from Cuba, eh?

Anyway, I'll leave it here. All the best with your ventures!

Chris.

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Chris Elliott October 24, 2010 at 8:32am

Hi Omari, from New Zealand. Welcome to ooooby!

I joined yesterday. I'm a beginner gardener too. I've wanted to grow a garden for a long time and now I've started. I reckon food has to be locally grown and consumed, for our personal health and for the well-being of our planet.

I don't know how you inspire people to go back to simple food-growing apart from being inspired myself and just doing it. Like, if I was the last human, I'd be doing what I'm doing now, kind of thing.

Sounds like there is HUGE potential in the Caribbean for this kind of thing. Before I get boring, here's some things that have inspired me ...

Books: The Natural Way of Farming by Masanobu Fukuoka. Check out "seedballs" on youtube. You can get a reprint of the book from www dot abebooks dot com. Fukuoka worked out that a man working with hand tools is the most energy efficient way to grow food. He also said: "If you're working hard, you're doing something wrong". He designed a farming method based on letting Nature do the work and the farmer just kind of helps.

Permaculture by Bill Mollison; search either of those on youtube. Bill Mollison has the same approach as Fukuoka. He designed how to set up food production systems that are self-sustaining. It's not a new idea; the SE Asians have been doing it for centuries.

BioDynamics is another pretty cool thing. Like Organics taken into the high esoteric.

I saw a good documentary recently: The Power of Community. It's all about the community food production systems the Cubans set up after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of their supply of cheap oil. You're not far from Cuba, eh?

Anyway, I'll leave it here. All the best with your ventures!

Chris.

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