Inflation much? More humans should farm!

[ChickenTacos]

Prices going up everywhere? Affecting your life? Why not do some at-home farming? Meat, poultry, dairy, beans, fruits, veggies, WoW gold...

Why pay others to do the work when you can do the work for your own self and your own family?
"A family that puts each other first is a family that farts the worst!"

[Angel]

I ended up extending my garden to build quite a few garden enclosures (covered areas). I have a lot of fruits and vegetables along with larger fruit trees that I don't need to buy them from the stores at all. Last season (6 months ago), I managed to get just over 200 avocados from one tree.

Gardening is a very sustainable hobby to do (if you have the space).

[【ボス B o s s】]

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Inflation much?

https://youtu.be/qJ3VZiB4JAQ

[❤ Sly Succubus ❤]

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Prices going up everywhere? Affecting your life? Why not do some at-home farming? Meat, poultry, dairy, beans, fruits, veggies, WoW gold...

Why pay others to do the work when you can do the work for your own self and your own family?
"A family that puts each other first is a family that farts the worst!"

Because I live in an apartment complex that sits on private property, they can deny you altering the terrain outside and have already done so.

[ChickenTacos]

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Because I live in an apartment complex that sits on private property, they can deny you altering the terrain outside and have already done so.

Perhaps it is time to break free from 'the man'?

[Lunar Fang]

Well seeing is you have to report your garden to the government.

What garden?

[RRW359]

If I made enough money to own enough land to farm and had time to spend caring for plants I wouldn't care so much about inflation.

[De Hollandse Ezel]

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Because I live in an apartment complex that sits on private property, they can deny you altering the terrain outside and have already done so.

Perhaps it is time to break free from 'the man'?

"the man" will have shared spaced including the small piece of grass around the parking lot mowed regulairly.. so anything you plant there gets mowed away.
-> and they charge service costs (on top of your rent) for that maintenance..
***if someone would be plowing out the grass, plant a small fence around the grass, place a bench for people to sit on, and set up a framework for beanstakes + plant a variaty of crops..
-> they would just remove all that stuff.. and place new grass.. and charge me and all my neighbours more service costs for having to fix that "vandalism" unless the vandal itself is found to fork the bill.
-> as such you BET my neighbours would rat me out.. to not have increaased service costs.

if one is going to do guerilla gardening.. one must do it on land thats from the city council,
those are too maintained.. and paid for by city taxes.. but city taxes pay for a lot of things.. so people care far less if you litter or vandalise city property than property that dirfectly is on their landlords plot.

and even than.. while you not may be fined... you still risk it all being removed...
=> the city council will sometimes skimp out on their maintenance to keep within budget.. and if you spot an area where weeds grow high and the city has not done maintainance in months.. it may be an "we only mow it once or twice a year" area... and you could risk guerilla guardening there... people spotting you there won't rat you out.. if all you do is replace weeds for crops.
-but there is still 99% chance that your crops get stolen.

***about 15% of the total area in my city is public green.. most of that is tied up in the 6 city parks (the biggest one of them is 5% of the city surface alone)

[❤ Sly Succubus ❤]

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Perhaps it is time to break free from 'the man'?

"the man" will have shared spaced including the small piece of grass around the parking lot mowed regulairly.. so anything you plant there gets mowed away.
-> and they charge service costs (on top of your rent) for that maintenance..
***if someone would be plowing out the grass, plant a small fence around the grass, place a bench for people to sit on, and set up a framework for beanstakes + plant a variaty of crops..
-> they would just remove all that stuff.. and place new grass.. and charge me and all my neighbours more service costs for having to fix that "vandalism" unless the vandal itself is found to fork the bill.
-> as such you BET my neighbours would rat me out.. to not have increaased service costs.

if one is going to do guerilla gardening.. one must do it on land thats from the city council,
those are too maintained.. and paid for by city taxes.. but city taxes pay for a lot of things.. so people care far less if you litter or vandalise city property than property that dirfectly is on their landlords plot.

and even than.. while you not may be fined... you still risk it all being removed...
=> the city council will sometimes skimp out on their maintenance to keep within budget.. and if you spot an area where weeds grow high and the city has not done maintainance in months.. it may be an "we only mow it once or twice a year" area... and you could risk guerilla guardening there... people spotting you there won't rat you out.. if all you do is replace weeds for crops.
-but there is still 99% chance that your crops get stolen.

Basically De hit the nail on the head. Now around the door step the current owners have allowed some flowers and small bushes to be grown under my care but yes, everything else is basically under both the City council and the business owners control to a fine point. I sorta don't mind as it means on one hand, yes the backyard is restricted (so to speak, backyard) but it also means other residents can't do much with it either. Prior to the notice, we had someone (who was vacant now) that they had to remove bricks and the broken pieces of glass from the yard...I didn't ask but it displays the situation of some of the other buildings nearby. Thankfully the one I'm in is not so bad, but thats not saying much!

[ChickenTacos]

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Inflation much?

https://youtu.be/qJ3VZiB4JAQ

Nice.

[De Hollandse Ezel]

Początkowo opublikowane przez Sly Succubus:

Początkowo opublikowane przez De Hollandse Ezel:

"the man" will have shared spaced including the small piece of grass around the parking lot mowed regulairly.. so anything you plant there gets mowed away.
-> and they charge service costs (on top of your rent) for that maintenance..
***if someone would be plowing out the grass, plant a small fence around the grass, place a bench for people to sit on, and set up a framework for beanstakes + plant a variaty of crops..
-> they would just remove all that stuff.. and place new grass.. and charge me and all my neighbours more service costs for having to fix that "vandalism" unless the vandal itself is found to fork the bill.
-> as such you BET my neighbours would rat me out.. to not have increaased service costs.

if one is going to do guerilla gardening.. one must do it on land thats from the city council,
those are too maintained.. and paid for by city taxes.. but city taxes pay for a lot of things.. so people care far less if you litter or vandalise city property than property that dirfectly is on their landlords plot.

and even than.. while you not may be fined... you still risk it all being removed...
=> the city council will sometimes skimp out on their maintenance to keep within budget.. and if you spot an area where weeds grow high and the city has not done maintainance in months.. it may be an "we only mow it once or twice a year" area... and you could risk guerilla guardening there... people spotting you there won't rat you out.. if all you do is replace weeds for crops.
-but there is still 99% chance that your crops get stolen.

Basically De hit the nail on the head. Now around the door step the current owners have allowed some flowers and small bushes to be grown under my care but yes, everything else is basically under both the City council and the business owners control to a fine point. I sorta don't mind as it means on one hand, yes the backyard is restricted (so to speak, backyard) but it also means other residents can't do much with it either. Prior to the notice, we had someone (who was vacant now) that they had to remove bricks and the broken pieces of glass from the yard...I didn't ask but it displays the situation of some of the other buildings nearby. Thankfully the one I'm in is not so bad, but thats not saying much!

But you could do the guerilla gardening thing..

100 beans to plant (organic/heirloom) cost about 3-5 euro.
if you pick the correct spieces they can be planted april or may and harvested around august/september.. thats often the window when city's skimp on mowing...
beans also need no fertiliser and little water

as stated earlier I had just stuck in the communal park 100 of those seeds in the ground anywhere there was a tree or bush for them to grow up against..

sadly beans DO want sunlight so I had to place them at the ouside of the bushes... and city council trimmed quite a lot of spots where I planted... hence why 70 out of 100 beanplants did not make it.....

(those greenworkers of the city have an iq of 0.. they just blindly do what their paper stats and BRRRRR drive their trimmer across destroying and anyone in their path...)

but as also stated.. of the 30 that did survive that onslaught.. they were in 1 weekend ALL stolen... I did not place signs I had just planted 1 bean every 10 meter distance ina grid all over that city park.. and sadly some ahole likely also saw them growing and grabbed the entire harvest...

bunch of locusts... I know the kind of people... they also always ravish the wild blackberries in the park.. instead of just grabbing 1 bucket of 1kg per week.. and leave some for others they bring their entire family over and graaze the entire park clean.. leaving not 1 single berry for others..

placing signs near a planted spot like -guerilla gardening,
**if you take anything from this spot, please only take a little and leave some for others
--if you want to contribute.. just go buy a bag of seeds and push them in the ground around this park to add to the movement.

such signs DO help other people to join in and not be as greedy... but sadly the city council will notice such signs and will tear your garden WAY faster down.. than if you leave it unmarked.

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what you can do :


I am a hobby beekeeper.. and THAT can be done in the city a lot more easy... a lot of houses have gardens.. and unlike in usa most gardens do have flowering plants in them.. so there is great varienty of food for bees in the city...
-> but you won't save money on beekeeping.. the hobby is each year costing me easely 200 a hive to perform maintenance on the hives, and take good care of my ladies.. while only giving about 80 euro worth of honey per hive in return)

they stand on the roof of my apartment block... where they bother nobody...

but as stated thats more a hobby.. for it will COST money.
I can't compete with the 1.99 a jar sugarsyrup in stores (thats not really honey.. even when it is called like it) and people wont pay 15-20 euro a jar what true honey should cost.