How to Feed Everyone
3More people would be able to eat; less people would go hungry if organic fruit, vegetables and herbs were planted everywhere that you see vegetation in public and private places. Below are a few examples…
- In backyards
- In frontyards
- In outdoor shopping plazas
- On elementary, jr. high, high school and college campuses
- In front of and on the side of hospitals
- Paralleled to sidewalks, nature trails
- Near the entrance and exits of freeways
- On the side of highways and byways
People who lack vision will come up with excuses as to why this can’t work as opposed to implementing the solutions.
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Thank you for responding Jan.
There’s always the possibility of what can be done and this is what has proven most successful ie doing what one can do. While planting and harvesting takes a certain amount of focused effort, I am believing that the sooner people get started planting the sooner they’ll experience a harvest.
I’ve seen a number of homeless people in major cities across America, I imagine if they were to get various vegetable, fruit and herb seeds and shown how and where to grow them they would do the rest. They would then be in a position to feed themselves. Additionally, many of the places they would grow the food may go unchecked for a considerable time. It wouldn’t be a difficult opportunity to move on. After all, it isn’t as though the homeless people living in major cities, under freeways, byways and highways have a job to go to at present. You see there’s a way to make this all happen.
Oh I agree!! Many areas have started community gardens. Raised beds could be done at churches (am working on one that does food giveaways to put in some raised beds, offered to donate the seed, compost and planting effort if they got the materials for the raised bed). There *are* possibilities! The only hesitation I had was the chemicals used on the ditch areas – that wouldn’t be organic and isn’t in some cases suitable for livestock was my only point. Also many in urban areas don’t know the value of a soil test. I’m not sure if you’re on Pinterest, but I recently posted a project that used old cattle trough feeders for raised beds. There are ways even in poor soil areas!
Great ideas! Some are more workable than others…definitely more edible landscaping could be used than is! I’m not as sure about the highways/offramps…and if it is grown it probably wouldn’t be organic.
I love your enthusiasm in promoting fresh food JaWar. I hope it gets others to think.
In some states the grass in the median is baled, and some claim that it tests higher for pollutants due to the traffic. Additionally the volume of trash people throw out of the vehicles, and getting someone to care for the medians, as well as the problem of erosion, which the forage holds better than food crops do. I’m not sure if the runoff from the roads would contaminate to unhealthy levels, but it’s certainly not prime ground. There are also things used to spray weeds with that agriculture is not allowed to use. I don’t want to spam your site with links but check out a pdf from Minnesota about ditch hay (hay made from that which is cut along highways)…many people won’t even use this for livestock anymore.
There is a hospital here that has the local herb society maintain a “sitting bed” – herbs with benches that people can sit out there. Mints, etc are hardy and low input – the herb folks come out a couple times per year to weed, mulch etc. Community clubs, 4-H and others could maintain some. Our extension office maintains ‘test plots’ of raised beds near the office. Many areas that have flower beds could have mint, pepper, rosemary or other herbs.
There’s plenty that could use fruit trees etc too. Only possibility I see, sadly, is liability issues – who gets sued if someone gets sick. Anymore it’s sad that that’s such an issue. I’m at risk and had complaints for *giving* fresh eggs to people at a local food drive…so it’s better to go hungry I suppose?