Lawns To Gardens - Episode 1

The first raw episode of Lawns To Gardens - A show about Peak Oil/Energy. I don't know what I'm doing. I hope this helps and entertains people.

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• Peak
• Oil
• energy
• crash
• growing
• food
• at
• home
• carpooling
• how
• to
• compost
• kill
• your
• lawn
• urban
• farming
• gas
• shortage
• war

[REH88]

Good vid. Have you had the mineral content of your soil checked, especially for cobalt (to allow for vitamin B12) and iodine (to prevent goitre), and do you have a plan to maintain it? Malnutrition would be a bummer after all that work.

[PeakOilBoy]

Yes, all the minerals are A-OK, and the acidity is perfect for growing food crops. Last year I got over 45 tomatoes from a single plant! (Not all ripened, however)

[wakadudel]

How did you learn about peak oil? No one at my coffee house believes me when I try to tell them about it. Course, they're all from the "boomer" greedy gen you were talkin bout. Maybe you could write some music about the end of the oil age.

[PeakOilBoy]

I am a member of Portland, Oregon's Peak Oil Task Force. I helped write the report on how to deal with Peak Oil.

It's all going to come down to getting to know your neighbors, learning awesome gardening skills, and having a good time while learning to live with less!

[Riverwytche]

"We're Nintendo kids, we don't know what the fuck we're doing." That is the best freakin quote, I love it, because I'm a Nintendo kid who, with my husband, is trying to live more sustainably and grow food, and you are so right! It's learn as you go. Man, I love this, ty!

[DUKEXIV]

I love the information, and the reality too

cause when it come to framing; I don't know what to do

but I'm seeing this guy ;

who's got lots of guts

and this how we're going to kick politicians butts

keep up the fine work,

we'll be watching you here

and learning to grow stuff,

without any fear

thanks a bunch for the encouragement

[MannySteinerBIeeky]

Plants vs Zombies btw - there's a videogame that sums up an aspect of what is wrong with the world. All the zombie brainless idiots out mowing and strimming and trimming, wasting fuel and killing vital wildflowers that feed pollinators like bees.

[MannySteinerBIeeky]

Just consider all the waste of fuel that comes from people using shit like powered mowers strimmers trimmers etc - all of it 100% unnecessary.

Like the Despair (dot) com poster reads, "no single raindrop ever thinks it contributes to the sea"...

though that also will likely go over their idiot zombie heads.

[MannySteinerBIeeky]

@Riverwytche - just get them to make games like Farmville directly applicable to actual reality, then people have all the growing knowledge from playing games.

I don't know if Farmville already is realistic or not, so maybe they already did that. I don't have a Wii, last one of theirs I have is a Gamecube.

[vidaripollen]

we should learn to drink mother nature s milk not blood.

[Sustainable2008]

POB - I just discovered your channel - May 2010. I love your candidness, the swearing and that you're genuine - the real deal. No fluff or superficial exterior. Get Dirty MAN!!

[LadyBluemantle]

we just got a town home with a back yard that is 10x11 feet. We've already ripped out all the grass and we're going to use the space to grow veggies come spring. Can't wait!

[arizonachristian]

I am also doing urban sustainable living.. Keep up the great work..

[stellunasoleil]

eat dandelions when they are really small, then make wine from the blossoms. We are digging up our lawn right now, I love it...lawns are stupid.