How Much Food Can I Grow Around My House?

Peak Moment 87: In summer 2006 Judy Alexander embarked on an experiment to see how much food she could grow, and how many neighbors could benefit, from the garden around her house. Check out her homegrown rainwater collection and irrigation system - watering her 60+ edible crops. Meet the bees, the chickens and the worms. And catch her joy in producing so much food for so little effort.

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Tags:

• home
• gardening
• food
• rainwater
• catchment
• irrigation
• chickens
• bees
• composting
• worms
• vermiculture
• donella
• meadows

[roymaitland]

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[peakmoment]

@roymaitland -- thanks for this video on protecting bees from insecticides...colony collapse disorder is very worrisome. Agriculture relies totally on bees and other pollinating insects.

[Sudschick610]

Watched he whole video waiting to see her gardens and how much food she was able to grow, but all I saw was a box of potatoes.

[peakmoment]

@Sudschick610. Didn't you see all the gardens, the bees, the chickens? She didn't attempt to tally the quantity, but she told us the results.

[peakmoment]

@SCLARK2112, it's more accurately called Global Climate Change or chaos. It is characterized by more extreme weather events, exactly as you describe. 2010 was the hottest year on record. The Arctic polar ice is melting. Moscow had the hottest summer on record and massive wildfires. Snow across 2/3 of America, including the south? Record floods in Pakistan? Extreme weather events and destabilization.

[peakmoment]

@martiebaby, NOAA report just out indicates 2010 is tied with 2005 for warmest year despite solar minimum (2010), and nine of the hottest ten years were in the last decade. Also, record rainfall in 2010.

Of course the climate has been in flux since the very beginning. We're looking at additional fluctuations that correlate directly with the burning of carbon fuels. Haven't had this much carbon in the atmosphere in 100,000 years, and it took 10,000 years to restabilize.

[passinthreu]

do a you tube search of the : criminalization of organic farming , this lets monsanto take your home if there polen blow 1000 miles and polenates to garden in your yard .... chec it out

[silbernagelm]

I watch this video at least one a quarter! Thank you so very much for taking the time to produce such a fine quality teaching tool.

For two years now I have been working toward self sustainability, and gathering information from where ever I could find it. This video has enlarged my vision.

Thank you!

[westchesterny]

Seriously, lol. Why is this "Peak Moment." Who are they?--- God? What now, are we in decline b/c you say we were at a "peak," what silliness. WHAT ABOUT the real farmers who were long sustaining people, lol, but who got thrown off land in order to build new suburbs (so people could learn to "garden," and act moralistic about it).. This woman could have cared less about the real farm foreclosures, or what the tobacco acts did to farmers, etc., lol

[SidneyBou]

@SCLARK2112 You are right Global warming is a lie. But there is a population explosion that will run into the food supply as soon as there are a couple of bad years around the planet. Grow your own garden and you will be ready or at least better prepared. Get a gun if you can handle it. And remember if it isn't getting warmer it is probably getting cooler that is what this planet (or the sun) does, varies.

[je187u]

nice video , good info

[DaniaOMGWania]

@SCLARK2112 tell them again... LOL

I pity them... its more like a Global Lie lo

[lavenderdawnstar]

For a great follow up to see what she has accomplished, look for the video "How Many Community Gardens" to see where she has taken this start.