Member Spotlight: Starting a Front Yard Vegetable Garden
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- čas přidán 27. 08. 2024
- What do you think of growing food in your front yard? Let me know in the comments. ⬇️
This is a story of a young couple in our Seed to Table community who decided to make the most of their sunny front yard by totally transforming it into a productive source of food for their growing family. It’s my pleasure to introduce you to Murray and Elayna from Calgary, Alberta.
It’s amazing to see the transformation that can happen in just one growing season, especially when you are guided by an experienced teacher in a structured learning community. If you are dreaming of a vegetable garden makeover of your own, know that you are capable of this type of transformation too.
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So excited to find this video! I drive by their lovely yard every day and admired the low tunnels with broccoli. Plan to model my east-facing yard similarly.
This past year I moved some temporary garden boxes to my front yard while my backyard was overhauled and people were constantly giving me thumbs up when driving by and telling me how awesome it was to see veg growing in the front. My only “thief” was a toddler who ate a cherry tomato 😂
The city of Calgary is officially in favour of less grass in general.
Yes please to more of these!!
Do you have problems with neighbors dogs and cats fouling in the beds?
No.
Not a single time :)
We smothered half our lawn with cardboard and wood chips 2 years ago, replaced it with food and native plants. ❤
@@that_auntceleste5848 good for you.
Blessings everyone everywhere
What about pest control?
No! No! No! Back in the 1970s I was working at the University of Miami Biology Department typing up a report from a Botany scientist for publication. The report was about what happens to oil, gas fumes etc. from vehicles. The report noted that the exhaust, gas etc. goes onto the ground, the rain washes the result into the soil where it is absorbed, the plants uptake that contaminated water into themselves, then the resultant plants are eaten. It was advised that the best thing was to place one's garden a minimum of 50 feet from the road.
On top of that, front gardens in urban areas have all that exhaust sprayed directly onto the plants. If one can't garden away from a road, then putting up some type of solid barrier such as a solid fence, would help cut down on exhaust fumes and other pollutants from getting on the plants.
I hope you're advocating with just as much enthusiasm the need to keep people at least 50 feet away from all vehicles so as not to breathe in those same toxins directly.
That’s fair. But a lot of vegetables are grown right next to the highway… so either pick that with pesticides or home grown vegetables organically grown
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