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Don’t stop, keep on planting for the Good Food Revolution
September 21, 2009 | Author: Will Allen | 5 Comments
Hoop house in winter time
It’s Fall harvest time , so let’s get our natural good food to all community. But don’t stop here, let’s start planting now for the winter and spring. Good, natural food should be available year round. Let’s continue to grow the Good Food Revolution. - Will Allen
Year round production is possible!
Inside of Hoop House with snow, vegetation are covered.
We do it here in Wisconsin, so it can be done anywhere. Growing Power has received many inquiries for advice on our food systems and techniques. As much as we would like to, we are unable to answer all of the requests individually, we hope those who ask will be able to attend one of our workshops sessions. The last one remaining for the year is Oct 29th and will be conducted by Will Allen. More information here.
Hoop House during summer time
Inside hoop house with compost pile
Will Harvesting inside green house
Tags: Workshop, Year Round Production
Category: Farming, Intensive Production, Uncategorized, Year Round Production
Dear Will,
I’m involved with an urban gardens project for homeless families as well as the Federation of Southern Cooperatives. I recently saw you on PBS in a UMiami baseball cap. What a revelation!
Your work is incredible. What a remarkable gift to the world! I was attending UM when you were there and remember life at the “U” in the 70’s.
Congratulations on the MacArthur genuis grant…We will use Growing Power as a template for the work we are doing.
Go Hurricanes!!!
Debra Butler
We live in The High Desert area of Central Oregon, sand turns to concrete in the summer (minimal rain) and no topsoil to speak of.
This area needs the Growing Power closed loop/natural Aquaponics system.
Unfortunately the distance and my disability leave us strapped to attend the seminars.
How do I come across the design templates and/or workbook?
Growing Power is an excellent model and I have been able to replicate the Aquaponic system (to a point) from photographs. Thanks for any help, Meri & Jerry
Hi Will!
A big hug for you from Melissa in Miami!
So much has happened since I was at your workshops at Growing Power in May.
The group I started has built more gardens for people in Liberty City, one of Miami’s urban food deserts.
I take my pledge to you seriously, and we are planning 450 gardens for families over the next 3 years, as well as a community food nursery and 2 gardens at shelters for homeless youth. We are all volunteer, and have just begun to apply for funds, but everything so far has been with volunteers and recycled materials! It is amazing what a small group of committed citizens can do.
Let there be peas on Earth and let it begin with me!
Hi Will,
I am just curious what the temperature is inside your hoop greenhouse with the snow outside. I have plans to build myself a similar greenhouse so I am gathering information wherever I can.
Tomas
I really appreciate seeing what our communities are doing in growing healthy foods. My husband and I have been slowly getting involved with growing. Two years ago we had about 6 large containers and grew herbs and some vegetables. This year we bought a 4×6 green house and planted veggies from seeds then build a 10×10 raised bed and grew some vegetables. Now it’s November and we are trying to figgure out what we show do next. Maybe a small backyard hoop house built over the raised bed, and put some worms in it? So, we can make the soil better for the Spring. And plant some seedlings in the small green house now?
I have been meeting with women to talk about nutrition and what indivisduals can do in their own homes or outside.
Times are getting hard and we all need to be able to produce foods for our families. We don’t have land in the city. So we are using our homes and helping each other out.
Thank you,
New-be,
Sis. Angela Muhammad