Economic Activism and Progressive Living

There is almost nothing else that takes you away from being the hands, eyes, and arms of the tyrants like an organic garden. You can locally source virtually everything you need, and in the process almost remove yourself from their greedy, treasonous grasp, and their use of your talents.

I was reading the other day about the Victory garden program of WWII - iirc HALF of the produce eaten in U.S. homes during the war came from backyard gardens. The manual from that time even suggested that organic was the better way to grow - perhaps because they wanted the oil for the war, but it does reduce dependence on commercial fertilizer which takes massive quantities of natural gas to produce.

If you get a chance to read "Tomatoland", especially the parts where it talks about slavery in Florida in the production of tomatoes we get in stores TODAY, it is a great motivator to raise heirloom tomatoes and other veggies at home.

Gardening is a good skill to have. People think they can just move to avoid climate changes, but with just about an acre (ish) of arable land per person in the U.S., food (and the supermarket) may not be able to keep up.

And gardening provides the basis for better tasting food: http://politicook.net/2011/08/22/meatless-monday-my-garden-pea-pod-salad/

Thanks for this.