Ironically, there are techniques to make a city self sustaining, such as hydroponics facilities and rooftop/terrace farming. The reason we don't do so right now is because it's just not economically viable, as mass rural farming is vastly more efficient than the 'city methods'.
Yeah the real issue is that not enough people who live in urban areas want to take the time and effort necessary to upkeep even a small garden. I live in the burbs, we have a decent sized garden, and its work on top of whatever job you have. You can't just get home from the office, make a sustainable Soy-Smoothie, smoke a ton of pot and shitpost to ChapoTraphouse for 8 hours. Gardening takes attentiveness, planning and time every day. These shmucks don't have what it takes on top of it being far less cost effective than rural farming.
Secondly, why the hell does he think that’s happening? What could be different from the 1920s to now?
Because everyone who didn't live in a city farmed back in the 1920s. It wouldn't shock me at all to find out he was accurate.
There's been a significant shift from rural farming to non-farming since the early 1900s. Farms have been consolidated (it's not just black farmers who have dropped in numbers massively) and it's amazing how little of our population farms now. We did have a small return to farming with victory gardens during WWII, but that's long over now.
First of all, I’d like to see the numbers on how many farms were owned by whites back then and owned by whites now.
It's the exact same tend among whites as well. That's why his statement is complete propaganda: it highlights one race while ignoring the overall trend was the same across all races.
I'm assuming they were using it to keep weeds down. You cut holes in it where you put your plants so that there are no weeds in between the plantings. That alone wasn't a completely terrible idea, but there was no way that a garden that small would made enough produce for more than a couple of people. Even then, it would be months before anything was edible.
Ideally, you would put the cardboard down where you want to plant, wet it, then let it kill off the weeds/grass and naturally compost in the soil over the fall/winter so that it's ready for spring planting.
Lmfao. A dude on LSD destroyed the garden in like 2 days if I recall correctly.
It was destroyed in minutes lol. The "garden" was about 200 square feet.
Are you ready for the punchline? The guy who started the CHOP garden has a Masters degree in "Sustainability in the Urban Environment": https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2020/06/12/43897621/meet-the-farmer-behind-chazs-vegetable-gardens
Ironically, there are techniques to make a city self sustaining, such as hydroponics facilities and rooftop/terrace farming. The reason we don't do so right now is because it's just not economically viable, as mass rural farming is vastly more efficient than the 'city methods'.
Yeah the real issue is that not enough people who live in urban areas want to take the time and effort necessary to upkeep even a small garden. I live in the burbs, we have a decent sized garden, and its work on top of whatever job you have. You can't just get home from the office, make a sustainable Soy-Smoothie, smoke a ton of pot and shitpost to ChapoTraphouse for 8 hours. Gardening takes attentiveness, planning and time every day. These shmucks don't have what it takes on top of it being far less cost effective than rural farming.
And planted on top of cardboard with a little soil on top. Didn't even cut through the cardboard
Because everyone who didn't live in a city farmed back in the 1920s. It wouldn't shock me at all to find out he was accurate.
There's been a significant shift from rural farming to non-farming since the early 1900s. Farms have been consolidated (it's not just black farmers who have dropped in numbers massively) and it's amazing how little of our population farms now. We did have a small return to farming with victory gardens during WWII, but that's long over now.
It's the exact same tend among whites as well. That's why his statement is complete propaganda: it highlights one race while ignoring the overall trend was the same across all races.
I'm assuming they were using it to keep weeds down. You cut holes in it where you put your plants so that there are no weeds in between the plantings. That alone wasn't a completely terrible idea, but there was no way that a garden that small would made enough produce for more than a couple of people. Even then, it would be months before anything was edible.
Ideally, you would put the cardboard down where you want to plant, wet it, then let it kill off the weeds/grass and naturally compost in the soil over the fall/winter so that it's ready for spring planting.
It's called sheet mulching, but they did it way too late in the season and with not nearly enough soil on top of the cardboard.
They had to save room for the supply gliders to land
Also, the garden was like 10sq ft, and have like 6 plants in it.
'Planted' in two inches of loose soil on top of cardboard... Once they realized that you have to transplant them out of their planters.
All in a Seattle climate I'll remind
Yes! Lmao I remember. Does anyone have the pics of it? It was so embarrassingly bad and shitty looking 😂
"garden"