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OMG Garden in Auckland is an urban garden that produces 1000NZD per week in commercial produce sales. They think they can get to 1400 per week. Small They have full time farmer.
Is that 1,000 NZD profit, or revenue? It also looks heavily reliant on volunteer effort, basically free labor.
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It takes a full acre of land to feed a single person.
I'll grant you that for the sake of discussion (although I don't think it's strictly true), but that acre doesn't have to be all in one place eh? Every bit helps. My sister's neighbor farmed in his (San Francisco) backyard and got about 3~4 crops a year, all year round. It wasn't enough to feed their whole family but it helped.
1 acre full of potatoes is not what I want in my life.
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At some point enough harvests will be missed because of lockdown that famines become inevitable. The choice to risk it will probably me made too late. Not sure why I'm getting downvoted. Food takes months to grow and needs to be harvested within a short window. By the time people realize there's a famine coming it will be too late. Just look at how we could have prepared in January for this virus if people weren't so…
I'm downvoting this because it's a huge claim without adequate evidence. Feel free to cite some sources showing what % of harvests have been missed, etc, and I'll change my downvote.
Also, its also not that simple as stated by op.
Its also a supply chain issue. Which could be worse than anything else.
Drivers getting sick. Cargo ship captains getting sick etc etc etc.
Stuff might stop coming even if available in China.
How do you repair your farmers tech? Especially sometimes it is licked behind a paywall, where you cant just use any wheel. It must be from company xxx.
We will find out soon that those paywalls will cause real real real world issues
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Ditto. The only downside to this method is having to transplant twice: once to soil pots after sprouting, then to the ground.
If the seeds are in paper towel, wouldn't you just plant it as is and let it decompose?
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Ditto. The only downside to this method is having to transplant twice: once to soil pots after sprouting, then to the ground.
> Ditto. The only downside to this method is having to transplant twice: once to soil pots after sprouting, then to the ground. Consider getting a soil block maker, it makes propagation and transplanting so much easier: https://growagoodlife.com/soil-blocks-for-growing-seedlings-...
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ennnnnnnnt. That's the buzzer, signaling that this is some bullshit. No one wants to die period. full stop. Greedy to the very end.
Guess what? Everyone dies. And every day is a choice between things that increase that risk. Saying "no one wants to die, stop being greedy!" as if you can eliminate all deaths through a simple action is a nice low effort slogan that doesn't make any sense in the real world.
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So, to put it bluntly, people are sitting on ass and their food crops are rotting in the field? Even if you do nothing the market will probably fix it: Less food in the markets > high demand drives up prices > higher salaries > slightly lower prices At some point some people are hungry enough to get a... shall we say... real job? With some regulatory sanity we subsidize it a bit. Perhaps we should test and quarantine…
What if there’s simply not enough food?
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This may not apply here but you can't have your cake and eat it too. Exploitation doesn't have to be active but can emerge from perverse incentives, ignorance, and malicious opportunism. I imagine a large faction of people espousing more liberal viewpoints are at worst willfully disingenious or at best optimizing for the emotional/time investment of supporting ethical behaviour. My opinion, not taken as fact: young,…
I've had exactly the opposite experience. These city-dwelling liberals are quite conscientious about what they buy, supply chains, and their impact on the world.
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Thank you for both having the foresight to plan(t) as well as the willingness to help those around you. Otherwise you could end up like my neighbor with a strategic reserve level of toilet paper, proud to hoard yet share with no one even when the stores are empty.
I really do not understand this toilet paper thing. I mean as long as there is water, why people do not wash their asses. It is cleaner anyway... When I was young and we visited grandparents, we used newspaper.