Body Essential

Urban Farming
07 June 2007

Growing my own food has become part of my life. I no longer depend on grocery stores to provide 100% of my food. Ultimately I want to own my own property and grow my own food to provide for almost all of my needs. Since I still reside in the city, urban farming is the best I can have right now.

A few months after I switched to a raw food diet, I began growing wheatgrass and sunflower sprouts indoors. This continued for 7 months, at which point I discontinued the wheatgrass because it had become overpowering. On average I was consuming 12 ounces of wheatgrass juice daily. The sunflower sprouts remained and have been the mainstay of my diet since I started sprouting 1 year ago.

With better weather I have started an outdoor garden in my backyard. It is relatively large for an urban garden. Half of the plants are tomatoes, with the remainder being herbs, spices, and various leafy greens.

Once all the seeds and seedlings had been planted, I sprayed the entire garden with a water mix containing GroPAL ocean water mineral solution, at a ratio of 200:1, water to GroPAL. A month from now I will post more pictures to show the progress of the garden.

UPDATE - 1 Month
09 June 2007

Most of the plants were started from seedlings. The only plants pictured here that were not pre-grown are the rogue sunflowers that infiltrate the garden at random. They are the remnants of surviving seeds from the used pads of sunflower sprouts we grow indoors. When we were preparing the ground for the garden, all of the pads that had been composting all winter and spring were ground up into the mix. There are about a dozen sunflowers growing in the garden now. Now THAT'S tenacity!