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Seattle's Food Forest
by eddie Sun Jan 10, 2016 11:26 am
What a wonderful idea and let's have one in every city, in every country
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by Guest Sun Jan 10, 2016 11:36 am
There is a town in UK, will try to find the info, that is allowing people to use all it 'spare' land ie grass verges, common lad etc, to grow food.
The city park sounds a wonderful idea.
The city park sounds a wonderful idea.
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Re: Seattle's Food Forest
by Guest Sun Jan 10, 2016 12:35 pm
It's still a park that people can relax in, it just has plants in that produce fruit, veg and herbs, so it will probably smell wonderful as well.
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Re: Seattle's Food Forest
by Victorismyhero Sun Jan 10, 2016 6:32 pm
No doubt the R/W would oppose this and piss on the fruit since they are scared stiff that the "poor" might get something for nothing
that they might get a handful of berries more....
that they might get a handful of berries more....
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Re: Seattle's Food Forest
by Raggamuffin Sun Jan 10, 2016 6:38 pm
That is so not going to work. 
It might work if people just strolled by and plucked one apple from the tree, but that's not going to happen - someone is going to take all the apples and flog them, and leave none for anyone else.
It might work if people just strolled by and plucked one apple from the tree, but that's not going to happen - someone is going to take all the apples and flog them, and leave none for anyone else.
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Re: Seattle's Food Forest
by Ben Reilly Sun Jan 10, 2016 6:40 pm
Stormee wrote:The council house rabbul will still ransack the plants, nick them, throw stuff about, break into storage sheds and so on.
They don't have council houses in Seattle, Washington, USA. You Brits need to learn your experiences are not universal!
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Re: Seattle's Food Forest
by Ben Reilly Sun Jan 10, 2016 6:42 pm
Raggamuffin wrote:That is so not going to work.
It might work if people just strolled by and plucked one apple from the tree, but that's not going to happen - someone is going to take all the apples and flog them, and leave none for anyone else.
I truly doubt that. I imagine the police will watch out for any full-blown harvests going on.
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by Raggamuffin Sun Jan 10, 2016 6:45 pm
Ben_Reilly wrote:Raggamuffin wrote:That is so not going to work.
It might work if people just strolled by and plucked one apple from the tree, but that's not going to happen - someone is going to take all the apples and flog them, and leave none for anyone else.
I truly doubt that. I imagine the police will watch out for any full-blown harvests going on.
So will there be rules about how many apples people can take then?
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Re: Seattle's Food Forest
by Ben Reilly Sun Jan 10, 2016 6:51 pm
Raggamuffin wrote:Ben_Reilly wrote:Raggamuffin wrote:That is so not going to work.
It might work if people just strolled by and plucked one apple from the tree, but that's not going to happen - someone is going to take all the apples and flog them, and leave none for anyone else.
I truly doubt that. I imagine the police will watch out for any full-blown harvests going on.
So will there be rules about how many apples people can take then?
I don't know exactly how it works, but this isn't the first food forest in the U.S. -- there's at least a half-dozen, including one in California that's been operating successfully for four decades.
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by Raggamuffin Sun Jan 10, 2016 6:58 pm
Oh well, I hope they have better luck than me with growing veggies.
I have an apple tree but I leave the apples for the birds and the squirrels.
I have an apple tree but I leave the apples for the birds and the squirrels.
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Re: Seattle's Food Forest
by Guest Sun Jan 10, 2016 11:07 pm
Works here too:
http://www.independent.co.uk/property/gardening/incredible-edible-guerrilla-gardeners-are-planting-veg-for-the-masses-in-west-yorkshire-8657717.html
Carrots in the car park. Radishes on the roundabout. The deliciously eccentric story of the town growing ALL its own veg
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2072383/Eccentric-town-Todmorden-growing-ALL-veg.html#ixzz3wsyaNxME
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Who needs a garden?
Fed up with waiting for an allotment? What about growing food on a verge, in a cemetery - or even on a canal boat.
http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2009/feb/26/allotment-gardens-hugh-fearnley-whittingstall
http://www.independent.co.uk/property/gardening/incredible-edible-guerrilla-gardeners-are-planting-veg-for-the-masses-in-west-yorkshire-8657717.html
Carrots in the car park. Radishes on the roundabout. The deliciously eccentric story of the town growing ALL its own veg
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2072383/Eccentric-town-Todmorden-growing-ALL-veg.html#ixzz3wsyaNxME
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Who needs a garden?
Fed up with waiting for an allotment? What about growing food on a verge, in a cemetery - or even on a canal boat.
http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2009/feb/26/allotment-gardens-hugh-fearnley-whittingstall
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Re: Seattle's Food Forest
by Victorismyhero Sun Jan 10, 2016 11:15 pm
sassy wrote:Works here too:
http://www.independent.co.uk/property/gardening/incredible-edible-guerrilla-gardeners-are-planting-veg-for-the-masses-in-west-yorkshire-8657717.html
Carrots in the car park. Radishes on the roundabout. The deliciously eccentric story of the town growing ALL its own veg
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2072383/Eccentric-town-Todmorden-growing-ALL-veg.html#ixzz3wsyaNxME
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Who needs a garden?
Fed up with waiting for an allotment? What about growing food on a verge, in a cemetery - or even on a canal boat.
http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2009/feb/26/allotment-gardens-hugh-fearnley-whittingstall
and ALL well dosed and contaminated with benzene...nitrosamines and such
healthy eating indeed....
at least the lead has gone
...or has it?
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by Guest Sun Jan 10, 2016 11:22 pm
Probably not! Put my name down for an allotment, but took it off, don't think I could manage it now, don't know where JC gets the energy for his on top of everything else. My greenhouse is enough for me now.
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Re: Seattle's Food Forest
by Victorismyhero Sun Jan 10, 2016 11:27 pm
i would not knowingly eat any product grown in a town or city
bad enough the rural grown stuff with whats poured on that, (though of course generally not if home grown)
but town grown...with that shitty air not to mention industrial fall out?
no way Hose (damn! where IS that e acute when you want it)
bad enough the rural grown stuff with whats poured on that, (though of course generally not if home grown)
but town grown...with that shitty air not to mention industrial fall out?
no way Hose (damn! where IS that e acute when you want it)
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Re: Seattle's Food Forest
by Ben Reilly Sun Jan 10, 2016 11:37 pm
Lord Foul wrote:i would not knowingly eat any product grown in a town or city
bad enough the rural grown stuff with whats poured on that, (though of course generally not if home grown)
but town grown...with that shitty air not to mention industrial fall out?
no way Hose (damn! where IS that e acute when you want it)
Or the silent J?
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Re: Seattle's Food Forest
by Guest Sun Jan 10, 2016 11:43 pm
To be honest i am not sure it iseddie wrote:What a wonderful idea and let's have one in every city, in every country
the problem with growing in the city would be the high levels of toxin`s especially lead,sulfur ect in the atmosphere certainly in higher concentrations than open fields and such
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Re: Seattle's Food Forest
by Guest Sun Jan 10, 2016 11:45 pm
i tend to agree .....at least as long as asda and tescos ect are still availableLord Foul wrote:i would not knowingly eat any product grown in a town or city
bad enough the rural grown stuff with whats poured on that, (though of course generally not if home grown)
but town grown...with that shitty air not to mention industrial fall out?
no way Hose (damn! where IS that e acute when you want it)
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Re: Seattle's Food Forest
by eddie Mon Jan 11, 2016 5:14 pm
Ben_Reilly wrote:Stormee wrote:The council house rabbul will still ransack the plants, nick them, throw stuff about, break into storage sheds and so on.
They don't have council houses in Seattle, Washington, USA. You Brits need to learn your experiences are not universal!
You mean "Stormee" not "you Brits"
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Re: Seattle's Food Forest
by Ben Reilly Mon Jan 11, 2016 6:08 pm
eddie wrote:Ben_Reilly wrote:Stormee wrote:The council house rabbul will still ransack the plants, nick them, throw stuff about, break into storage sheds and so on.
They don't have council houses in Seattle, Washington, USA. You Brits need to learn your experiences are not universal!
You mean "Stormee" not "you Brits"
Between this, Tommy acting as though the U.S. welfare system is just like the British benefits system, and Victor thinking U.S. liberals want everyone to be the same, I'm seeing a trend where you guys seem to think our country is a lot more like yours than it is.
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by Victorismyhero Mon Jan 11, 2016 6:48 pm
nah Ben...we simply know its an even BIGGER pit....
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by Victorismyhero Mon Jan 11, 2016 6:51 pm
Ben_Reilly wrote:Lord Foul wrote:i would not knowingly eat any product grown in a town or city
bad enough the rural grown stuff with whats poured on that, (though of course generally not if home grown)
but town grown...with that shitty air not to mention industrial fall out?
no way Hose (damn! where IS that e acute when you want it)
Or the silent J?
you could be right....though to be fair i have seen BOTH versions...
but the silent J (or rather breathed) "h" is I believe more authentic...
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