Milk Crate Garden: Grow A Lot Of Veggies In A Little Space
A milk crate garden is a great way to grow a lot of produce in a small space. Gardening in a milk crate is pretty much the same idea as square foot gardening. It’s kind of amazing what you can grow in these happy little plastic boxes. Plantable, stackable and cute, repurposed milk crates grow great gardens. A milk crate garden is such a clever way to grow a productive garden in a small space. Instead of growing vegetables, herbs and flowers inexpensive flower pots, grow them in stackable, repurposed, plastic milk crates. You can often find these crates on Craig’s List or freecycle.org, or at garage sales, thrift shops and other inexpensive (or free!) sources.
How much longer until the utopic Solarpunk future where Capitalism is dead and we all live in ecologically sustainable high-tech forest cities? Asking for a friend.
Until we make those ecologically sustainable high-tech forest cities ourselves. It’s going to take a lot of us to do it though, so best to spread the word (and gather native tree seeds).
And, like, get started now. Then our “weirdo houses” will be the only thing functioning when everything falls apart!
The only reason why we don’t live in a solarpunk world right now is because no one has bothered to make it yet.
We’ll have to make it ourselves, and we’ll have to help each other make it. That’s why it is solarpunk.
Some resources to consider creating or joining or doing:
Repair cafes - create or join your local repair cafe! Repair stuff, learn how to repair stuff, teach others how to repair stuff.
Map of Makerspaces - make some things! learn how to make some things! teach others how to make some things!
Community Garden Map (note that this is US-only, and not a complete list) - join a local community garden
Learn some basics on passive solar design - clever use of the sun can create extremely energy efficient homes and buildings. You can use these principles to save on energy bills, even if you’re renting.
Free USDA Complete Guide to Home Canning, 2015 revision - cut down on personal food waste! Learn how to safely preserve food. Very useful if you suddenly harvest / purchase for crazy cheap in season / dumpster dive a ton of perishable food.
Donate to One Acre Fund, which provides training and capital to farmers (making them more productive and pulling them out of poverty) in various east African countries
Donate to Bridges to Prosperity, which provides technical expertise, money, and volunteers, to help local people build and maintain their own footbridges in extremely isolated rural areas
joining r/solarpunk, and sharing links/ideas/art/music with the community. Also, upvoting stuff for greater visibility. There’s over 900 members!
This swamp in Louisiana (not far from New Orleans) is the center of stories about stories of ghosts, voodoo magic, and strange creature sightings. People who visit have claimed to hear shrill screams, see children running around and other ghostly sightings.
It is the known home of Rougarou, the Cajun werewolf, numerous malicious spirits and ghosts including that of Julia Brown, a voodoo priestess who lived in the swamp. It is rumored that she would sit on the porch of her tiny cabin (last two pics), giving anyone that passed, the evil eye.
One of Julia Brown’s favorite pastimes was to predict the destruction of the neighboring towns. They called her the oracle, because if something bad was going to happen, Julia Brown already knew about it. Upon her death, she cures the entire town. It’s also rumored that on her funeral in 1915, a deadly hurricane destroyed three towns and numerous lives.
Manchac swamp is only accessible through a local tour. The tour offers rides to her cabin and the cemetery she is buried in.
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