It is not so difficult to transform an internal courtyard, a piece of garden, terrace or public park into a small plot of land in which to grow some vegetables and some fruit trees with great advantage for our pockets and for the sustainability of the system. food
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If Michelle Obama does it then I can do it too !! The news went around the world that the young American first lady inaugurated her presence in the White House with the birth of a small piece of land to be allocated to cultivation of tomatoes e eggplant and who knows that this may not be the spring to persuade others to embark on a new career from metropolitan grower.
The City of London, to take another xenophilic example, plans to promote and finance cobstruction of 2012 urban gardens just by 2012, the year in which it will host the Olympic Games. An initiative wanted directly by the mayor who called the project Capital Growth. An important title that, not too much between the lines, lets the message pass that the growth of metropolitan agglomerations will soon be destined to pass also through the formation of new urban farming practices aimed at favoring the return to that traditional coincidence between the place of production and that of consumption that has characterized the survival of the world system for so long.
In our country there are many administrative realities that in a fragmented but progressively increasing way are promoting the conversion of public spaces into gardens managed by citizens. Equally numerous are the private realities committed to favoring the birth of a "urban ecology" from below: eugea o Urban cracks are just some of these and from their sites it is also possible to obtain numerous useful information to undertake initiatives of what has been defined guerrilla gardening.
The inversion of that flow which for years has characterized the so-called era of progress is underway. The presence of a vegetable garden near one's home has in fact for decades been one of the elements that most differentiates the countryside from the city as well as the eating habits of the respective inhabitants: there the fresh and genuine vegetables grown at home, here the canned one, often frozen, bought in supermarkets. Today this tautology can be overturned in favor of a progressive return to the origins.
After all, it is not that difficult to transform a internal courtyard, for an piece of garden, of balcony or public park in a small plot of land in which grow some vegetables and some fruit tree with great advantage for our pockets and for the sustainability of the food system.
It is not necessary to have landowners' possessions or agricultural training to create our own vegetable garden. Sometimes one is enough grid made of wooden boards at least 20/25 cm deep to be placed on an asphalt surface, according to a horizontal or vertical arrangement (depending on the availability of space) and a good dose of soil to turn the sterile courtyard of a building or the roof of a house into an excellent supplier of salad and fresh vegetables. A weekend of do-it-yourself and the vegetable garden is done.
If you add that domestic compost can be used to fertilize, we will have the opportunity to further reduce waste and to feel like procurers of our food again.
