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Most people have an unconscious feeling that we can\u00b4t continue down the path we\u00b4re currently on. The supposed abundance witnessed on the shelves of our local grocery store might seem promising, but deep down we know that we can\u00b4t continue to outsource our need for food to a system that is so deeply indebted to the quickly depleting reserves of oil and other fossil fuels. We know that something needs to fundamentally change, and most of us understand that this change will most likely require us to get our own hands into the soil to begin to supply at least some of our own nutrition needs.<\/p>\n
Before we get into the basics of how to grow your own food, it\u00b4s important to reflect on the importance of design. Growing your food in a sustainable way is much more than simply taking some seed, putting it in the ground and hoping something will grow. How we set up our gardens and fields and the principles behind our actions will largely determine if we\u00b4re successful growing an autonomous food supply.<\/p>\n
PRINCIPLES OF DESIGN<\/strong><\/p>\n The following principles of design are important when it comes to maintaining the fertility of the soil that grows your food:<\/p>\n \u2013 Whatever you take from the soil, you must put back. Let\u00b4s look at each of these design ideas individually:<\/p>\n Whatever you take from the soil, you must put back.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n …click on the above link to read the rest of the article…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" PRINCIPLES FOR DESIGNING A HOLISTIC FOOD SYSTEM Most people have an unconscious feeling that we can\u00b4t continue down the path we\u00b4re currently on. The supposed abundance witnessed on the shelves of our local grocery store might seem promising, but deep down we know that we can\u00b4t continue to outsource our need for food to a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[319,1912,6510,17468,9358,769,15480],"class_list":["post-28790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survival-2","tag-food","tag-food-production","tag-food-system","tag-holistic-food-system","tag-permaculture-research-institute","tag-sustainability","tag-tobias-roberts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28790"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28791,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28790\/revisions\/28791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\u2013 Implement cover crops, mulch, and green manure.
\n\u2013 Rotate your crops on a yearly basis.
\n\u2013 Grow a diversity of plants, not all for food.<\/p>\n