13/ Are the plants a bit yellow? Too much water. A bit brown? Too little. White mold on the leaves? Gray mold? Rust colored specs? Small orange and black beetles? Failing to thrive? Holes in leaves? There's an encyclopedia of knowledge FOR EACH CROP SPECIES.
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14/ When do you harvest it? How do you harvest it? How do you store it? oops, skipped a step! Often you have to "harden off" before storage. Ignore that and your crop rots in the basement. How long does the stored crop last? How do you save seeds for replanting?
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15/ And every single detail in the thread above differs in Maine vs Ohio vs TN vs TX.
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16/ So, anyway, to restate my thesis: * yes, you need tools to garden. One could imagine a starter set of spade, shovel, irrigation tube, weed barrier, trowel, dibbing stick, etc. And have 54 variants for zones 1-6 times crops A-I. * ...but you need so much knowledge too.
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17/ So it's sort of like asking "I want to paint portraits of people, but also still lifes of apples - which two 'how to paint' kits should I buy? Why does no one sell these?"
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18/ Studying how to forage dandelion leaves and how to process acorns to make them edible, and all the rest is a fun hobby, but, yes, we're agreed that if SHTF, it's a non starter. I suspect even an expert would be hard pressed to find 500 cal/day https://twitter.com/rich_marie/status/1197887675455307779 …
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19/ Very cool! Yes, I certainly think this is doable - I mean, we have an existence proof in recent times from American natives, etc. (a) I'm super impressed (b) off on a tangent from original question re "garden in a box" kits. https://twitter.com/rich_marie/status/1197888743543164931 …
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20/ I've been hobby farming for almost 6 years now, and despite: * 6 years of practice * dozens of books read * somewhere between $10,000 and $100k on equipment, depending on how you count my results are still inconsistent
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21/ $20k low end = tractor + 1 or 2 implements, plus a bunch of shovels & random crap high end includes that plus a greenhouse, raised beds, underground water to the green house, butcher equipment, a new subpanel + chest freezers, labor, fencing, irrigation, weed barrier, gates
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Replying to @MorlockP
How much time do you invest per day in this endeavor? Considering moving toward something similar, and wondering how much time would be left over for other work to subsidize transition.
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I work full time doing coding, M-F. Sometimes a second gig for an additional 8 hrs per week. Farm 8 hrs per wweek on average?
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Live in close proximity / on the farm? If so, happy w/ the choice to live there rather than in an urban env (if that's where you were previously)?
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Yes, live on the farm. Moved here from town adjacent to Cambridge MA. 0.1 acre lot -> 56 acre farm All in all, I like it, but a lot of adjustment. It can be quite isolating.
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