DailyDirt: So You Want To Grow Your Own Food?

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Filed Under: cuyahoga national park, farming, food, food production, gardening, indoor farming, modern farming, ohio, post-modern farming, sustainable farming, underwater farming


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  1. identicon
    Darkhog, 24 Jul 2015 @ 5:54pm

    Heheh...

    Quality dirt is quite necessary for gardening purposes. I'm not sure though good crops can be yield by using TechDirt.

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  2. icon
    JoeCool (profile), 24 Jul 2015 @ 6:01pm

    War on gardening

    Indoor gardening is almost impossible now. Back when I was a kid, it was possible, but then we started the War On Drugs. Many drugs are plants grown indoors, so this became the War On Indoor Gardening. Anything you need to grow plants indoors is now illegal or highly regulated as they assume that Grow Lamp bulbs (for example) are being used to grow marijuana. Best keep your gardens OUTDOORS to avoid nosey LEO breaking down the door some day.

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  3. identicon
    Warron All, 25 Jul 2015 @ 12:06pm

    Nuts

    To those crazies who want a War On Life," Pease On You!

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    Watcher of the Sky, 26 Jul 2015 @ 7:27am

    Dirty Rotten Rain

    All of these great farmer's best efforts can be so quickly nullified by one tanker jet flying overhead spraying the atmosphere with the toxic waste of barium and aluminum and God Knows What Else. And believe what I am saying, these tanker jets are counting in the multitudes, dumping millions of pounds of Only God Knows (beside them). My water company from whom I receive water from every month doesn't even test for those chemical and radioactive compounds. Plants have to withstand that onslaught and still remain nutitious. GOOD LUCK WITH THAT.

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  5. identicon
    I. M. Wondering, 26 Jul 2015 @ 7:33am

    Re: War on gardening

    If you are growing potatoes or ginsing indoors, why not invite law enforcement in just for the record.. then grow your carrots and peppers too free from fear of that broken front door?

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  6. icon
    JoeCool (profile), 26 Jul 2015 @ 10:25am

    Re: Re: War on gardening

    Because an officer will think that's suspicious behavior, that you're protesting too much, and suggest kicking in the door later to see what you're REALLY growing.

    These days, the people in charge want to know every aspect of your life for every second of the day. If you complain, you're obviously a criminal because "If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear."

    So, no growing anything where they can't see if you don't want kicked-in doors.

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