Thursday, April 23, 2020

IDC2020 - Week 4

Better late than never!

The categories and my responses:

Plant something: A lot of us were trained to think of planting as done once a year, but if you start seeds, do season extension and succession plant, you’ll get much, much more out of your garden, so I try and plant something every day from February into September.
Plant something:

- Greg planted onions and potatoes
- I sowed milky oats, 3 types of carrots, a mesclun mix
- My daughter planted 3 types of kale, cilantro, chives, and celery

Harvest something: Everything counts – from the milk and eggs you get from your animals to the first dandelions from your yard to 50 bushels of tomatoes – it all counts.
Harvest something: 
- Eggs, nettles, violet and dandelion flowers, violet, dandelion, and chickweed leaves

Preserve something: Again, I find preserving is most productive if I try and do a little every day that there is anything, from the first dried raspberry leaves and jarred rhubarb to the last squashes at the end of the season.
Preserve something:

- Dried nettles leaves
Waste not: Reducing food waste, composting everything or feeding it to animals, reducing your use of disposables and creation of garbage, reusing things that would otherwise go to waste, making sure your preserved and stored foods are kept in good shape – all of these count.
Waste Not: 
-Fed chickens, dog and cats scraps; composted unfeedable scraps
-Using old greens containers to start seeds in
Want Not: Adding to your food storage or stash of goods for emergencies, building up resources that will be useful in the long term.
Want Not:

- Dried nettles for tea

Eat the Food: Making full and good use of what you have, making sure that you are getting everything you can from your food, trying new recipes and new cooking ideas, eating out of your storage!
Eat the Food: 
-eating eggs, nettles, other herbs from the yard

Build community food systems: What have you done to help other people have better food access or to make your local food system more resilient?
Build Community Food Systems: 
Skill up:  What did you learn this week that will help you in the future – could be as simple as fixing the faucet or as hard as building a shed, as simple as a new way of keeping records or as complicated as making shoes.  Whatever you are learning, you get a merit badge for it – this is important stuff.
Skill Up:

- Playing around with natural dyeing
- Using up scraps to sew into larger pieces to make bags

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