Types of Gardens and Gardening

Note: This blog is a companion to Galion Garden Group 
GGG is Aquaponics oriented, yet many of the
 topics there may be of value to you.

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Forest gardening, a plant-based food production system is the earth’s oldest form of gardening. In a perfect world we would return to it.

SEE: Permaculture under the tab Self-Reliance/Sustainability Tab on Galion Garden Group  At a residential home = Practical Urban Permaculture, which is a series of 18 ten minute videos worth every minute of your time. Another, further down the page is Geoff Lawton’s Food Forest Plan. In 4 minutes he demonstrates how nature intended sustainability to be.

Today, we have residential gardens that may be located In front or back yards, on table tops, in raised beds and in containers in which soil is the grow media. Outdoor and indoor gardens exist that use soil or more recently; hydroponic or aquaponic gardening methods.

Commercially gardening is done in fields, greenhouses, in buildings and on rooftops. Local community gardening with a wide range of plants is more sustainable than the mono-crop farming practices that have developed world-wide.

Local urban gardening is a sensible social and economic activity in which an area of land (also buildings) is gardened by a group of people, providing fresh fruits and vegetables, as well as access to satisfying labor, neighborhood improvement, sense of community and connection to the environment.

Community gardens are typically underwritten by civic governments, non-profits, charities, fraternal organizations, religious groups, or just a band of neighbors joining together in the activity. In some cases garden sharing partners landowners with gardeners in need of land. Most of these groups provide harvest over-abundance to food banks or community kitchens. Some gardens are started for this purpose alone.

"Green Gardening"  involves  growing plants using organic fertilizers and pesticides so that the gardening process - or the vegetables flowers and fruits produced thereby - doesn't adversely affect the environment or people's health in any manner.

SEE: The Welcome Tab entries that show how we can get started here in Galion.

More to come...
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