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I don't think you can grow enough in your garage to sustain your whole family throughout the year because you can't raise pigs in a subdivision

I guess this was the point LSUballs was trying to make when he said bullshite.

I'll rephrase it to make it more accurate.

My original one:

I have a family of 6, and can produce enough fruits and veggies to feed us for the year in a small corner of my garage. If I turn my whole garage into a growing site, I could feed my whole neighborhood for the year.

My new one:

I have a family of 6 and can produce enough fruits and veggies to provide that portion of our diet for us without buying produce from a store/super market/fruit stand.

However, based on the produce that I have in my garden, I can make any number of vegetarian dishes so we wouldn't be eating fruits and veggies all year. Since we're meat eaters, we still have to go to the store. My neighbors would complain if I had a head or 2 of cattle in my backyard.

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I gotta cut this short. Got about 200 acres to bushog this week and I'm already late

I stick to my urban growing because I don't have the funds for 200 acres, nor the time for it. Next year, a friend of mine is letting me plant on about 10 of his acres, and I'm going to try some new things to try and push yeilds to the max. I'm also going to be trying some urban growing methods outdoors to see how successful it is, and if I can yield more than a conventional outdoor farmer.

I don't have anything against farmers downshift..hope you don't take it that way. I'm just looking to better utilize the space I have, and spread info about these alternative methods.

I can grow 24/7, 365 days a year, never have to worry about my soil being depleted (nutrients) and really don't have to worry about pests, contamination or animals.

The only problem I have is when my AC unit goes out and turns my hydro plants into mush soup. Upkeep is minimal and cheap. I probably spend $80 a month extra in utilities. But that's my only cost incurred during a year of growing.

Where's your farm at Downshift? Whatcha growing?

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Posted on 6/7/11 at 4:14 pm to BROffshoreTigerFan

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I don't have anything against farmers downshift..hope you don't take it that way.

Nah I never was thinking that. I think I understand where you stand pretty well.

It's very believable that you can put out enough veggies to cover that part of what yall eat in your garage with that setup assuming you have the freezer space to store it for a semi-extended period of time.

Take a picture of your setup and post it if you get a chance. I'd like to see what this rig looks like. If you're putting stuff together and getting good yields, those bigger urban organizations would probably like to know what you're doing as well. You seem pretty passionate about what you're doing, so if you're coming up with new stuff I'm sure they would love to hear about it to help out their organizations. The bigger ones often hold little field trip type deals and they would probably like to use your setup as proof of plausibility.

My guess is that, on the scale you're talking about, you will get better yields than any large scale farmer. You can provide attention to each individual plant and take care of it how necessary. Once the operation moves outside, it becomes a whole different monster. Soil pH, bugs, the weather, and weeds all become a factor. Idk how familiar you are with growing outdoors. If you are familar with it just skip to the next paragraph. If you're not familiar with it I suggest doing a good bit of homework pertaining to whatever you wanna plant. There's a shitload of info available on the interwebs for any kind of plant you can dream up and how to attain the proper growing conditions for that particular plant.

You and half of america don't have room for livestock. It's just a fact (gotta have farmers). There isn't enough room. However, if people start growing their own shite, they won't eat as much meat. I'm sure your family's meat eating went down when you started having your own stuff to eat. Every little bit counts.

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Where's your farm at Downshift

Don't have one

I don't even have a garden at my house.

I have worked on a farm since early highschool though. It's in prairieville. We used to have a 4 or 5 acre garden with all kinds of shite in it. Alot of the land is cow pasture. Used to be about 100 head but right now it's cut back to about 40 cows and 2 bulls. The rest of it is used for bailing hay in the summer and grazing the cows in the winter. It isn't any kind of huge operation. It's just a lil income on the side for the bossman. He has a real job to pay the bills

I'm 21 and in college. No way in hell I could afford the property taxes on 200 acres.

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