What is an “outrageous garden?”

“Hunger is 100% preventable, poverty is 100% reversible.” ~ Dattatreya Siva Baba

What is an “outrageous garden?” Spontaneous, organic, innovative, effective, tenacious, contagious, simple, easy and nutritious.

• 1. It’s a garden created within a container from easily obtained, local recycled materials or trash: tires, feed sacks, wading pools, 5 gal. buckets, empty oil cans (non-petrol), plastic tubs, concrete blocks, chimney flues, pipe sections, boots, wagons, old bathtubs, wooden boxes, etc.
• 2. Strategically located as close to the door of their caretaker’s residence as possible.
• 3. Quick and easy to set-up using a limited number of hands or labor and virtually no tools.
• 4. Requires minimum nutrient and water inputs: waste water/grey water collected from washing and food preparation; animal manures i.e. goats, rabbits, llamas, cows, horses, donkeys, chickens; grass clippings, leaves, dried plant materials, straw, moldy animal fodder or hay, vegetation of any kind for compost and mulch.
• 5. Planted intensely with both traditional and introduced high-nutrient vegetables and fruits beginning with donated seeds then through seed sharing. (I recommend a copy of Global Gardening by Hank Bruce and Tomi Folk.)
• 6. Provides empowering and intoxicating self-reliance rather than debilitating on-going dependence.
• 7. Inspires hope and creativity, generates abundance through simplicity.

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