The permaculture garden

There´s been a recent transport drivers strike in Spain that kept for several days the whole country in standby. Day number 2 of the strike, and there was hardly any fruits and veggies in the supermarkets. The media sort of scared the population with the idea of a possible food shortage and scared people filled up their tanks and also their pushing trails. It was interesting to watch what does modern spaniards consider "vital" in terms of food provisions for surviving the strike: many gathered tons and tons of fashionable yogurts and fatning items...Elder people tended to watch this collective hysteria with a smile in their silent faces, knowing and remembering perhaps that in times of true crisis, no yogurt will assist you but more of the basic lentils, chickpeas, rice, and other dried and long lasting food.

Anyhow, besides this crisis, I´ve bought myself this book to learn more about gardening and growing our own veggies in a healthy and respectful way:




So far we are enjoying a lot the simplicity of the techniques shown in the book. I specially enjoyed the idea of growing our own potatoes using as a container a series of car wheels one on top of the other one, in order not to occupy too much space in the garden and be able to grow more potatoes in the different levels created by the wheels...and ecological and recycling brilliant idea.