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Hey everyone, Rob Greenfield here,

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and we are at my urban

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Food is Free demonstration garden.

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This is going to be a crash course

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in how you can grow food for free,

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or with very, very little money.

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I'm going to cover all the

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limiting factors in gardening,

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so we're going to go over how to get your

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garden beds, seeds,

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water, soil, mulch, compost,

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everything that you need in order

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to be able to grow food for free

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or very, very little money.

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So first thing's first is

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raised beds, containers,

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what you're going to be growing the food in.

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And, since this is a demonstration garden,

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I really wanted to show many ways

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that you can do this in urban environments

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or out in the countryside.

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So I'm going to show you the 10

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different gardens that we have.

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So here we have an old nightstand.

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This is just as simple as laying

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it on it's side, filling it with dirt,

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and then planting food in it.

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You can use things like bookshelves,

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drawers, anything like that,

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where you can just lay it on it's side

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and fill it up with dirt.

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Here we have an old pallet.

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The bottom is the pallet as the base,

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and then around it, it's just using

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the pieces of the pallets.

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Or, these are fence posts.

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99% of all pallets in the United States

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are used 1 time,

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and then end up in a landfill.

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Pallets are endless.

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You can get them on Craigslist,

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behind grocery stores.

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So many ways to get them.

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So here's another really simple

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raised bed.

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This is just old scrapwood.

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You could go buy

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brand new from the store,

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but the truth is that it's

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laying all over the place.

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Here's four 5- gallon buckets.

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These are free all over the place.

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You can go behind

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grocery stores or restaurants.

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They get a lot of their food ordered

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in this like mayo and pickles

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and things like that.

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So you can use these buckets.

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These are great for balconies and

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patios, and things like that.

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here we've got tires.

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In neighborhoods like where I am in

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Bankhead, Atlanta,

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there's tires everywhere.

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They make a really simple,

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really easy raised bed,

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and you keep them out of the landfill.

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And then over here we've got milk crates,

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also thrown away like crazy,

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and you can make beautiful little

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gardens out of those as well.

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Another wasted resource that you can use

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is bricks.

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I got these from an

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abandoned apartment complex,

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which are just numerous

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all across the community here.

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This is my favorite of all.

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This is just an old toy car of sorts.

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I don't know if it was a sandbox toy car

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or what, but anything that can hold

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in the dirt, you can use it.

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That's the idea of making stuff

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for free and keeping it simple.

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And then we've got some

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vertical gardening here.

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This is a great way to use an old ladder.

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This is just a trash ladder I found

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in an abandoned apartment complex.

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And you just take old buckets,

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or whatever containers that you find

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for free,

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stack them up, and then you've got

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yourself a vertical garden.

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urban places, apartments,

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vertical gardening is a way to really

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make your space go further.

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Here, I haven't finished this yet,

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but this is just an old pallet.

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How this works, is you

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just have to seal the back.

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And then you fill it with soil,

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plant it with herbs...

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Right now I have some

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herbs sitting on top.

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Really cool thing here,

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talked about using your resources,

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using wasted resources.

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This is is an air conditioning unit.

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What I did is I positioned

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the plants underneath it.

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So these are actually using this water

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that would have otherwise been

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completely wasted.

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how much water you can get

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from an air conditioning unit.

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The key to making raised beds for free are

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to be creative, use wasted resources,

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use what is near by, and try to have the

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least environmental impact,

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and need as few virgin

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resources as possible.

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These are keys to always remember 


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when freestyle gardening

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and trying to grow food for free.

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Composting is extremely simple and only

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as complicated as you make it.

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A lot of people worry that

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composting is this difficult thing,

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but the truth is that the worst thing

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you can do is not compost.

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As long as you are sticking your kitchen

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scraps, your yard waste, and so on,

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into this,

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and if you don't even think you're doing

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it right at all, that is far better

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than putting it in the landfill.

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Making a compost bin is also as simple

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as creating compost.

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This is just three pallets,

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nailed together, or you can use wire to

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connect them.

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It's just so you can keep everything in

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and keep things like dogs out.

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Just add kitchen waste, yard waste,

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and paper waste together in a pile.

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You basically want a

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30 to 1 Carbon to Nitrogen ratio.

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Carbon is your browns.

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Nitrogen is your greens.

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So browns would be things like

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dried leaves or cardboard.

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Greens are things like kitchen waste

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or yard waste that's still green.

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Now, how to get compost for free

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when you're just getting started:

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One, you can go to a lot

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of the city landfills.

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You can go to Google and do a quick search.

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Find out if your city landfill

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gives out free compost.

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This is compost they're making from

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yard waste that they pick up,

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sometimes food waste,

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if they have that program.

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and just type in "compost."

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You might find mushroom compost

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or a community garden that just

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went out of business.

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Just go on Craigslist, type in "compost,"

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See what you find, a lot of times

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you'll find it for free or very cheap.

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You can also just make your own.

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There's wasted resources all around you

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to make compost.

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Again, you just need to find

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your greens and your browns.

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Your nitrogens and your carbons.

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You can do this by finding yard waste,

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you can find huge piles of leaves or grass

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clippings all over your neighborhood

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and they'll get your nitrogen.

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What you want to do is find food waste.

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You can do this in multiple ways.

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You can go dumpster diving.

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Grocery stores are a great place to get

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quality fruits and vegetables that are

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going to waste,

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that will make great compost.

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or local restaurants or businesses

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to hang on to their food waste

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and put it into 5 gallon buckets

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and then you'll pick it up.

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to get their coffee grounds.

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in order to get your

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compost materials for free.

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While we're on compost, let's talk about

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mulch and soil.

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You can get mulch for free, all around you.

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One way, old leaves.

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Collect them from your neighborhood.

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This is a great way to get mulch.

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Another way is cardboard.

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The idea of mulch is to

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do two things, really.

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One: to keep moisture in.

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from happening and keep the moisture

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in the soil.

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your need to weed, because it

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doesn't allow the sun to get through

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for weeds to be able to grow.

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you can go back to Craigslist

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and just type in "fill dirt" or "soil."

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Fill dirt, a lot of times, you can get

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dirt from construction sites.

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of this dirt that they dug up.

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abandoned community garden,

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you can get soil or dirt from that

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from an area in your yard, as long

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as you're not messing with

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the native environment there.

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Rainwater harvesting is another thing

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that people think is really complicated,

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but it's really just as simple as

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diverting the water from your roof

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into a container that can hold rain water.

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Simple as that.

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So what I have here,

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this house, when I got here

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earlier this month

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had no gutters whatsoever.

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If you have gutters, 90% of the work

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is already done.

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I simply put 10 feet of gutter on the roof

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and then all you need is a downspout

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that directs into the barrels.

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All I have is a down spout,

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and then I cut a hole in

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the top of the barrel,

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and put some mesh wire.

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This is so that you don't have mosquitos

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that are able to get inside there.

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And then I just put these rocks here

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in order to make sure

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that the gutter downspout

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is going directly into the barrel.

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it's really nice to put a spigot on there,

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but not necessary.

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and just scoop water out of the top.

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I like the system of having

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a spigot on here though,

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it makes it really easy.

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an old bucket on the bottom of it.

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To water the garden, I have this bucket,

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which is just a bucket I found outside

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that was going to waste,

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and then I poked holes in the bottom.

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Makes it really easy to water.

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By watering your garden with rain water,

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we're talking zero pennies.

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Zero money in order to be able

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to water your garden.

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and would have been wasted.

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This is a simple 5 gallon bucket

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that came from inside the kitchen.

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and unscrew the P-trap

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and place this under the sink

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so that the water drains out.

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you fill 5 gallons.

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or you can just place this next to

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the sink and then dump water in there

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from the bowls and things like that.

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So that's called grey water.

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If you want to get a little bit fancier

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but still simple, you can do

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laundry to landscape,

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which is just taking your washing machine

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and setting it up so that the water

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comes out into the garden.

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or you can do the same thing and send your

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shower water directly out here.

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Another cool thing you can do is just

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set up your hose as a shower,

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next to your garden, so that the water

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goes straight into your garden.

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Lot of ways to be able to get water

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for free, and use wasted sources of water.

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Now, when I first got into gardening,

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I never would have thought that there's

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a way to get seeds for free.

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But even seeds can be gotten for free,

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and there's a lot of different ways.

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Once you've started gardening,

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all you have to do is save your seeds.

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Let some of the plants go to seed

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and then harvest those seeds so

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you'll have them for your next planting.

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But, if you're just getting started,

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you won't have that.

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So what you can do is

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you can go to gardens

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in your community.

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where they might have neglected plots,

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will have tons of plants

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that have gone to seed.

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Ask if you can go there

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and harvest those seeds.

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to your neighbors,

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talk to people who are gardening,

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and ask if they have

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seeds that they've saved.

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A little bit of seeds

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goes a really long way.

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Another thing you can do is ask people

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in the community if they have seeds

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that are going to waste.

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Seeds that are older

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and they might not use.

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What you're going to want to do if the

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seeds are older

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is probably plant them first

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in little trays that you can actually

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test to see if they work, before

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putting them in the soil.

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if you can find wild plants.

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So, a lot of ways to get seeds for free.

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Lastly, if you are short on cash,

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if you really want to start gardening

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but you don't have the money,

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I can cover the seeds for you,

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it's one of the things that I do.

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And to figure out how to do that,

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to get more information, just go to

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my website, robgreenfield.tv/freeseeds

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and you'll be able to get seeds for free.

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So there's no reason

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why you won't have seeds

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between one of those,

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to get your garden going.

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Another limiting factor can be space.

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But if you have a creative mind

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and you're resourceful,

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there's spaces all around you.

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You can use balconies, window sills...

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You can use porches and patios.

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You can use vertical spaces.

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You can turn lawns into gardens.

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Just grow food, not lawns.

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You can also use

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other people's vacant space.

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So there's people who have their

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yards that aren't getting used.

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Just grow it in their yards,

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of course, ask them.

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And then give them a percentage

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of the food so they are getting

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food for free.

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You can also join a community garden

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or make a community garden

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if there isn't one.

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And you can also freestyle garden

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in abandoned lots or unwanted locations.

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One really important thing I wanted to say

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is that food is actually growing for free

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all around you

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if you open up your eyes.

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You can eat the weeds.

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There's broad leaf plantain.

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There's dandelion greens.

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There's lambs quarter.

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Some of the most nutritious plants

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are growing all over us,

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in the cities and the countryside.

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We don't even have to do any of the work.

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It's just growing there,

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ready to feed our bodies.

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So get into some wild foraging.

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I hope that what you've seen

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here in this video, is that

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gardening doesn't have to be expensive

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it doesn't have to be challenging,

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it can be really fun,

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you can do it with very low

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to no environmental impact,

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while actually increasing the positive

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impact you have on the world around you.

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You can involve your neighbors,

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involve your community,

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and grow food to feed yourself,

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feed your neighbors,

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and to make the world a better place.

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If you want to learn more,

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more details and figure out excatly

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how you can you can do this,

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you can go to

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robgreenfield.tv/foodforfree

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Thanks a lot for joining,

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and grow some food!