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Feed your Neighbours (thelemmy.club)
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[–] 6 points 2 days ago (4 children)

You know where and how they grow the food you buy (assuming you don't always buy organic at the farmers market)?

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  • [–] 6 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    (assuming you don’t always buy organic at the farmers market)?

    you remember we're a bunch of weirdos here on the fediverse, right? i live in a city, right on the edge of farm country, and i go bike out to farms and flirt/banter/barter BBQ with the farmers until they let me buy a couple logs of wood off their orchard so's i can smoke with local apple and peach. the only time i get produce from the grocery store and not the fruit stand/farmer's market is when (a) my mother drops by any extra she's picked up, (b) they don't have kumquats at the local fruit stands and i don't want to drive out 45 minutes out to the good tree and pick 3 kumquats offa one of my favorite brunch spot's kumquat trees, or (c) i forget c but I swear it exists. i gotta plant me a kumquat tree.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 days ago

    you remember we're a bunch of weirdos here on the fediverse, right?

    Who are you telling that to? I pick up trash in my free time...

    But seriously: That’s awesome—I tip my hat to your lifestyle and take back what I said.

    In my free time, I also enjoy gardening, hunting, and fishing.

    This is more of a personal opinion, but I think that with homegrown vegetables (as long as you don’t use chemical pesticides and aren’t gardening right next to the highway), you’ll likely still have lower levels of contaminants than with regular, non-organic vegetables from most supermarkets—even if your garden borders a street in a residential area.

    In any case, good luck with the kumquat—I have a small tree in a pot, and it would have borne a good crop this year… if I hadn’t neglected to water it over the winter.

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  • [–] -3 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    Ah, yes, a field where any single square foot may be run over by a tire about 2 dozen times per year obviously has the same rubber exposure as a road.

    Quit with the dumb, snarky retort. It doesn't make you look smart, it does the opposite.

    Proximity to roads not only exposes a garden to tire dust, but also the asphalt can leech into the soil and be absorbed by the plants. Plus there's the volatiles in car exhausts.

    It's common gardening advice to keep gardens at least 30ft from roads to prevent these problems. It's far better to grow vegetable in the bacl yard instead.

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