I want to help local Ojai and other Ventura County residents to learn how to grow…not just organic veggies but also… the most nutritious veggies one can grow.

I have learned a ton of useful tricks and secrets that would make home gardening a time consuming but cost cutting project…and you’ll dramatically reduce your carbon footprint.

For info, email me or call me at 805-649-2286…I’ll get you going even sooner than 2009 and you’ll be able to help others get ready for the 2009 start date.

One simple idea is to have several friends grow specific crops and trade with each other…that way each participant doesn’t have to grow every crop that they enjoy eating…then as years go by, each gardener can start to produce more and more veggies to satisfy their curiosity about growing many different veggies.

I’ve probably grown 1,000 varieties of veggies in my 25 years of farming…always looking for something more delicious depending on the season.

There is no doubt that the biggest advantage of a project like this is that gardeners can share regional ideas to maximixe the length of their growing season,depending on the climate, soil type and microclimate.

Good Luck to all that get involved in this project…can you imagine 100,000,000 people growing their own food seasonally?

Thank you for your ever-so-thoughtful consideration of our locavore project and of your/our lives on this planet!

Obviously, this project will work for some and not for others. I think you are correct; some time in the future, we may not have a choice; we may be eating local.

For me, not having small children, this feels like a relatively small challenge. Knowing each day of the suffering of others and of our ecosystem, makes my locavore job seem small and easy. (Check with me when I am whining in 2009. )

I am thrilled with how much interest there is in this project!!!!!

I am grateful that EVERYONE can participate by doing even a small thing like eating one local meal in 2009!

Finally, I would like to state our revised goals for participation. We are looking for 100+ in Ventura County to carry out the “core” project, 100,000 in Ventura County to devise their own level of participation, 1,000,000 in California to devise their own level, and 100,000,000 in the US to devise their own level.

This project feels good to a lot of us!

In peace, health, community and action,
Kris

I planted some soybeans for some of them the other day.

Other things to plant: agave.

As for the strawberry dilemma : maybe it is about China. Product provenance in China is very sketchy. Organic certification competency is not good.

Otherwise, let them grow organic and ship organic and anyone can baile themselves out.

later