In last night's Amateur Radio net meeting, where the presentation and discussion was about the advantages of working in groups, I mentioned that I had brought up the idea of a co-op garden. A few people tried to shoot the idea down, stating that the government, or raiders, would just come in and take everything, or take it over. I then tried to point out that having a single large growing area is not the only way to have a co-op garden 'system'. That by sharing skills, tools, supplies, and ideas, much of the growing can be done in small plots, spread out over a wide area. Some at people's homes, and perhaps even some guerilla gardens. Where a person normally wants to grow a wide variety of foods in a home garden, by spreading things out, those that can grow certain items much better due to experience or the agricultural properties of the soil, could concentrate on those items while other people grow things more suited to their experience and growing conditions.
Where I cannot physically do much in a conventional garden, I can help in other ways. Also, as I have said before, I cannot grow much 'food' here at the apartment. What I could do, as part of a co-op, is to grow herbs, inside, using grow lights. I do not think the authorities would be much interested in a small rack of herbs. Or just three or four tomato plants. Or a small straw bale bed of potatoes. Especially if that bed of potatoes was out in the boonies, kind of out of sight, the straw bales covered over with earth so it is not obviously straw bales. And kept watered with an aerial well that looks like a pile of rocks.
In other words, lots of options for individual and cooperative gardens.
Just my opinion.
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