Talking to Plants? And Also…. The Waste Issue! in Site Planning

Part 6 of the Finding Healthy Property: Purchasing Land for Healing, Homesteading, and a Healthy Home series

Welcome to part six of the Finding Healthy Property: Purchasing Land for Healing, Homesteading, and a Healthy Home series! All of the sections may be found under the tag: Finding Healthy Property.

Today we are focusing on gardening and septic considerations in site planning. As usual, my recommendations on gardening differ from that of most, as I live in today’s reality with eyes unveiled, with an understanding of what is to come that few are able to come to terms with.

I have a great deal of experience with gardening, and thus, I have a lot to say on this topic!

Sometimes the truth is not what we desire, and it may make us feel uncomfortable. Embracing discomfort and pondering facts outside of our comfort zone helps us to grow, and will aid us in facing an unfortunate reality and any surprises that may come along in the future. In spite of difficult and potentially saddening circumstances, we can still find joy! Today I’ll share with you some of the joyous surprises that have met me in gardening and nurturing the land this year, along with recommendations as to plants and, of course, a very important discussion on septic planning.

Gardening

While the following is not a popular opinion, my opinions are not courtesy of Rockefeller & Co.

I put little stock in soil tests, or most tests in general. Personally I do a lot of “wrong-do” when it comes to gardening. If “the experts” declare a feat impossible, I often view that as a challenge to experiment. I’ve started tomatoes from seed in compacted, heavy clay soil- on a significant slope! One year I started my seeds in pure sand, just to see if it could be done. (While it can be done, it’s an undertaking to keep them from drying out.) My garden is always planted far too densely to provide any food, per “conventional wisdumb” (intentionally misspelled), and I transplant my seedlings when they are far too young to possibly survive, let alone thrive.

And yet…. For good chunks of the gardening season, despite the increasingly more challenging and toxic environment, my plants are typically pretty happy. I’m happy. Sure, there are crop failures. That’s gardening. But nature wants to live!

This is a fact that many struggle to grasp, believing that nature can’t possibly heal itself and that without chemical intervention, any plant will die. It’s a marvel that woods, prairies, and otherwise natural areas are alive, based on this mentality. Naturally, it’s a mindset cultivated by the educational establishment and media, controlled by the chemical companies.

I could wax poetic for quite some time here about the miracle of how much food one can obtain from a tiny, little seed, some work, and a whole lot of love, but I’ll simply state that I have been playing in garden soil since I was old enough to sit up, and have never once done a soil test. Of course, many will insist that a soil test is absolutely essential and failure to have a soil test done on a property will only result in abject failure.

Be wary of subscribing dogmatically to any gardening approach or recommendation. Personally I’m a big fan of no-till gardening. Yet I bought a little electric tiller last year and now till the garden, because if I didn’t, all of the water and nutrients would be stolen by the trees nearby. If I had continued to stick to the no-till method, I would have no food from my garden!