What you've been up to: tools to help us live out of the system

We make the system irrelevant by finding ways to buy, trade or get services directly from each other. Here are some people doing really interesting things:

*Maria created The Brainy Chef Club while homeschooling her children. Using baking to teach core academic subjects others are now using her lesson plans. https://t.me/thebrainychefclub Check out a free lesson plan here. Add $0 at checkout https://linktr.ee/thebrainychefclub

*Micky from MD Survival has set up this great swap group: https://t.me/swapuk

*Buy, Sell, Exchange or Barter for the awake community:
https://t.me/AwakeMarketplace

See our last post on tools to help us live out of the system:
https://t.me/TheGrowingProject/68?single

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What you've been up to: creative use of space

We loved seeing these pictures from ECJ. A lot of care and love has clearly gone into this.

"I rebuilt my garden myself last year and started growing this summer.

The canopy is to protect my veg from the sun (south facing) tomatos cucs aubergine chillis growing in planters on wall up herbs and other salad leaves in the tins.

I grow using the square foot gardening philosophy - divide into square feet and plant within each - am learning as I go along - grew all my tomato plants from seed and many of the others...next phase will be a watering system - I am lucky because I have been able to invest some money on the project but did pretty much all of the work myself and it brings me enormous satisfaction and joy to go out into what was once a pretty awful back yard." ECJ

Sonia, Jen and team

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What you've been up to: celebrating the rain

Until this week it had been a very long time since we had had rain in London so a topic of conversation with strangers has been how happy we are now it's come.

This lovely, joyous man was ecstatic about the rain and we had a great conversation about how nature renews itself and is so much more powerful than humans.

He also pointed out that a couple of days ago the grass across from us was completely dry and yellow and it only took the downpour a couple of days ago for green patches to start appearing. 

It's only since I started growing that I really appreciate rain.

Sonia


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Interesting and useful resources for self-sufficient living:

Thank you to Florere for these recommendations.

*First up is Florere's channel which has ideas for self-sufficiency, off-grid living, prepping or use of natural products/materials.
https://t.me/selfsufficientcommunity

*Next up is a group for people who are into self sufficiency, foraging, have land, healthier eating, allotments & farm lands to help grow food. They also encourage communities to purchase straight from farmers.
https://t.me/+-a7sWI8K5pxlMjc0

*Finally a group to help and get advice on growing your own foods
https://t.me/UKGardenAllotments


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I'm sure everyone following this channel understands that mainstream media's purpose is to keep us dumbed down & enjoying our servitude.

For those of you that haven't cancelled your TV licence yet please do, it's an easy & straightforward process & a satisfying small step to making the system irrelevant.

TV licencing state: You can cancel your licence if you no longer:

*watch or record programmes as they’re being shown on TV, on any channel

*watch or stream programmes live on an online TV service (such as ITV Hub, YouTube, Amazon Prime etc.)

*download or watch any BBC programmes on BBC iPlayer.

You don’t need a TV Licence if you only ever use online services to watch on demand or catch up programmes, except if you’re watching BBC programmes on BBC iPlayer.

You can file all the threatening letters you get in your bin.

Here's a couple of useful links:

unitynewsnetwork.co.uk/pull-the-plug-on-the-bbc-a-how-to-guide/

www.tvlicensing.co.uk/faqs/FAQ265

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What we've been up to:

This is the first time I've grown sweetcorn, previously I only had a small amount of space. These can take up a 1sq ft area each!

Sweetcorn is wind pollinated so it needs to be sown in 'blocks' rather than single rows.  This way the wind will scatter its pollen over all corn stalks.

Each kernel is attached to a 'silk' the sliky strands that you see coming out the top of corn are what pollinate the fruit. Each silk needs to have come in contact with the pollen that drops from the tasstles that emerge from the top of the plant just before the silks start to appear from the top of each cob. If some of the strands don't have any pollen touch them those silk strands won't pollinate the kernels they're attached to - like mine! The way to correct this is, once the silks start showing at the tip of cob, go around & gently shake each stem or pluck off one top strand & manually tap it over the cob silks.

They usually produce 2 / 3 ears of corn for each plant.

Jen

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