Garden time is coming

[Jimi]

Hello Urban Farmers & Friends, For those of us who grow food in apartments or small yards, or just want to bring a little garden indoors, we may not have the luxury of ample space. So how do we make the most out of what we have? This month, the Urban Farm Grower’s Guide focuses on how to best utilize small spaces when growing food. Here are a couple ideas: Grow fast and easy microgreens in a week with an easy technique called Indoor Salad Gardening. We have three ways to learn more: a podcast interview, a Garden Chat replay, and a blog article. Grow a variety of indoor vegetables with a Tower Garden (I've been using mine for years and love it!) - learn what it is and how I'm using mine. And, as a gift for being an Urban Farm U subscriber, I want to give you my Grow Wherever You Go eBook. This is a collection of stories that illustrate how others have grown food in unorthodox spaces so that you can see new potential in your growing environment. Click here to download Grow Wherever You Go (PDF).​

Greg Peterson Your Urban Farmer Janis Norton General Manager​

P.S. I'd like to spotlight one of my favorites courses we offer at Urban Farm U... Creating Your Permaculture City with Toby Hemenway (author of Gaia's Garden). Sadly, Toby is no longer with us. However, we were able to preserve this incredible course for your learning. Creating Your Permaculture City is perspective-changing and will expand your ideas about how permaculture can be applied to your yard and your life. Click Here to learn more.​

 

[Jimi]

Forwarded this email? Subscribe here for more Watch now​ Survival gardening in the heat​ yes,there are plants that do well in the heat.​ Marjory Wildcraft Jul 5 ​ ​ ​ ​ READ IN APP ​ Oh my! this was shot many years, uh decades? ago. The great thing about survival is… it’s timeless. It’s appropriate no matter what age you live in. This video goes over several plants beyond the “okra, basil, sweet potatoes, and black eyed peas” standard advice. Watch these short videos and gain extremely useful knowledge that will come back to you need it most. Like next year? Oh yeah, that famine is coming. BTW this video is in the YouTube archives on the Legacy Drive Hard to believe that was my garden in August in Texas… you can tell I wanted to move to the tropics! I was always working to create lush green landscapes that didn’t need much support.​

 

[Jimi]

Near Death Experiences: What People Report If you've ever dismissed near-death experiences as vivid hallucinations or wishful thinking, philosopher Stafford Betty would ask you to sit with one question first… Why do they all look so similar? An elderly Baptist man from Alabama, a gay atheist from Madrid, and a Mormon housewife from Idaho all report leaving their bodies, moving toward a light, encountering deceased relatives, and coming into the presence of a Being of overwhelming love and knowledge. If these were hallucinations shaped by individual memory and expectation, they should look completely different from person to person. They don't, and that consistency is genuinely difficult to explain away. Betty also points to something most people don't know… NDErs (near-death experiencers) show no rapid eye movement during their experiences, the biological signature that always accompanies dreaming and hallucination. People who have experienced both hallucinations and NDEs consistently say the two feel nothing alike, and Betty argues we should take that seriously because they're the closest thing we have to actual witnesses. The evidence gets harder to dismiss from there. Studies of blind NDErs, including people blind from birth, show they report accurate visual experiences during their out-of-body state that match what was actually happening around their physical bodies at the time. Research comparing what NDErs described seeing during resuscitation to what control groups guessed had happened found that NDErs made virtually no errors while the control group missed almost everything. Betty is careful not to claim NDEs prove life after death with absolute certainty, but his conclusion is honest and grounded. The evidence makes it probable enough to take seriously. And the transformation these experiences produce in people, atheists losing their atheism, fearful people losing their fear of death entirely, regardless of what they believed going in, is the kind of change that hallucinations simply don't produce. Read the full philosophical dialogue and decide for yourself what the evidence points to >> We just shared what serious researchers are finding about near-death experiences and why the evidence for what lies beyond death is stronger than most people expect. This video takes everything we just discussed out of the academic world and into something far more immediate. A woman died, crossed into Heaven, and came back with a specific warning for Americans about what is still unfolding in 2026. The details aren't vague or symbolic. They're precise, they're urgent, and the people who walked into this video as committed skeptics are walking out of it completely changed. If the NDE research resonated with you, this is the natural next step. Watch the full video here >>

 

[gopher_byrd]

Today's harvest. Roma tomatoes and the first Arkansas Traveler to get close to ripe.



Some black cherry tomatoes, some jalapenos and a lone cayenne:

 

[Jimi]

Ok Here's my Pick of the Day for July 6

Got my first cuke of the year today (can't wait to have my breakfast salad)
The zuke is a black beauty zuke
A few grape maters
and a few onions that had been necked over for about a week
I'm seein lots of cukes startin
I knocked over the rest of the onions, be pullin them in a week or so
I did that to put in 6 more zukes, we use a lot of zuke in soups, baked, salads, so many uses so I want plenty for the winter