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

 

[gopher_byrd]

Some maters today 3 Roma and one Arkansas Traveler and some small red onions.

 

[Jimi]

Here's my Pick of the Day for July 7

Dug a few red taders, I was hungry for a real garden tader
A few radishes for my salad
A full size cuke, I already ate the other one
Some grape maters
a hot pepper for in in breakfast salad in the mornin
and my first 2 big maters (damsel)

 

[2WhiteWolves]

Had some tomatoes ready, was going to pick them off, went out there to get them and something already ate all of them !

Hopefully, nothing will get the green and red peppers when they are ready, and shall get next round of tomatoes.

 

[Jimi]

Ok here's my Pick of the day for July 9

Cukes did pretty good today, gonna have a couple for brunch
Got a couple small radishes
One of those Who Knows peppers and a jalapeno
some grape tomatoes
a couple damsel tomatoes
Had one of my Roma tomatoes layin on the ground so it should slow ripen
And some Broccoli side shoots




And you can't have cukes with out onions so I pulled a few that the critters knocked down

 

[Jimi]

Had some tomatoes ready, was going to pick them off, went out there to get them and something already ate all of them !

Hopefully, nothing will get the green and red peppers when they are ready, and shall get next round of tomatoes.

Awe sorry to hear that, usually either Raccoons, opossoms, or rabbits
Try gettin a small roll of rabbit fence, it won't stop the raccoons but it it will stop thwe rabbits and opossoms

 

[2WhiteWolves]

Awe sorry to hear that, usually either Raccoons, opossoms, or rabbits
Try gettin a small roll of rabbit fence, it won't stop the raccoons but it it will stop thwe rabbits and opossoms

Thank you! Yup, have to do this. Last year nothing ate them, lol. And there are plenty of these little critters running around here, lol.

 

[gopher_byrd]

Maters are starting to ripen in numbers. I'm gonna have to start canning some soon...

 

[Jimi]

Here's my Pick/Dig of the day for July 11

Today's pick
Got a few radishes
some of those who knows peppers
Some cukes, had more but SIL wanted a couple
some Jalapeno peppers some grape maters
A damsel mater (pink one)
And a green mater, every day for about a week now I have been findin green maters on the ground that are either bit on of mashed, takes some weight to mash a green mater, rabbit, raccoon, nope not heavy enough so today I seen what it was, seen deer tracks in the mud cause I watered last night, Deer are tough to keep out they jump fences.



Ok and here's my dig of the day
Red Viking taders, and it was tough dig, well maybe it's I am gettin older and just don't wanna admit it so the ground was tough and well settled is what I am sayin.
My taders didn't do well at all, my worst year ever
But still thankful for what I did get.
Oh in the middle are casualties, (ones I hit with the fork while diggin, those will get trimmed and ate tonight

 

[Jimi]

 

[Jimi]

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[Jimi]

 

[Jimi]

Here's my Pick of the day for July 12

Not much today
a few radishes
one of my Roma type maters that the deer knocked down last night
One of my 2 bite yellow maters W. peach I love these, surprised they made it to a picture
A Damsel mater, Love those too, such a wonderful taste
3 cukes
And a couple spraigs of Dill, those are goin to end up in the bottom of a jar of ferminting cukes

 

[Jimi]

As gardeners, we know that growing food is about much more than what ends up on our plates. It begins with the soil beneath our feet. It connects us to the health of our communities, the resilience of our food system, and the future we’re helping create for the next generation. The Need To GROW is an inspiring, award-winning documentary about soil, food, and the innovative solutions that could help restore our planet. And right now, you can watch the full film for free. >> Watch The Need To GROW for free here

The film follows three remarkable people who are each working to create meaningful change: An eight-year-old activist challenging a powerful organization. A farmer pioneering more resource-efficient ways to grow food. And an inventor developing technology designed to help restore damaged soil. Their stories are moving, hopeful, and a powerful reminder that solutions already exist—and that each of us can play a part. We especially appreciate that this isn’t simply a film about everything that is going wrong. It is about what people are doing to make things better. Whether you grow a few herbs, tend a backyard garden, or are working toward greater food independence, we think you’ll come away feeling encouraged about the difference that growing, protecting our soil, and supporting a healthier food system can make. >> Watch the free screening of The Need To GROW today Set aside some time to watch it while the complimentary screening is still available. I think you’ll find it both eye-opening and deeply inspiring. To growing a healthier future, The Grow Your Own Vegetables Team P.S. The film is approximately 90 minutes long and is only available to watch free for a limited time. Start watching The Need To GROW now.

 

[Jimi]

Ok here's my Pick/Pull of the day

My pick
not much at all
4 cukes
Some grape maters
A Damsel mater ( pink one)
And 2 of my Roma type maters





Ok and now for my Pull of the day
Took out some of my onions




They didn't do as good as last year but for the year we are havin (Drought) I am still Very Thankful

 

[gopher_byrd]

Tomatoes, mostly Roma and a few Arkansas Travelers.

 

[gopher_byrd]

Chilies today. Hatch, Chili De Arbol, a lonely Shishito, and Cayenne.

 

[gopher_byrd]

Roma tomatoes today

 

[Jimi]

Your garden is always communicating. Sometimes it speaks through yellowing leaves, slow growth, pests, dry soil, or plants that seem to thrive without much effort at all. Other times, it speaks through the quiet moments when you step outside and notice what feels peaceful, what feels overwhelming, or what is asking for your attention. The more you learn to listen, the more gardening becomes less about doing everything perfectly and more about responding with curiosity. This week’s blog is a gentle reminder that your garden already has wisdom to share. You just have to slow down enough to notice it. >> Read Your Garden Is Already Talking to You May your garden surprise you with what it has to say, The Grow Your Own Vegetables Team P.S. This week’s comic is a reminder that your garden may have more to say than you think.

 

[Jimi]

Ok here's some of Jean's (my wife) picks from yesterday and Friday, I have been laid up and can't get out there, She had others but didn't take any pictures

Yesterday
Broccoli
Grape maters
Cukes
jalapeno peppers
A damsel mater
And one of my roma type maters




Friday

4 roma type maters
A Damsel mater
couple cukes
and grape maters

 

[Jimi]

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DID YOU KNOW? Bumblebees appear to play. When researchers at Queen Mary University of London gave them tiny wooden balls with no reward attached, the bees rolled them over and over anyway, some even somersaulting while they held on. Younger bees played the most, which is the same pattern you see in young mammals. This all contributes to the idea that these small pollinators have richer inner lives than anyone assumed.​

 

[Jimi]

Hello Urban Farmers and Friends, Maybe your garden isn't cutting it. Whether you are an aspiring gardener or are already growing a bounty, sometimes we need to supplement what we're growing. Unless we're applying permaculture on a large scale, it's not so easy to grow everything we need to eat. That's when I like to go to my local farmer's market to buy what I need that I'm not growing. I love supporting other farmers, ensuring that I'm still eating as freshly as possible, AND connecting with my local community. I love these related articles to get excited about the farmer's market: Urban Farm U team member Tayler on Where to Find Real Food Deanna Cook on 6 Ways to Create Farmer's Market Fun with Kids Already growing an abundance? Then maybe you want to sell your food at the market Enjoy!​

 

[gopher_byrd]

More Roma tomatoes

 

[Jimi]

I trimmed up my onions and lettin them sun for the day before puttin them in storage, here you can see them better

 

[Jimi]

Here's Jean's Pick of the Day for July 21

To start far right are some sweet peppers the two smaller green ones were rubbin the fence and made a spot so they had to come off, can't wait to have the red one in salads
Several maters there the pink ones are either damsel or blushing star
The red ones are mortgage lifters
The four bigger Roma type are Amish Paste, my favorite Roma type, sweet, very meaty, and very few seeds
One cuke, Deer have found my cuke vines and they like them
2 little yellow 2 bite maters, Love these too
5 of my other kinda Roma's
The big mater, looks like 2 but one that split when she picked it is a big Damsel, love those too
a few radishes between the Roma's and the Box









And the big Pick of the day is still comin,

 

[Jimi]

Ok now for the Big Pick of the day
While I trimmed the old onions for storage Jean pulled the rest of our onion crop
















I was honestly hopin to do better, looks like a lot of onions but we go through 2 to 3 a day, I can eat them like an apple these are so sweet