Subversive Seeding

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This is an easy kind of Druidry In Action. Loads of seeds can be saved from food, from your garden, or bought from gardening supplies outlets.

And there's a lot of land that could grow food. Now I've started to notice, I see community activity in common land all the time. There are patterns of bulbs in parks, a small grove planted on the rough ground on the common, a pet graveyard in a local woodland. Lots of people are doing it.

Traditionally people who live indigenously in forests participate in their landscape. We can participate in our landscape by helping it become even more fruitful for humans to eat. Here's a way to act on all that stuff about eating more locally, even if you don't have a garden. Maybe in four generations' time common land will be a riot of curly kale, wild runner beans, cherry trees and thick drifts of quinoa?

It's not humans who grow food, ultimately it's Nature. We're just widening the opportunities available to our land to choose what it wants to grow. [wikipedia]Masanobu Fukuoka, the venerable sage of Natural Farming, recommends studying the plant families present and offering seeds from edible varieties of the same family. That means if you see nettles, you're in luck (they are a sign of nitrogen rich earth which is good for growing, as well).

~-(This could be illustrated with pictures of apples, plums, cherries, any food that grows with little maintenance.)-~

There are a lot of areas that could be used for this type of seeding, not only woodland, but areas such as railway embankments, roadside scrubland, motorway access ramps etc. Whilst planting right next to a motorway may not be desired, some careful planning, using natural screening, taking into account the prevailing wind should help.

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I heard on the Fukuoka Farming e-list that Russian Red Kale is a good hardy self-seeding leaf vegetable. I've scattered some red kale seed into my experimental plot (bought from Ryton Organic Gardens the nearby HDRA centre) and I'll let you know how it gets on. — Alice
Now that does sound good, Alice. I'd be very interested in finding out how you get on. Whilst not a large plot, I do have a reasonably sized garden here, which gets plenty of sun-light. We're just about to get planning on what we'd like to do with it. We've got a percentage sign-up for crofting what we can, the rest I'd like to be as wild as possible :) — NathanReynolds