Comments on: 100 FOOT DIET CHALLENGE LAUNCH

By: Burt & Associates

Burt & Associates — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 08:39:52 +0000

You have got some seriously valuable information written here. Good job and keep posting superb stuff.

By: Diane

Diane — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 21:01:20 +0000

I am going to try it again this year, lost the battle to the deer las t year, any suggestions?

By: Jim

Jim — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 22:06:56 +0000

I've been onboard with the 100 foot diet idea for years with my high altitude garden here in Colorado. Last year I also started a micro-farm and CSA with some friends outside of Boulder and it was a great success! I use the Fantastic Farm & Garden Calculator http://www.landshareco.org/ to plan both my Square Foot Garden at home, and for planning our biointensive micro-farm & CSA. For me, it is a very hand online garden & farm planning tool, plus the subscription fee supports a good cause.

By: Fred

Fred — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 20:32:41 +0000

My son recently enjoyed his first carrot right out of the ground! Knocked off the dirt and cruched away. We live in a zone 9(b) climate. Put in our first winter garden this past Nov. and are enjoying the benefits! Also planted 3 fruit trees in the past month. Really getting into learning the micro climates of our yard. All the flower beds have been converted to food production. Considering converting most of the backyard lawn to raised beds. Even the frontyard is under consideration. The 100 foot diet challege is alive and well in our home.

By: Maxkw

Maxkw — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 23:03:54 +0000

I at one time turned my parents' small backyard into a wildflower sanctuary of sorts. It was much prettier than the lawn had been and it didn't require mowing. My wife and I have since moved into our own home. One of the first things we did was to convert better than half of our lawn into a vegetable garden. We often eat meals made entirely of foods produced within 100 feet of our kitchen, and we try always to buy from local farmers those items we can't or don't grow. We became interested in self-sufficient living as a means to save money; but, as we learned more about homesteading, we became more and more aware of the ridiculousness of agribusiness and the futility of maintaining this country's economic status quo.Currently, we're getting into native North American foods as well as permaculture and water harvesting.

By: Jimmy

Jimmy — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 04:37:18 +0000

Total diet from garden every day for over 12 years

all calories came from garden

each year ..we each raised dry yellow corn ... dry beans , squash , seasonal vegetables

Trees ... olive , almond,figs, apples , apricots , and grapes

no importing ... no fertilizer .. fallow and crop rotation

approx 2.5 acres / adult for calories

some tree crops were sold

Northern California

By: Jimmy

Jimmy — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 04:14:23 +0000

I have grown my total diet

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 04:12:23 +0000

July 21, 2009

with volunteer tomato plants, that was the beginning of a few things to grow.
then............I found your website.
I have not been able to leave it, till I read everything I can, on how you started out.
now, those volunteer tomatoes have added company, in the three raised beds, with home started tomatoes, from my cousin.
they're waist high and have sooo many blossoms.
the next step is to add as many other things that can be planted in time for a full season, in my zone 8.

you have introduced me to a completely new way of thinking. I used to dream of being independent of the utility companies.
now, with your plan, I will do all I can, to make it all happen. One son is getting information to set up solar panels on the roof, for me, this up and coming spring.
thank you, thank you and I'll be keeping notes on all of this.

By: Matushka

Matushka — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 08:37:49 +0000

I would like to be included in the 100 Foot Challenge.

By: Sarah Sanders

Sarah Sanders — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 03:19:15 +0000

My family and I have been enjoying a prolific harvest of some of our cool-weather crops - spinach and salad greens! Lots of salads and wonderful green smoothies! Our favorite green smoothie has been named "Green Monster" by my kids. We make it using homemade plain yogurt, banana, Peanut butter, vanilla, stevia and TONS of spinach or other salad greens - packed in so full til you can't fit anymore in the blender (we really prefer the spinach)! ) whir it up and...Mmmmmmm....healthy and delicious!