Living Garden

Living Garden

Introduction

The Living Garden is the pillar of the Soil to plate to Soil, SPS concept forming a wonderful circle where living conditions are optimized for our non-talking partners underneath our feet as well as us human beings. The soil is fertilized by humanure, organic waste, and green manure. The plants are grown in the living soil and food is prepared with solar dryers using the healing heat of around 40°C that will give you a happy stomach since it will supply you with the nutrients and enzymes you need for a healthy life with a strong immune defense.

The Living Garden is an organic farming technique that involves building up a natural self-sustaining ecosystem, defended by natural enemies to pests -the predators. Lady Bugs, beetles, wasps, lacewings spiders, and predatory mites are some of them. The defense against pests is also involving the push and pull technique, where one plant defends another.

It is also a weed-free garden, resilience adapted to climate change. Weeds is a mental concept introduced by the western world for the introduction of chemical pesticides that create a war against your nontalking garden staff, the microbiome underneath your feet, pollinators, and predators. Your African ancestors knew very well that weeds are wild plants that can be used as

•Food ingredients for the living bread that has been baked for more than 2000 years

•Medicines for curing diseases

•Skin preparative

•Herbal tea mixtures with the amazingly good health impact

•Biopest production

The soil in the Living Garden is a homestead for our non-talking partners and need just like we a healthy environment and a healthy diet to work well, and they are many. In an area of 2 acres down toa depth of 25 cm their total weight is around 25 tons. In a living soil you will have a symbiosis between the root bacteria and the plant. The microbes will feed the plants with the nutrition they need, and the plant will feed the bacteria with sugar via their root tips.

By deep drill soilification of organic waste and humanure for creation of a root profile of plants extending downwards even as deep as 5 meters the soil degradation can be prevented and soil fertility will remain even under severe draughts.

Living Garden Design

The Living Garden will produce the ingredients in the living bread and yummies and

the biotope design will involve

•Trees, bushes, and plants that can be used for fencing the Living Garden

•Fruit trees and berry bushes that can be used to the attraction of predators and pollinators

•Recreational areas surrounded by trees, birds, butterflies, ladybugs, and living walls of flowers for mental recovery through fragrance and colors.

Wild plants are a vital part of an ecosystem, performing different services such as protecting and restoring exposed or degraded soils, i.e., especially in the fixing of vital nutrients into the soil, for example; broad-leafed wild plants are important in the fixing of phosphate and potash imbalance in the soil, while grasses such as foxtail and quack grass are important in correcting calcium deficiency. Also, some wild plants provide a habitat for beneficial organisms, therefore contributing to the natural and biological control of some insect pests, while other wild plants make nutritious food or fodder.

Foxtail Grass

Calliandra growing around a living garden setup is very important, because it provides quality fodder for livestock, poles, and bee forage, improving soil fertility through nitrogen fixing, soil erosion control, for ornamental purposes, and as windbreaks.

 Calliandra has lower enteric methane emissions when fed to ruminants, as compared to grasses, it reduces the emissions by 24%. Thus Calliandra will be an important transition crop for introducing the raw vegan diet when considering resilience adaption to global warming.

The Neem trees and Moringa trees will be pillars in the Garden due to their powerful impact on health and use as biopests

The Living Garden will also include areas for health improvements. Spending time surrounded by a garden has a number of physical, mental, and spiritual benefits that can help in recovery from addiction to drugs or alcohol. It has also been proven to lower your risk of depression, has positive effects on your mood, cognitive functioning, and working memory, and lessens feelings of anxiety. The Living Garden design will be a habitat for trees, birds, and flagrant flowers used in Aroma Therapy. Aromatic volatile substances (Phytoncides) increase the activity of natural killer cells and anticancer intracellular proteins, and decrease the concentration of T-cells, adrenalin, and noradrenaline, consequently reducing stress levels.

Lavender and Rosemary are some examples that lower stress

 The Living Garden is like a living being and can continuously keep on reproducing itself with reforestation areas in between and will thus pave the way for the reclaim of denuded land and even deserts.

The knowledge of biotope design for predators and pollinators, and use of wild plants is ancient knowledge that needs to be rescued for generations to come before it is too late. Schools can become a key agent for the gathering of this knowledge from Grandmothers and Grandfathers to pupils at all levels of education