Urban Gardening For Nutritional

Resilience

This Power Point is a Gift– enjoy!! Kia Ora, We only taught this workshop in Tauranga on

our workshop tour because that was the only place people booked to see it in large enough numbers. We believe urban gardening for nutritional resilience is one of the most exciting fields to be involved in at this time and our research model of an urban garden is humming and very exciting. We want you to know about it and get excited too!!!!. You can see monthly blogs on our website and regular facebook posts on the Koanga facebook page. We teach Urban Gardening and Nutritional Resilience workshops and we have a wonderful booklet called the 200 sq m Urban Garden!!!

BriefUrban, low income, family of 4Unable to source high-quality food and unable

to afford itResourceful, willing to learn, lots of timeBudget of $2,000Mediterranean climate, rainfall 1600mm,

Free-draining sandy loam soilsWant a design to grow as much as possible of

their nutritional needs as they can, based on principles Weston Price discovered, that super-healthy indigenous peoples followed

Weston A. Price

www.westonaprice.org

The diets of all healthy traditional people’s he studied included

No refined or denatured foodsNo vegetarian diets4 times the calcium and 10 times the fat-soluble vitamins

that western people had in the 1920’sProvision for the health of future generations by providing

special nutrient rich food for parents to be

The Weston Price Foundation has added the following to help us understand what Weston Price found and what we need to do to achieve high health according to his findings

Some sort of animal protein and fatSome animal products eaten raw dailyHigh food enzyme contentSeeds grains nuts were soaked sprouted, fermented, or

naturally leavenedTotal fat content varied from 30-80% of calories eaten;

only 4% of that from polyunsaturated sourcesEqual amounts omega-3 and omega-6

Calcium 1,500mg

Vitamin A Vitamin D

12,000 IU4,000 IU

Levels of vitamins and minerals recommended by the Weston A. Price Foundation, per day

Fats 30-80% of total calorie intake!!! Only 4% of that not saturated animal fat!!!!

Calcium

1500mg daily

requiremen

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1 cup of raw milk contains 160 mg

1 cup kefir/yogurt 160 mg

45 gms cheese      450 mg

2 Tbsp butter     100 mg

Well-made broth 1 cup 100 mg

Casseroles, stews, soups made with broth 1 cup around

100 mg

100 gms high brix deep green vege     

100 mg

1/4 cup nuts if soaked      100 mg

8x sardines and small fish cooked in bones, shell fish  

40 mg

Avocado 100 gmsEggs x 2 Herbs and spices

12 mg50mgsignificant

Do we go the dairy option or the bone option?

Calcium 1500mg daily requirement: note Vitamin D

and magnesium required to absorb calcium

Well-made broth 2 cups 200 mg

Casseroles, stews, soups made with broth 1 cup around

100 mg

2x100 gms high brix dark green vege      200 mg

1/4 cup nuts if soaked 2 eggs    

100 mg50mg

Daily Vitamin A

Recommended WAPF Daily intake 12,000 IU

Daily Vit A

Liver 30 gms once a week (or 2,500 daily, because vitamin A is stored) from 1.5 rabbit livers, shared amongst 4 people weekly

2.500

Broth (2cup/600g daily x 7) from rabbit and chicken carcasses, including offal and heads and chicken feet and all fat

4,000

Eggs (2 egg yolks daily) 50gms x 7 1000

Olive oil 100 gms, daily x 7 220

Daily Total 7,700

Key elements of our design are

1. Focus on traditional “sacred foods”

a. Vitamins especially Vitamin A: rabbit/chicken livers, broth, heads, all organ meats, and chicken eggs…

b. Calcium, bone broth, eggs, high brix fruits and vege, and nuts and oils

c. Traditional fats and oils, eggs, olives, nuts, honey, chicken and rabbit

2. High-Brix vege, fruit, nuts, and oils

a. Choosing heritage vegetable, nut and fruit cultivars, and then within the heritage range those that are known to contain high levels of phytonutrients

b.Environment – Remineralising the soil

3. 402m Salads, Stir Fries, Soups and Stews Garden

Biointensive, maximum efficiency/production, growing soil

Heritage seedSpecific vege for nutrient density and

square-meter productionGrow to high brixDesign for daily harvesting

Food worth $2500 for a family of 4, on a daily basis, year round

4. Design for year round ripening times for all food sources

5. Top Bar Beehive

6. Use of vertical spaces

Enables use of concrete areas for maximum production, least water

7. Wicking beds

Enables use of concrete areas for maximum production, least water

7. Wicking beds

8. Box gardensHigh production from specific crops in

problematic areasWater chestnuts, watercress, kang

kong, kumara, potatoes, etc.

9. Solar DrierMaximum use of what is available for

harvesting from site and wider foraging area, herbs, seaweed, fruit, soaking and drying nuts, tomatoes etc.

10. Passive-solar clocheTo enable use of

own seeds essential for completion of process of co-evolution, and using heritage seed with seedlings ready at best time

Best use of tree branches etc., left after rabbits have eaten leaves and bark, bringing nutrients into system from wider area

Biochar goes into compost system under chickens, to be charged and ready to grow high brix vege

11. Biochar maker

We’ll use the following strategies/techniques to achieve

production of animals, fruits, vege, etc., in a regenerative way

1. Systems to provide for our own rabbit and chicken feed

Worm farm under rabbit hutches

Soldier Fly larvae farm for chickens

Compost heap under chickens

Nutrient-dense mineral accumulators grown in every space available, e.g. comfry, alfalfa, chicory, sorrel, clover, yarrow, tagasaste

Forage from wider areaGuerilla plantingsApple tree pruningsSeaweed from beach

2. Remineralisation of our patch!

Recycle all bones and shells, via ash/biochar

Recycle all brown cardboard and non-toxic paper available

Collect leaves in autumn

Collect rabbits’ tree food from wider area, bringing in nutrients

Composting toiletFishForest garden layers

3. Good genetics

AnimalsVegeFruit/nuts