Hi everyone, with the incoming #tariffs likely affecting the cost and availability of food, please feel free to reach out if you need help foraging or growing your own food. Just tag me with any Q’s.
Below are #FoodSecurity links you may find useful. 1/2 
Find and support local growers here:
https://www.localharvest.org/
https://blackfarmersindex.com
Locate a food co-op near you:
http://www.grocerystory.coop
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Find community gardens near you:
https://www.communitygarden.org
Volunteer here to help food insecure communities through local social programs:
@jblue which plants would you plant/let growth that needs the least care, are reproducing themselves and together can fill your stomach enough?
@desirable_dialogue my Tepary beans reseed themselves and I never water them. Okra are also easy - leaves, pods and flowers are edible. Everbearing mulberries - leaves and fruit are edible. Mitsuba reseeds itself and is really weedy. Double blooming raspberries are easy. Mint is super easy and very weedy. Boehmeria is a native plant to most of North America and is perennial besides seeding out. (Leaves are edible). Grapes (leaves and fruit edible. Fennel also very weedy. 
Beets (leaves and tubers) are easy and won’t bolt. Romano beans are easy and prolific, do ok in hot weather and produce over an extended period of time (sugar snaps grow fast, produce and die out).
Jujubes produce a lot. I prefer to grow baccatum or chinense species of pepper bc they live many years. Just trim them down to 8” and keep cool over winter. Then take outside when the weather warms up again. You’ll have peppers earlier in the year if you don’t have to grow from seed every year.
Actual weeds like dandelions and sheep’s sorrel are easy to grow and spread aggressively.
Green onion easily reseeds itself but you can only eat so much…
Blackberries and blueberries are easy.
Goumi produces a lot once it gets going and fixes nitrogen.
Tree collards are pretty easy if you live in a zone where they can grow perennially (or you can overwinter).
Pecan trees are intensely producing if you have the patience to wait for the tree to mature.
Tamarind (leaves and fruit are edible) you can grow as a large bonsai and eat the leaves. It needs quite a bit of light to produce a lot of leaves and needs to be kept above 40F.
Jaboticaba can grow in a pot and produces tons of fruit once it matures but you need to let it get big and get a variety that is everbearing (escarlate or red hybrid).
I think I forgot sissoo spinach. It doesn’t grow from seed but is easily propagated by sticking the stems in soil. It’s also low maintenance but needs warm weather to grow. It stops growing at around 50F. Freezing temps kill it. It’s a small, low growing plant so is easy to overwinter indoors.
Grape Leaves are best when new, they get tough later. But we gather them too, and use them in salads. Another Salad fave, that grows fast and furious, is Mustard Greens. incorrectly labeled and sent to me, I expected Kale to grow. These are large leaf (like a single romaine leaf) peppery in taste, good add to salads, but it lives long into fall and sometimes restarts again in spring on its own.
I dropped a seed in gravel, it grew all summer
@jblue
Hi! Do you have any links that I could use while living in Poland?
From what I see your links are mostly about America's projects
@Jueltrae, alas, I’m not familiar with Polish community programs, but some German users here may be able to assist you with farming, gardening and #allotment in your climate. Try #garten for more visibility. (I’m in a subtropical climate.)
One suggestion: consider checking with local arborists for compost materials, as they need to dispose of waste and often need to pay to do so. It’s cheaper and convenient for them to give it to gardeners. Both US and UK have free services
to connect arborists and gardeners.
With composting, you need a mix of “browns” (~ 2/3) and “greens” (~1/3) to get the best nutrition for your plants to grow well.
If the chip dump does not include a lot of green leaf litter, you can supplement it with greens you can get from grocery stores, shake shacks or even restaurants. Just ask if they have rotten veg you can use for compost.
I use orange peels from local grocery stores’ juicers. It’s free but not organic.
Anyway, I mention this bc I don’t know your soil conditions and if you are starting from scratch. You need a lot of good soil for veg/fruit to grow well and these are potentially free resources.
It takes about 6 months to completely break down into soil. Or at least here it does. Again, not sure how it will be in Poland. Where I am, it’s 27C+ from April through beginning of November.
@jblue Also, coffee grounds count as “green” for compost purposes.
@jblue for those in greater Boston (esp. Boston proper, Milton, and Quincy), consider joining the Dorchester Food Coop, contributing to the solidarity fund, and shopping regularly here - even if that’s like once/month. Thx, jblue. So many big reasons to co-op. https://www.dorchesterfoodcoop.com/
@tsyum @jblue for those of us further west of #boston - folks have been organizing to start the #CharlesRiver food #coop with aims to have a location in #watertown #WalthamMA or #Newton https://charlesriverfood.coop/home #massachusetts