Growing edible landscaping in and/or outside the office

If you work in a traditional complacent environment, you'll find it hard to convince people to grow edible landscaping on the building grounds. That will probably take time. So the next thing you can do is find less obvious spots, perhaps behind signage, or behind buildings, or on top of your building. Chat with the grounds keepers about it, they are closer to the earth, more likely to understand.

If that all does not work, how about right in your office or cubicle? This surely is your space, and you should be able to grow an edible plant in that location. Some of the things growing in my office currently..

Cucumber.
Bell peppers grow in northern climates in the winter in an office with south facing windows.
Cayenne peppers and chives.

Eventually even the stubborn people will start realizing it makes sense to swap ornamental petrochemical dependent landscaping for edible landscaping. Edible and beautiful, you can have both!

Harvesting and crushing Black Walnuts

Some folks don't really care about the fruit on their trees, but are nice enough to share them with others, such as through graigslist, so I went in and got some of these difficult nuts, perhaps 150 lbs or so. This is the fun part driving over them, powered by vegetable oil of course.



Got some strawbales as well, not enough to insulate the house though, but perhaps enough to make a cold frame to grow salad in the winter.

Gardeners can find plenty of leaves for free in bags during the fall

Brown's edition and the South Hill are good places to get your free mulch for your organic garden. I like to mow them up some more, then spread them on my vegetable beds, they also discourage weeds that way. Folks have already put the leaves in bags for you and they are on the curb. Why not grab some...