{"id":2568,"date":"2017-12-11T01:18:24","date_gmt":"2017-12-11T06:18:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=2568"},"modified":"2017-11-30T08:23:56","modified_gmt":"2017-11-30T13:23:56","slug":"grow-your-own-food-not-but","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2017\/12\/grow-your-own-food-not-but\/","title":{"rendered":"Grow Your Own Food (not, but)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n<p><strong>There are a long list of things we could try that would not work, but there may be side benefits for trying.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A recent article highlighted what some call agri-hoods where people are trying to live an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/california-orange-county-rancho-mission-viejo-agrihood-2017-11\">agriculture life in the outer suburbs<\/a>. Yes, they are going to grow their own food. Of course this won&#8217;t work. Estimates differ, but you need two to ten acres of good land per person to grow your own food. So, this will fail, BUT you may learn a few things a teach a few things. Those are pretty good side benefits.<\/p>\n<p>Got great ideas of things to do? Most will not work. Here are some that won&#8217;t:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>write a novel<\/li>\n<li>write a screenplay<\/li>\n<li>write a play<\/li>\n<li>build a house<\/li>\n<li>build a car<\/li>\n<li>paint portraits<\/li>\n<li>It is easy to continue the list.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Then we go back to the first paragraph, BUT there are many things we can learn and teach that flow from the attempt. So, attempt it and keep your notice-er in full gear and learn and teach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips There are a long list of things we could try that would not work, but there may be side benefits for trying. A recent article highlighted what some call agri-hoods where people are trying to live an agriculture life in the outer suburbs. Yes, they are going to grow their own food. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,284,6],"tags":[142,285,129],"class_list":["post-2568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-learning","category-notice","category-observation","tag-learning","tag-notice","tag-observation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2568"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2569,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2568\/revisions\/2569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}