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# Monday
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/32527/
- Published: 2014-05-05T07:02:56.000Z
- Updated: 2014-05-05T07:02:56.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: Miscellaneous, #wpChunk

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/ea/fd/eafdb338-c9b6-4f87-8363-78ab94cc3a18/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/vegetable-garden-300x224.jpg "vegetable garden")

The "mini-agricultural" movements that are popping up in this country interest me. Whether it's the Back to Eden gardening method, hobby farms, sustainable landscaping, or just nerds like me with a big container garden (60+ self-watering containers, plus a handful of traditional containers), it's edifying to see people get their hands back into the soil, living manually a bit like monks, even if we don't live like them in other areas of our lives (last Friday, I spent four hours in the garden while listening to a former atheist describe his conversion to Catholicism (*The Journey Home*) and BBC podcasts about the revolutions of 1848 and Neoplatonism . . . that's good multi-tasking, but it's not exactly monastic).

The latest mini-ag movement I've read about?

[Forest gardening](http://m.lacrossetribune.com/news/local/man-promotes-back-to-nature-approach-of-forest-gardening/article%5F77a400d8-cf20-11e2-a546-0019bb2963f4.html?mobile%5Ftouch=true&ref=thedailyeudemon.com).

It's pretty much exactly what you'd think: Grow stuff in the forest instead of the open fields. Of course, most fruits and vegetables need a lot of sun, so you'll have to grow different foodstuffs (for a list, go [here](http://www.agroforestry.co.uk/plantorders.html?ref=thedailyeudemon.com)), but after you get past that inconvenience, it's supposedly pretty easy.

I doubt I'll pursue it, but if it's something you're interested in, you may want to check out this [site](http://www.edibleforestgardens.com/about%5Fgardening?ref=thedailyeudemon.com).