Veganic Gardening in Your Own Backyard
Posted on
May 13, 2020 by
The VRG Blog Editor
One way to know if your produce has been grown in a vegan fashion is to grow it yourself. You may be wondering how to do veganic gardening without using commonly sold fertilizers containing bone meal. Nathaniel Corn’s previous Vegetarian Journal article “Veganic Gardening” offers useful information. See: https://www.vrg.org/journal/vj2016issue3/2016_issue3_veganic_gardening.php
This is a good article; you could have simply pasted it, instead of the link, below the intro.
I am a fan of veganic agriculture. I use corn gluten, maybe not as ideal as what the article specifies, for nitrogen, but it was the easiest for me to acquire. One bag has lasted me three years, so far.
I am also using Mel’s Mix, from the square foot gardening guru. I make my own, using compost, peat and vermiculite (which is the common mineral mica that has been modified under heat and pressure and humidity, I think). Anyways, I learned after that peat bogs take hundreds of years to regenerate, so I am making my peat moss go a long way. Both these latter ingredients help retain moisture, and the vermiculite slowly releases nutrients into the soil.
I think everyone, even without a garden, can veganic garden; you can simply sprout lentils (about 24 hours in warm temperatures) and other sprouts. Super healthy; it may not be all the calories you need, of course, but it helps! Plus, it is fun to watch stuff you plant grow!