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— GILDA (1946)
by nazzal studio, comprised of 10,000 Palestinian coins hand sewn by refugee women.
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Im going to hold your hand when I say this. It is not realistic to expect yourself or your family to be able to survive solely off of food you have foraged or grown in a garden. People with more knowledge and experience have tried and failed. What do you think happened to all of those communes in the 60s? Most of them failed. Famine and malnutrition have been constant companions to humanity until industrialized farming and food supply lines came along.
It feels like a uniquely American capitalist take to assume these traditions will make you completely self sufficient. You need a lot of people, a lot of time, a lot of knowledge across a lot of subjects, and a lot of luck to provide for everyone's nutritional needs.
So should you even bother trying to be more self sufficient with your food? I argue yes. Foraging and gardening are fun and will teach you so much about many things. They are deeply rewarding activities that can supplement your diet. There are herbs I haven't bought in years because I grow my own. There are dishes I can only make with foraged ingredients because I can't get them in stores.
You may not have the power to do everything, but that doesn't mean your efforts are wasted. Getting 5% of your nutritional needs from food you have grown or foraged, even for a season, is a massive accomplishment.
Agreed, you can't be self-sufficient! But you can save a ton of money by gardening! This was my job for ten years - I worked in schools, food banks, and food pantries, teaching people how to grow food inexpensively and get the most bang for their buck.
Buy the cheap stuff - like grains, starchy tubers, and legumes - and grow the expensive stuff, for example:
herbs (mint family always in pots, never in the ground)
garlic, shallots, green onions
ginger (in pots, overwinter indoors)
lettuce, spinach, chard, arugula, kale, and other greens
tomatoes, peppers, eggplant
asparagus
rhubarb
strawberries, blueberries, blackberries, raspberries
tree fruit and nuts (if you have room and time for an orchard)
Even living in an apartment and growing in windows/balcony, I saved maybe 25% of my June-November food budget. Now in a house, with mature fruit trees, eight raised beds, bees, and chickens, I save maybe 50% from June-November and 20% the rest of the year. And meals are way tastier and more nutritious!
(Funny side note: no one I know has bought peppers, hot sauce, or spicy seasonings in years, thanks to what my housemates call my "capsaicin garden" - one whole bed of habaneros and scorpion peppers. Have to cut the grass around that bed by hand b/c if you run the mower over it there's a good chance you'll turn a few fallen peppers into DIY pepper spray.)
Some advice on getting started:
Don't try to do everything at once. Learning the needs of a lot of plants at the same time is overwhelming. Start with a few simple things and expand from there. Which things are simple depends on your local climate as much as on the plant.
Don't invest money that you can not afford to lose on failed crops. Most people's first years are not that great and even an experienced gardener can lose crops due to unexpectedly extreme weather, a really bad bug infestation, etc.
Trees are investments that take a long time to pay off, nut trees especially but any tree can take a few years. So you don't just need space, you also need to be reasonably confident that you will still live in that place when they start getting good.
Make sure you have the time. Plant deceases and pest infestations pop up at unexpected times and can be very time consuming to combat.
Illustrations of garden flowers (Hibiscus, Petunias, Tuberous Begonias, Phlox) taken from McGregor’s Year Book, Floral Gems Spring 1915.
McGregor Bros Co. Springfield Ohio.
U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library.
Biodiversity Heritage Library. archive.org
For anyone wondering, the PhD student's name is Myra Cheng.
Here's a link to an article about the study from the Stanford Report: link.
Across three preregistered studies, participants interacting with sycophantic AI became more convinced of their own rightness and less willing to repair relationships. Yet at the same time, participants rated sycophantic AI models as higher quality, more trustworthy, and more desirable for future use, which may explain why this behavior has persisted despite its harmful impacts.
Myra Cheng et al. "Sycophantic AI decreases prosocial intentions and promotes dependence." Science 391, eaec8352 (2026).
The beautiful carved marble steps leading down to the gallery at the Hotel National des Arts et Metiers in Paris.
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“You are in the embrace of the history” — Deir el-Bahri in Nile West Bank. Luxor, Egypt
“The first written words started here” — Uruk, Iraq (Sumer, Mesopotamia)
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Rita Hayworth , 1942. You Were Never Lovelier is a American musical romantic comedy film.
Captured by the Hollywood portrait photographer George Hurrell.