Rejected cucumbers having been hauled to the packing plant were then hauled to feed creatures being raised for market or returned to farmland to be plowed back under. And imagine how many are involved with packaging and labeling the seeds, making and selling and servicing the equipment, assessing land and collecting wages, handling money at all stages of the process. Veganomics can make the producer to consumer steps in the process safer, more efficient, possibly lower in cost and permanently sustainable. The IPBN Site One Demonstration Garden Project occupies 100 square feet of level ground, a five by twenty foot plot formerly covered by weeds and junk. It faces southwest in a niche surrounded by stone walls on north and east and a chain link fence on the west.
Entry is through the open space on the south.
The stone walls are the foundation of a row house in a low income neighborhood, they were erected in 1888. Thirty-two different vegetables are planted in four identical raised planting beds. In the one foot wide pathway between the beds are seventeen herb plants in seven inch plastic pots. Screws and corner blocks hold the boxes - beds together and they may be easily disassembled or moved intact to other sites. Bio-intensive and interplanting horticulture has diverse plants in close proximity, with some primarily growing up and some down, in mineral and organic material rich soil.