Urban people's pastoral dreams: rented blocks, plant some food, be a happy farmer

"China Economic Weekly" reporter Xiao Yan | Beijing Photography Report

The epidemic has made many people the idea of ​​planting vegetables. In order to realize the "safety on the tip of the tongue" and the desire to retrieve the "childhood taste", urban farming has become a new way of leisure.

Sowing, weeding, picking, and eating the dishes that you plant are slowly slowed down. When we know where the food comes from, we cherish the food on the plate.

【Shared Vegetable Garden】

There is a pastoral dream in the hearts of every city. Green surrounding, bird language. After quitting the lawyer's work, Orange devoted himself to his love of natural education.

In 2019, orange and several cities' families rented out of the land in Shunyi, and met with the natural rhythm to start farming every weekend.

There are designers, engineers, trainers, programmers, and doctors. Every week, they look forward to the farm work in the ground, sweat, and leave the hustle and bustle of the city, and be a simple and happy farmer.

In the Yuyu season, they discussed the planting plan, divided the responsibility fields, and watched the apricot flower peach blossoms with colorful gardens. Small Manchu is here, pulling grass, digging wild vegetables, and experienced the delicious fields in the fields. In the autumnal equinox, digging peanuts, digging sweet potatoes, and tasted the fruits of labor. Cream drop, plant winter wheat, collect big cabbage, prepare for winter. In the winter solstice, taste the taste of the year together, the winter solstice dumplings, and sing the nine songs.

They turned the crops of the labor into food, put on the table, and experienced the whole process of food from the land to the table. Children with adults and adults can learn to know plant and insects.

【5 square meter vegetable garden】

In 2019, Nana, who resigned from the Internet factory, has planted in the yard in the suburbs of Beijing for three years. At the beginning, the grass in the ground was higher than that of vegetables. Occasionally, a few beans were harvested, and they needed to buy half a catty in the market in order to make up a plate of dishes.

Until this summer, Nana's 5 -square -meter small vegetable garden can provide a plate of perilla fried cucumber steadily every day. At the end of June, amaranth, rapeseed, lettuce, and corn are also growing up.

The experience of growing vegetables for a long time has made her more frugal and more environmentally friendly. Feeling that it is not easy for one vegetable and one fruit to come, she will estimate the amount in advance for cooking, and it will never be wasted. The water used for cooking will also be used to pour vegetables.

Planting in cities is not just for harvest, but a lifestyle. This lifestyle is about beauty, the experience of life, and the relationship between people and nature. Now, she is very low and rich in her heart, and her quality of life is higher.

[Biomotive farming around you]

Zhang Li chose to become urban farmers, hoping to build a farm without using pesticide fertilizer farming.

Zhang Li regards the entire farm as an organic body. Humans, plants, animals, houses, etc. are part of the entire farm ecosystem. Every species around you has its meaning and purpose.

After practicing biological power farming, Zhang Li is not confronting the external environment of his place, no longer constantly kills insects and weeding, but to allow insects and weeds to serve the farm in his own way. He feels that people need to understand how to produce food, food, and vegetables. They are part of the life of the earth, and people are not going to defeat the life on the earth.

"Healthy foods start with healthy soil. We are actually farming soils, not planting plants." Zhang Li's biological power farming practice is working hard to protect future children's clean water, soil, and air.

(Orange, Nana, Zhang Li in the text)

Responsible editor | Yang Lin

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