Growing your own food during the pandemic

Amid the pandemic, people from all over are growing their own foods.

Even living in the middle of a big city, it's possible, and rewarding.

ARE GROWING THEIR OWN FOOD.SCRIPPS REPORTER LINDSEYBOETSCH SHOWS US HOW IT'SDONE...EVEN WHEN YOU LIVE IN A CITY.SOT: SHARONA CLIP 001 :29 WEARE 50X126 FT IN THENEIGHBORHOOD OF RUBY HILL.LESS THAN 5 MILES FROM DOWNTOWNDENVER, COLORADO, NESTLED AMONGSTANDARD CITY LOTS, SITS SHARONTHOMPSON'S URBAN HOMESTEAD ANDTHE RUBY HILL TINY FARM SCHOOL.SOT: SHARONA CLIP 001 1:38 WEGROW TOMATOES, SQUASH, WE'VEGOT PUMPKINS ARCHING OVER,WE'VE GOT CHICKENS, WE'VE GOTRABBITS, WE HAVE BEES, WE HAVEWORMS, AND A CAT THAT GUARDSTHE WHOLE SCHOOL.EVERY INCH OF HER YARD ISPLANNED OUT TO BE THE MOSTBENEFICIAL AND SUSTAINABLE.SHE HAS TWO 55 GALLON RAINBARRELS THAT SHE USES TO WATERTHE PLANTS, AND SHE ALSOCAPTURES RAIN WATER FROM HERROOF.SOT: SHARONA CLIP 004 WE HAVEIT GO DOWN THE GUTTER, INTOTHIS LITTLE PIPING SYSTEM.THAT GOES UNDER THE GROUND, THESIDEWALK, UNDER THIS BED ANDCOMES OUT TO THE TOMATOES OVERHERE.EVEN THE HOUSING FOR HERCHICKENS HAS MULTIPLE USES.THE COOP CATCHES RAIN WATERWHICH LEADS TO A CHERRY TREE.AND SINCE THE CHICKENS ARE ONLY3 FEET TALL, SHE BUILT A GREENHOUSE ON ONE SIDE FOR MEDICINALPLANTS FOR HOME REMEDIES,ALLOWING THE CHICKENS TO ROAMUNDERNEATH.SOT: SHARONA CLIP 001 14:23WITH CHICKENS, THEY GIVE USEGGS, BUT ALSO THEY GIVE USMANURE, AND WE CAN ACTUALLYTURN THAT MANURE INTO THE SOILESPECIALLY NOW WITH COVID, MOREAND MORE PEOPLE ARE PLANTING ONTHEIR OWN LAND.SOMETIMES WE NEED A CRISIS TOKIND OF WAKE US UP TO BE ACTIVEAND TO REALLY SEE WHERE SOME OFOUR VULNERABILITIES ARE.SHE SAYS WHILE WE'RE NOT IN AFOOD EMERGENCY RIGHT NOW, SHEFEELS SECURE KNOWING SHE COULDLIVE OFF HER YIELD.SOT: SHARONA CLIP 001 7:51 IFTHERE WAS A FOOD SUPPLY CHAINBUT THERE'S ALSO A SENSE OFPRIDE IN HER TINY FARM - DOINGSOMETHING OUR ANCESTORS DIDMANY GENERATIONS AGO.SOT: SHARONA CLIP 001 16:02 SO,WHEN I GO OUT HERE AND I SEETHE PLANTS GROWING AND CHANGINGFROM WINTER TO THE END OFSUMMER, I FEEL SO SATISFIED ONA DEEPER LEVEL THAT I KNOW HOWTO DO THIS.THROUGH HER TINY FARM SCHOOL,SHE TEACHES KIDS AND ADULTS HOWTO START AND BUILD THEIR OWNURBAN HOMESTEAD.SOT: SHARONA CLIP 001 16:15WHEN I BRING STUDENTS HERE ANDTHEY LEARN, IT'S BEAUTIFUL.THEY ARE LIKE I WANT TO DOSOMETHING LIKE THIS.I'VE HAD SEVERAL PEOPLE SAYTHAT THEY WANT TO START SCHOOLSTOO TO SHARE THIS INFORMATION,IT'S EMPOWERING.IN DENVER I'M LINDSEY BOETSCH.WE HAVE SPECIFIC ADVICE ONFINDING A JOB, MAKING ENDS