You will be hearing about our garden now and again within the posts of this blog. It is closely tied in with our commitment to eat local food. Both of our families had gardens growing up. My family had at least an acre and it provided for most of our produce. My brothers and I did not realize how lucky we were to grow up eating fresh organic produce. Back then we wished we could just buy our food instead of weeding for it. Now we rent land to grow because we love gardening.
My brother cody is the mechanical type. He is six foot seven inches of sunburn and broad shoulders. I am the thinker and tinkerer. I love plants and I am fascinated with how garden and agricultural plants fit into the natural world. It is not unbelievable to see me out in my yard with a flashlight observing worms go about their work with fascination. We make a good team and this project gives us plenty of time to spend together. Our lives revolve around the garden and its cycles.
From the garden we intend to harvest much of what we need this year. Last year we did some canning for the first time since we left the farm that we grew up on. Hopefully we will be ready for the canning mayhem come August when the tomatoes and string beans are overflowing our kitchen.
Today we tilled the soil that will grow our food. With the no-till methods that we plan on using hopefully we will not have to do that again. Even though I regret the vermicidal (worm-death) practice of blending the top soil like a smoothy, it was exciting to break ground. The long winter is over. Three feet of snow has melted and every thing is in bloom. Soon we will be munching on fresh lettuce and sugar snaps.
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