I love gardening year round with my Tower Gardens! Fresh greens for my smoothies, and lettuces & herbs for salads, and the produce in the summer! Just like with meat products, I like to know where my food comes from! lisaescaffi.towergarden.com
I like seeds from Johnny Seeds and sprouts from ATL Urban Farms in Atlanta, GA
What an inspiring post! I just moved from Baltimore, where I (mostly) container gardened but still managed to get lettuces, spinach, herbs, blueberries, and cranberries (yes!) to a multi-acre spread in the country. There, I intend to farm veggies and herbs (starting an herb growing 10-month course now) and flowers to increase pollinators. My new idea of fun is reading seed catalogues. Thanks for this--great way to start my morning. Peace...
Thank You, this is amazing! so many great points!!!!!!
🌼FOOD IS MEDICINE🌼
for the past two years started to eat more fresh fruit & vegetables (some from my garden) and totally eliminated vaccines. for the first year in decades, NO INFLAMMATION in my wrists after intense gardening!!!!!!
I'm going to try and channel you in the spring, Gavin. :) I will come back to this article later in the winter. To be honest, fall and winter are my favorite seasons, and even more so since I moved to New Hampshire. I'm dreading "Bug Season" - esp. the ticks, black flies and deer flies.May - mid August. They are just ridiculous. I am going to have to rethink where I planted my vegetable garden. I had to mow a little around the house (the rest of the hill/land is all left wild) because the ticks were waiting for me at my door. :( It really did help tremendously. But, I've been composting for many years - even when I lived in NYC. I would take my compost on the train to the farmer's market and then I had a worm bin. I love being able to just throw it on the pile here. :) Thx for the great information and pep talk!
This is a fantastic summary of practically everything I feel like I’ve failed to articulate to my friends and family over the past decade or so. And also the second time this week that I’ve seen someone mention a book that’s been sitting unread on my shelf (Braiding Sweetgrass), so I will definitely be making time for that this month.
Re: point #4 — in my house, the room with the best light is kind of a 3-season enclosed porch, but I’ve mostly had decent results starting seedlings indoors with a heat mat but no lights. Some arugula in one window, soaking some sugar snap peas to plant today. However, I have consistently failed to grow healthy peppers from seed— the last time I had a good crop was in a rental plot in a community garden when I lived in the city. (I’m starting a new plot further uphill this year and letting the old one go fallow/fill in with perennials.) I’ve also failed to grow mushrooms on coffee grounds, though I was successful at expanding some of the leftover spawn onto fresh sawdust after inoculating some logs a few years ago. (Hoping to do more of this, as well as maybe trying indoor cultivation again.)
Tulsi and chamomile have been reliable self-sowers for about 3 years at a time in my experience, then I have to buy new seeds. I’m always disappointed by borage, though.
This could be a small book. So much information that I'm feeling overwhelmed. Guess I'll start by ordering seeds. I haven't started saving my own yet; something else to learn. I need a system.
Always wondered how (especially) the very big bees fly...levitation is the only thing that makes 'sense'.....effing cool.
What a lovely read!
Nice synopsis. Will link.
yummy and beautiful, this is the way ahead. Respect & X 2 All
I love gardening year round with my Tower Gardens! Fresh greens for my smoothies, and lettuces & herbs for salads, and the produce in the summer! Just like with meat products, I like to know where my food comes from! lisaescaffi.towergarden.com
I like seeds from Johnny Seeds and sprouts from ATL Urban Farms in Atlanta, GA
Wow❣️ Amazing article! Thank you😊
Great article...we will be linking back to this on our GMO Tuesday production this week!!!
What an inspiring post! I just moved from Baltimore, where I (mostly) container gardened but still managed to get lettuces, spinach, herbs, blueberries, and cranberries (yes!) to a multi-acre spread in the country. There, I intend to farm veggies and herbs (starting an herb growing 10-month course now) and flowers to increase pollinators. My new idea of fun is reading seed catalogues. Thanks for this--great way to start my morning. Peace...
Where can I buy seeds?
Thank You, this is amazing! so many great points!!!!!!
🌼FOOD IS MEDICINE🌼
for the past two years started to eat more fresh fruit & vegetables (some from my garden) and totally eliminated vaccines. for the first year in decades, NO INFLAMMATION in my wrists after intense gardening!!!!!!
I'm going to try and channel you in the spring, Gavin. :) I will come back to this article later in the winter. To be honest, fall and winter are my favorite seasons, and even more so since I moved to New Hampshire. I'm dreading "Bug Season" - esp. the ticks, black flies and deer flies.May - mid August. They are just ridiculous. I am going to have to rethink where I planted my vegetable garden. I had to mow a little around the house (the rest of the hill/land is all left wild) because the ticks were waiting for me at my door. :( It really did help tremendously. But, I've been composting for many years - even when I lived in NYC. I would take my compost on the train to the farmer's market and then I had a worm bin. I love being able to just throw it on the pile here. :) Thx for the great information and pep talk!
This is a fantastic summary of practically everything I feel like I’ve failed to articulate to my friends and family over the past decade or so. And also the second time this week that I’ve seen someone mention a book that’s been sitting unread on my shelf (Braiding Sweetgrass), so I will definitely be making time for that this month.
Re: point #4 — in my house, the room with the best light is kind of a 3-season enclosed porch, but I’ve mostly had decent results starting seedlings indoors with a heat mat but no lights. Some arugula in one window, soaking some sugar snap peas to plant today. However, I have consistently failed to grow healthy peppers from seed— the last time I had a good crop was in a rental plot in a community garden when I lived in the city. (I’m starting a new plot further uphill this year and letting the old one go fallow/fill in with perennials.) I’ve also failed to grow mushrooms on coffee grounds, though I was successful at expanding some of the leftover spawn onto fresh sawdust after inoculating some logs a few years ago. (Hoping to do more of this, as well as maybe trying indoor cultivation again.)
Tulsi and chamomile have been reliable self-sowers for about 3 years at a time in my experience, then I have to buy new seeds. I’m always disappointed by borage, though.
This could be a small book. So much information that I'm feeling overwhelmed. Guess I'll start by ordering seeds. I haven't started saving my own yet; something else to learn. I need a system.