Life Happens

[prayergardens]

 

So it looks like it's been January since I posted. I still have come by to read so I feel like I'm up to date on you all!

A few random things from the last year: 

• Garden has been hit or miss. Drought then unstopping rain. No squashes. Lot of pepperocini peppers. The future is spicy!
  
• Got super into Charles Dowding (No Dig Gardening) and got better at gardening, better multi-sowing, better at succession planning. I was already no dig in my garden but this took it up a level. Started weighing my harvests so I can track my progress over the future years.
  
• Found No Dig/Flower farming podcasts and grew my first cut flower garden. This is now a thing for me and I will never stop. I love it.
  
• Entered veg and flowers for the first time in the local county fair and won blue ribbons!
  

Overall, family is well. All employed and in schools we're happy with.  The next phase is we want to move out of the city (2021 still hurts) and into the outer suburbs where we can have a bigger place (more gardens! More chickens!).  We'll never be self sufficient homesteaders but we have the skills to do more if we had more space. Thanks to my podcast learning and some trials this season, I'm pretty sure I can make and manage a small no-dig market garden on just an acre or two as the next step in our step-down plan.
Best to you all!


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