Beautiful post here friend, I enjoyed reading how your brain works. I got into gardening maybe 5 years ago and it’s the best decision I’ve ever made. Fermenting and/or canning my produce in particular for long term storage has made me feel so comfy. Have not made the move to get chickens, though it is in future plans
Watch the back to eden documentary on youtube and it may change your life, it changed mine.
Check out Roots and Refuge and go through the older videos about gardening, such a wealth of info.
Look into something called a greenstalk vertical tower. If you have the money to spare, maybe a simple vertical system would be more your thing.
There's a ton of other great gardener channels as well, I can list them if you want. Charles Dowding, Epic Gardening, and Self Sufficient Me are among some of my favorites for education.
My grandparent's generation were the ones to start doing it all wrong, buying the commercial fertilizers, tilling the ground over and over, monocropping, herbicides, pesticides, knew nothing of companion planting.... my dad was even worse, didn't even know how to start his own seeds, poured tons of miracle grow on everything, killed the soil every year. My great grandparents seem to be the cutoff of the generations before the wisdom was lost. They grew an amazing garden effortlessly. He was still tending his garden in his 90's. She was still canning everything. They are my biggest inspiration.
Beautiful post here friend, I enjoyed reading how your brain works. I got into gardening maybe 5 years ago and it’s the best decision I’ve ever made. Fermenting and/or canning my produce in particular for long term storage has made me feel so comfy. Have not made the move to get chickens, though it is in future plans
Watch the back to eden documentary on youtube and it may change your life, it changed mine.
Check out Roots and Refuge and go through the older videos about gardening, such a wealth of info.
Look into something called a greenstalk vertical tower. If you have the money to spare, maybe a simple vertical system would be more your thing.
There's a ton of other great gardener channels as well, I can list them if you want. Charles Dowding, Epic Gardening, and Self Sufficient Me are among some of my favorites for education.
My grandparent's generation were the ones to start doing it all wrong, buying the commercial fertilizers, tilling the ground over and over, monocropping, herbicides, pesticides, knew nothing of companion planting.... my dad was even worse, didn't even know how to start his own seeds, poured tons of miracle grow on everything, killed the soil every year. My great grandparents seem to be the cutoff of the generations before the wisdom was lost. They grew an amazing garden effortlessly. He was still tending his garden in his 90's. She was still canning everything. They are my biggest inspiration.