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.
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.