In this post at Throwback at Trapper Creek, the author details how to reverse engineer a garden for food storage. She’s really got this down to a science. I do a similar thing each January, but I can’t explain it nearly as well. Of course, my plans are just for “play,” and after I write it all out, I throw it away and start again for the dozen containers on my back patio.

Even though food gardens are on the rise, due to frequent contamination warnings, the economy and the “back to the land” movement hitting even urban dwellers, my own garden plans are still small.

This would be a perfect time in our lives to invest serious sweat equity in a large food garden. I have teens to help with the heavy work, young children to learn valuable lessons from the land, more than ample biomass to have a killer compost pile and worm garden. Growing food would be such a better use of the small lot on which our house sits than growing grass. I could also stand to lose a pound or two with the exercise a garden would require.

But, for now anyway, I’m looking at one more season of container gardening, providing what I can for my family without tearing up large chunks of sod in the yard, and dreaming.

Another e-friend, Jenna, has created a Facebook group called Barnheart. I’m a sufferer of Barnheart.

The symptoms are mild at first. You start glancing around the internet at homesteading forums and cheese making supply shops on your lunch break…

Her post is beautiful, poetry to my soul and worth a read for anyone who drools over seed catalogs or the Lehman’s site. “Someday,” I tell myself.

I hope you enjoy any or all of these links and think about maybe growing some of your own this year. It’s not to early to plan!

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