It all started when we, the couple behind this endeavor met. Both of us had a strong interest in "green living". Now we have a decent sized lot in a suburban neighborhood in a middle sized northern California town. What started as a committment to doing the most basic responsible activities like recycling, walking to the store when possible, buying organic and local produce has grown into much more. Each of us, wanted to do more. With the power of two, we put in a series of raised garden beds, planted a wide variety of produce we knew we liked and ate regularly. Our garden grows neary constantly. There is now an active compost system, and just this week we added, thanks to a city ordinance which now allows us to have chickens, two young hatchlings. (More on that later)
We are very excited to share what we have done, and how we are not only saving money, but even brining in some small income from the various things we do. Someday, we'd still love to have some acreage. Rural areas are close by to stay near our family, but would afford the opportunity to do small scale organic farming. Dreams are good to have.
Right now, our lot is a little chunk of Heaven on Earth for us that gets better all the time. Since it is a regular occurance to get a variety of questions on how we make this work for ourselves, it seemed like a great idea to share it here. In another part of my life, I'm a writer. Please enjoy the information shared here and feel free to comment on the content. I love feedback!
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