My Homestead Resolution Is:
To eat fruits and veggies ENTIRELY from our property, for a full month (likely over the summer).
There are several reasons to do this.
*To make sure we're growing the right things - the best garden is garden you're willing to consume!
*To maximize our ROI, the return on investment. We've put money, time, energy into cultivating spaces that will nourish us. We've already reaped the reward of exercise from taking care of the garden. We get vitamin D from being out on the sunshine. We connect in harmony with nature when our feet touch the earth, when our hands are covered with soil. Now put all that work back in your damned mouth!
*To encourage creativity with meals. We won't be able to grow the assortment that the grocer or farmer's market will offer (at least not immediately) so we'll learn how to make thirteen meals out of squash, versus just the three we might fall back to because they're easy or familiar.
*This will also kick me in the butt to put more work into the compost pile!
So yeah, once we pick a month, progress and updates will be posted here - yay, so exciting!!!!
I look forward to seeing your submissions!
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