Getting to know you
My mother and sister live in town, but manage
to grow quite a bit of food in their backyard. Maggie (my sister)
sent me this photo today showing some of the peppers and tomatoes they
harvested just before their first frost.
There's been a lot of talk lately (or maybe I've just started to
listen)
about urban gardening --- in the article I read this morning, Michael
Pollan wrote about ripping out part of the White House lawn to grow
organic veggies; the Freedom Gardens
website brings the idea of the victory garden into the twenty first
century; and urban homesteading has suddenly become a household word
thanks to Kelly Coyne and Erik Knutzen's book The
Urban Homestead: Your Guide to Self-sufficient Living in the Heart of
the City
So, in the spirit of learning more about people who don't happen to
have 58 acres to grow in, I thought I'd put together a little poll....
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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