What Is A Farm?
Helping people grow their own food at all different scales
More of my friends were gardening this summer than ever before!
I found it ironic that we'd mostly only talk to each other over the internet, but most of our conversations were about plants. I spent hours FaceTiming with friends from our respective gardens, trading tips and showing off our yields.
Later in the summer I visited a few people for in-person farm/garden tours, and I knew some of my friends would be interested in seeing those too, so naturally I recorded videos!
As I got into my third season of gardening, I realized I had been posting a lot of garden content to my personal instagram account. I had some friends who really liked it, and others... not so much!
So, I decided to split the gardening-related stuff into its own account. The name comes from an inside joke that I'll explain someday...
I knew I wanted to expand my garden this year, and I thought a raised bed made more sense than adding dozens more 5-gallon containers. (Spoiler: I'd eventually do both!)
I really wanted to make use of a bunch of fallen tree limbs from around my yard, rather than buying all the wood. I wound up with a somewhat unique design that looks pretty cool, and some advantages and some disadvantages over more traditional approaches.
If I were doing it all over again, there are things I would definitely do differently. I could have benefitted greatly from talking to some more experienced people first!
I had been putting this off for years, but a chance conversation at a pub the night before lit the fire under my butt to get started. (Someday I'll write up that full story... I think it's pretty funny!)
I knew it was already late in the season, so I went to the closest garden supply center and asked for help picking the vegetable plants that I'd most likely be able to get results from. I left with 3 tomato plants (Big Boy Burpees), 3 pepper plants (Purple Beauties!), and enough compost and loam to fill six 5-gallon buckets.
I got hooked, and I've been expanding my garden ever since!
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