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Planting A Vegetable Garden

empty raised beds I spent Earth Day afternoon weeding a small patch of a local public park as my monthly rent for access to a 14' x 14' area of a local community garden. Fair trade, I think.

I went looking for a community garden near my home in January and feel lucky there was space left. With a cost of $20 and the promise to maintain an area of the park that the community garden is located in seemed like just what I was looking for. My gardening skills are rusty and I am sort of out of shape so my new vegetable garden includes the promise of a balanced amount of exercise too.

Perpetual Garden Planner

garden planner The most intimidating aspect of starting a garden is how to go about assembling the information necessary to know what to grow and how much to plant. The inexperienced gardener needs to know what things need to be done each week, when to expect food to be ready for harvest and when to start a new batch of a particular crop. This Perpetual Garden Planner directly addresses all of these issues. Spending a little time with this planner will make it very simple to tell at a glance what to expect in your garden every week of the year.

3 Easiest Foods To Produce At Home Without A Garden

So what do I mean by "foods to produce at home"? These are the foods that you can create with locally-sourced ingredients with a minimal amount of time and effort. These are the foods that in earlier times were always created at home with local ingredients (there wasn't much choice) but have slowly become someone else's job and many times are shipped from hundreds, even thousands of miles away.

If you don't want to tackle these food production projects, keep in mind that almost all of these items should be available to you from local food makers and growers. Make an effort to seek them out.

Best Alternatives For Sustainable Foods

So let's say you will be buying food items from outside your area - that you will not be trying to source every item in your refrigerator, pantry and freezer from your garden or within 100 miles of your home. Maybe you would like to know what would be the best options for these items, in terms of economic and environmental impact. Wouldn't it be nice if there was a single set of terms that would let you know on a scale of good, better, best what your choices should be and why?

Here is a rundown of your options, from best to good, based on the opinions of most food organizations. Working from top to bottom, you should be able to find best choices for many of the foods your household currently uses.