Farmer Andy is back at work again preparing for the spring planting in our organic backyard garden.

After we bought our house in Birmingham last spring we rushed to get a garden planted before it was too late. I was so busy renovating and painting the inside of the house that I didn’t have time to build frames for the raised bed garden Ellen and I were planning for the back yard. We just piled the new soil on top of the grass and started planting. (more…)

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Welcome back food-growing backyard gardeners. This is the second part of my review of the Food 4 Wealth system of ecological gardening.

When you receive your copy of Food 4 Wealth, you get a download link to several videos that help develop certain aspects of the system, like (more…)

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