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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Ellen, here (AKA Mrs. Go-To Guy!). While we get our photos and thoughts together for posts on the house renovation, I’ve been wanting to tell y’all about the exciting things were doing to grow ourselves some fresh food with a backyard garden.

Ever since we decided to move here to Alabama, nearly two years now, I’ve been daydreaming about putting in our very first fresh food garden, and researching different approaches. (more…)

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