#Garden Map: Take 1

I worked on this throughout the winter, and here it is: the draft of the garden map. The whole left side of the screen is our community garden space (20'x40') and the small beds in the middle right are the beds at the house. The squares with circles in them are all things being planted in pots. I already know there will be some changes, since we just planted the favas and lentils on Saturday and wanted to plant more than originally planned, bumping the golden amaranth. Maybe I can post a picture of my lego garden plan next...

Click for a closer view :)

When planning your garden map, consider Ivette Soler's book The Edible Front Yard. I've mentioned it before, but it is worth repeating!

A Year Without Posts & a Spring Without Bees

It has been a year since I last posted to this blog, in part because I had started another one during our house-building and move to a small plot of land in NW Montana. However, life took a few odd turns and, despite just finishing our little house and loving the land we were on, I was offered a really good job that I really wanted. As a result, we moved 300 miles to the middle of Montana. I am still in the library world, but some of our homesteading efforts are temporarily on hold while we work out what it means to be living in a small city instead of a tiny town. Our bees and chickens were adopted by friends since we did not have suitable living arrangements for them. However, we have made the best of it and are still brewing, growing mushrooms, making things from scratch, and growing as large a garden as we can on our small space. I am hoping to get back to having some small livestock next year. In the meantime??? I must read, read, read. I will come back to this blog and share resources as well as our slightly more urban homesteading methods.

This book is a good indicator of where we are at at the moment:

The Edible Front Yard by Ivette Soler