The Raw Foodist's Garden
This week a package of seeds arrived, sent by my new friend Liz, of hyperlocavore.com. Boy, are we excited! While my friends are not into raw foods, I'm envisioning subsidizing a large portion of my raw diet with foods I grow in the back yard. I look forward to sharing our crops with family and neighbors as well.
So, what do we have here?
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Now, there are foods we want to try growing that weren't part of this mix, so we'll be spending some money to get seeds or starter plants for the following:
- Avocado
- Carrots
- Cucumbers
- Parsley
- Potatoes
- Romaine lettuce
- Rosemary
- Scallions
- Strawberries
I'm excited about making compost for the first time. I will be using the pulp produced by my juicer - a colorful addition indeed, as you can see from the photograph. If I were to stay in Ohio throughout the winter and continue eating mostly raw, we would certainly have great compost by next growing season. This year my friends already have a compost pile out back, but they have not been keeping up with it. We will probably end up buying compost or buy Mel's Mix (Mel, the Square Food Gardening guru).
Well, that's it for now. I should be on my way to beautiful Ohio in a week or two. I'm looking forward to the project and to seeing my old friends and my family again, but I'm not looking forward to the thunderstorms and tornadoes. Or the spiders. Or the clouds of mosquitos and centipedes hanging off of trees... Guess I'd better get used to these things again if I'm going to become a gardener.
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