Just Started Gardening

I am often discouraged because of my line of work. As a graphic designer I have this thought that if society collapsed over night I would have few skills to contribute to a new career. This was part of why I wanted to start learning to grow food. I took an area of land in the back and I have been working on it. I have tomatoes, peppers and onions in so far. Hopefully we will have more in this week and over the weekend.

I am starting this to learn. I hope I can make some money and feed myself with it, but also I am wanting to learn how to do this. People will always need food, so farmers will always have a place in society.

I have made a few mistakes and learned a few things already. Growing up mostly in Cleveland Ohio and living in mostly urban environments my whole life has led to me really not knowing much about this kind of thing. I am entering into a whole new world and I am loving it so far.

To plant in the ground I had to remove the grass that was already there. I tried to rent a sod cutter, but had no truck to transport it so I started to go at it by hand. We managed to get enough up to plant the onions after about two hours of work. I am still needing to remove more sod, so we will still be looking out for a truck.

I would like to see how much I can plant in this area. I am hoping to go out and buy a few more seedlings this weekend. So far we have some more peppers, tomatoes, cantaloupe, eggplant, onions and cucumbers. It’s nice to have the internet at my fingers so I can just look stuff up when I have questions.

Here I go, Farmer Shane and his little anarchist farm. I’ll try to get some pictures posted here in the next few weeks.