2 years ago I did not know what “eating seasonally” meant. I was having a health crisis, a mental crisis, and trying to juggle so many things at once. As I learned to slow down my day-to-day life with elements such as gardening, starting my mornings outdoors, and seasonal eating; my life started to take a turn for the better. For the first time in a very long time, might I add.
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I find in humorous that my last post stated we underestimated the work load and as I follow up with this post, we’ve done nothing but add to that situation in an unexpected, yet wanted and welcomed way.
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and we are drowning because of it.
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If I’m being honest, I’m overwhelmed. We have so many things growing in the gardens at this time and so much more left to plant.
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I guess you could say there was a span of several years where I felt as if I were floating in space. I had a plan, but anything outside of that plan left me feeling anxious, uneasy, and on the verge of a break down.
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Lumber prices are through the roof. With everything we are trying to improve around our land (i.e raised beds, fence posts, maybe a house or two), the cost of subpar lumber seemed like a lose, lose situation. So, we bought a saw mill.
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Do you hear it? Do you hear how the sounds of nature are changing as the days become longer and the sun seems to be a little warmer? Spring is almost here which in this house means fresh food is on its way.
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It’s bigger. better, and more challenging than anything I have grown before. I have 2 gardening seasons under my belt during which I was fully committed to the task. However, after 2020…the show must be bigger and more productive. I want to learn the intricacies of growing our own food now while it is still fun before it turns into a method of survival. Well, maybe it is both at this point but it seems much less gloom and doom.
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