Today was the first day in a very long while that it has not been colder than a super cold banana, so me and my lovely husband decided to do a little... alternative gardening prep. And when I say 'we' I mean he did all the heavy lifting and I photographed the deeds and looked fabulous.
The idea behind what we worked on today is something that is often referred to as "feral gardening", or the act of using the natural landscape around you to grow your own food (preferably with plants that are indigenous to the area in which you are planting). Mostly this consists of finding pre-existing patches of edibles and carefully maintaining and cultivating that patch so it produces food of better quality than say an un-maintained wild plant. The beauty of this little concept (for those of you planning for impending doom and apocalypses zombie and otherwise) is that how conspicuous your garden is, is completely up to you.
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| Joel. Way happy about soil. |
My husband is always into experimenting with growing plants and he has been hording 5 gallon buckets like a weird bucket hording squirrel, in hopes of making a mobile garden (more on that some other time) as well as putting up little feral gardens all over the place. Today we killed two birds with one stone. We excavated some good ground to start mini feral gardens throughout the woods, and also collected soil to fill the crazy amount of buckets we have.
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| Again... way too excited about soil. |
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| heading home with a 5 gallon bucket of dirt |
The idea behind what we worked on today is something that is often referred to as "feral gardening", or the act of using the natural landscape around you to grow your own food (preferably with plants that are indigenous to the area in which you are planting). Mostly this consists of finding pre-existing patches of edibles and carefully maintaining and cultivating that patch so it produces food of better quality than say an un-maintained wild plant. The beauty of this little concept (for those of you planning for impending doom and apocalypses zombie and otherwise) is that how conspicuous your garden is, is completely up to you.
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