For those of you reading this who know me personally, you know that we are hoping to move our family and critters to a hobby farm inside of 2 years from now, hopefully less. I tell people that I’ve tried lots of things in my Saint Paul yard and that I’ve now outgrown my tiny lab and need a bigger one.

In the interim, in part because I get the comment frequently, “I can’t believe you do all this while you live in the city!”, I’ve decided to bend my blog to something with a little more focus. Exactly how much can my tiny portion of Mother Earth create? While I long to have the ability to do more than I can do while we are here, I’m still proud of what I have accomplished already and I think it would be interesting to showcase that.

So to that end, I’ll post some pictures of where we are now in the wheel of the year as we move into harvest season, and challenge myself both to see how much I can do and create, AND how much I can demonstrate and encourage.

My mom made this ceramic toad years ago and it graces my perennial garden.

 This is my back garden. 2 raised beds, 1 with things rabbits like to eat, and the other with overflow tomato and eggplant seedlings and a few herbs.

These are white currents growing in th front yard, next to the rhubarb and blackberries.

This is the view to the street out front. You can see the pumkins clearly in the begginning of world domonation. I hope we don't loose the mail carrier as she hacks her way thru the jungle 

to deliver our mail.

More of the front garden with: Cleome flowers free seeded for the humming birds, pumkins, zucchini, pear trees, cherry trees, and blackberries.

Front raised beds with: decorative corn, tomatoes, eggplant, peppers, pumpkins.

King of the North grapes growing on the side fence.