Brb, running off to become a farmer

[areyououtthere]

Urban gardening workshop at Common Good City Farm this weekend. Simultaneously energizing and exciting (I inoculated coffee grounds with mushroom spores! And sawed off part of a board for a raised bed! And helped to sheet mulch an entire bed--now it looks like it's been there for years, even though the soil has a ways to go!) and totally

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[annawheatlie]

plus then you won't have to pay for veggies, and you'll save so much money you won't need a job ;)

garlic!

[uptotherafters]

multi-acre farming is insanely tough, work every day from 5 am - 7 pm for no money all spring, summer, and fall. urban gardening/farming seems a lot more humane to me, aside from the urban heat thing (http://www.epa.gov/heatisld/).

you can plant garlic well into december, provided there's no snowmageddon (a little bit of snow is ok if you can dig through it). hardneck varieties would be my recommendation, because softneck are terrible to harvest.

(adventure in softneck garlic picking: you pull on the garlic stalk above ground, and it tears right off from the bulb. you spend time attempting to pitchfork the garlic bulb out of the soil. inevitably, you spear at least a few heads right through the middle. and this happens again, and again. it happens with hardneck varieties too, especially in the rain, but less often.)

we can talk more when you come visit!