Here are some posts I’ve made about Square Foot Gardening. This photo from my cell phone is the garden we actually have built in the last few weeks in our spare time. It’s actually become a family hobby and very relaxing. It’s not a business enterprise.
I definitely recommend the UPGRADE book regarding this system of gardening, it’s GREATLY IMPROVED over the old system, mainly because you don’t bother trying to improve your current topsoil at all. In our neck of the woods that would take nearly a decade. You just start from scratch with your own mix that you can create locally. It produces a wonderful growing mixture with no weeds and no headaches.
You can read about this method in Mel Bartholomew’s All New Square Foot Gardening
Personally, we have no plans to SELL anything this year. We did it because of the skyrocketing price of fresh produce due to skyrocketing gasoline prices. But we found out it’s just plain RELAXING on top of everything else and a great FAMILY activity too. If we have extra, we’ll probably just give it away.
In the last few days though, this nationwide Tomato Recall also reminds us that there’ s an increasing push for locally produced food for health reasons as well as fuel pricing regions.
Cheap truck fuel made long distance food production a reality. Rising distribution costs and the concern about food handling is making local agriculture and home gardening make at least a bit of a come back.
Also, this All New Square Foot Gardening
Summary - thought it’d save us money on our grocery bill when combined with Angel Food for staples. Turns out its fun and stress relieving too! If you want to do this to sell produce in the future buy All New Square Foot Gardening before use his other book to sell your produce. The concepts in Cash From Square Foot Gardening as far as marketing are still sound, but you’ll save lots of work using his newer growth methods that avoid using local soil.
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