Humble Beginings

So this is our borrowed garden space. Our yard is in the process of being dug up so my mother-in-law generously offered us some space big thanks to her because I'm not sure who was going to crack first, me or DH. I can see it now, "Mother and Father of 6, picked up by police for trespassing in a neighbors garden. Mother told police 'I only wanted to touch the tomato plants. I wasn't going to steal them. I just wanted to make sure they were staked right and had plenty of water'. Father was found hoeing between the rows, saying, 'well I notice there was some bad weeds growing there and I just had to do something. I mean really what kind of person would allow that? I'm not a hero, just a simple man trying to save one garden at a time'. "

So we now have green onions, radishes, kohlrabi, beets, tomato plants, zucchini's, cucumbers,and bush beans. Ah now that itch is scratched I can't wait to see how thing grow.

Vermicomposting: Composting with worms

So I found this great beginers link to worm composting our kitchen scraps.
http://lancaster.unl.edu/pest/resources/vermicompost107.shtml
Getting Started:
1. a container
2. bedding
3. water
4. worms
5. nonfatty kitchen scraps
Very simply put but detailed info on diffenrnt contains and how to know what's right for you and your family or situation. Different kinds of bedding. What kind of worms and why ect., ect.
So we'll see if I can add this to my homesteading adventure.

Anyways

This poem was found on the wall of Mother Teresa's children's hospital in Calcutta. It was written by Kent Keith and inspired by Mother Teresa.


People are often unreasonable; illogical, and self centered;
Forgive them anyway.

If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives;
Be kind anyway.

If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies;
Succeed anyway.

If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you;
Be honest and frank anyway.

What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight;
Build anyway.

If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous;
Be happy anyway.

The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow;
Do good anyway.

Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough;
Give the world the best you've got anyway.

You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and God;
It was never between you and them.