We want to grow the food that we eat.
We are not expert gardeners. More specifically, we are totally dumbfounded and completely mystified at the idea of growing our own food. We are three twenty-something city-dwellers and a high-schooler that have, collectively, zero days of cultivating experience. Our venture into urban gardening started last week when we bought a small mint plant. Then we decided to go bigger. People have been growing their own food for ages and ages. Can it really be that hard? But we have found ourselves asking questions like, “How do you put a seed in the ground?” and “Do the plants die and have to be re-planted from scratch every year?” We are clueless. We are also determined. We want to participate in this green revolution we see developing around us, in ways beyond reusable grocery bags and recycled water bottles and turning the lights off when we leave a room. So, we will turn our yard in South Miami into an urban garden.
Maybe you want to do the same thing where you live. Better yet, maybe you've already started. Either way, we will keep this blog updated with our experiences. Hopefully we will soon be able to answer some of our own questions: What does it feel like to work the dirt with our own two (or eight) hands? What is it like to watch the transformation from a seed to a plant to a fruit or vegetable and then into breakfast, lunch, or dinner? Will our homegrown food taste better than food from a grocery store? As we try different things and undoubtedly fail before succeeding, maybe we will even be able to answer questions that you may have.
We have some big ideas and some lofty aspirations, but we know that we must start small.
Step One: start blog!
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