Food off the grid.

[Atman]

17. Good advice

Last year was our first real garden, and we canned a lot of tomatoes and salsas, as well as some peaches and apples we picked nearby.

This year we really went for it. The weather has been perfect in CT, the plants love it...and are producing far faster than we can keep up with. The canning will start again soon! We've already started pickling the cukes and making cucumber salads and in Vietnamese dishes. My wife spent the winter scouring the Vermont countryside for organic, local seeds and it's paying off. We have Cinderella pumpkins, Jack O' Lanterns, a couple of different watermelons, all sorts of squash, 50 tomato plants of different varieties, every pepper you can imagine, plus a couple huge trellises of green beans. And friendly flowers to keep the bugs away. 100% organic. We even have an artichoke this year, already has three 'choke's on it!