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Hi, I’m Bill. I’m a 58 59 year old resident of Detroit, MI. with family roots that pass through West Virginia on their way to Ireland and Scotland. I’ve been an urban organic gardener for the past 20 years or so.
My “puttering around” in the garden has helped me keep my sanity. Somewhat. It has also helped me feed my family and pass quite a bit of surplus produce along to friends.
At present I have a 240 square foot garden. I’ve never had more than 1,000 square feet … and that was at a time when I had 8 mouths to feed.
We had watermelon for Christmas, ripe tomatoes all winter and fresh lettuce again in February.
Our current garden is tiny by almost any measure, yet there is really no need for it to be any larger. It feeds my wife and I through the summer and provides an excess to can and give away. Home gardens, thoughtfully managed, can be incredibly productive.
I hope you find my writing clear and understandable. If not, please drop me a line using the contact form below.
What is happening to our food supply, once the one thing even the poor could rely on, is nothing less than an absolute outrage. The hobbyist gardener, alongside the professional organic farmer and cropsman, is in a position to change this. Where once my focus was centralized on Detroit, MI, I am now attempting to write for the world as a whole. I’ll need your help.
This is a blog, not a child. Unlike a child (or our cat), it must pay its way. I’m experimenting with ads from various sources inside the posts. I’m also trying to only present them to those who pop in once, never to be seen again, while shielding my regular readers from their constant presence. The ads should only show up on posts at least 2 days old and only to visitors arriving from search engines. If you followed a bookmark back to a 10 day old post and found an advertisement, let me know.
– Bill
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