I hope you all remember that awhile back I mentioned we might make a cameo appearance in a grist.org newsy article. Well, folks, it's out. I've embedded the video and also posted a link to the grist.org website where you can find out all sorts of AWESOME information on green things and you can see Mike in the video...
http://www.grist.org/article/food-colin-mccrate-wants-you-to-eat-your-yard-/
That's all for now,
Mike
mike and trisa - this is very cool! i've recently headed down this path myself in the cincinnati area. i've had my house up for sale, hoping to move closer to downtown where the culture is more favorable to an organic lifestyle; however, your story has inspired me to keep my house in the borderlands between suburbia and farm country (quickly giving way to more suburbia!) and to convert my land to an edible yard (brilliant!). someone has to lead the way in changing to more sustainable, small-scale farming practices in cincinnati's suburbs, and it might as well be me (though, i honestly don't know if i'd be the first). my two sons (5 & 8) already take an active interest in nature and have come to call our home "the farm," so we might as well 'farmalize' it (ha!) with signs like yours (love those!) and some chickens of our own. thanks for the inspiration!
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Wow James. That's great! Our earnest hope is that others will embrace a truly local lifestyle while maintaining a connection to the world at large. We can't wait to hear and see how you progress into turning your yard into a living, thriving, sustainable garden and farm! Please let us know if you have any questions. Having set out to do this is a giant step and I'm sure you'll find out just how much work and how rewarding that work is soon.
ReplyDelete(BTW, the sign was Trisa's idea. She took some scraps and burnt the "logo" in and then decided to paint over it. She cut a few feet off of one of our snap pea plants and then painted that onto the sign too.)
As an aside, the borderlands as you so aptly named them offer (in my opinion) the best of both suburbia/rural and urban advantages when it comes to farming in our front yards. Having enough space to grow our own at the same time as living close enough to peopole that they can see what we're doing, join us, or in a myriad of other ways, connect to us makes the burbs the ideal setting for this type of lifestyle.