08/24/2026
SMALL & INTENTIONAL 🌱
This is our backyard plot. We’ve made the decision to start small with our garden.
We don’t have a fence yet, and where we live, that means there’s only so much we can realistically grow without sharing the entire harvest with the local wildlife 🙈 Rather than trying to create a massive garden overnight, we’re treating these first few years as our foundation-building years.
We’re building the infrastructure. Improving the soil. Learning what grows well here. Figuring out our climate, our property, our watering systems, and our growing season.
And most importantly, we’re building skills.
At the same time, the perennials we’ve already planted are quietly doing their thing. Every year they get a little bigger, a little stronger, and a little more productive 🌿
Eventually, the fence will go up. More beds will be added. And we hope to finally grow the majority of our own food.
But when that happens, we won’t be starting from scratch 😉
We’ll have established plants. Better soil. Infrastructure. And a few years of experience behind us 👩🏼🌾
There’s something really satisfying about realizing that progress doesn’t always look like doing everything at once.
Sometimes it looks like planting a few things, learning as you go, and building something that will feed you for years to come 🧡
