New Year Reading List

From top to bottom:

• Klutz Press’ Kids Gardening by Kevin Raverty and Kim Gilbert Raferty
• Territorial Seed Company 2010 seed catalog
• The Backyard Homestead edited Carleen Madigan
• Don’t Throw It, Grow It! by Deborah Peterson and Millicent Selsam
• All About Vegetables by Ortho Books
• The Joy of Keeping Chickens by Jennifer Megyesi
• The Foxfire Book edited by Eliot Wigginton
• The Complete Compost Gardening Guide by Pleasant and Martin
• You Grow Girl: The Groundbreaking Guide to Gardening by Gayla Trail
• Chicken Coops by Judy Pangman
• Sunset Western Garden Book

Notice a theme at all?

My resolution for the new year is to finally make good on my desire to develop a bit of a homestead.  I don’t have any concrete goals, just hoping to produce some tasty homegrown food and maybe raise a chicken or two.  Hopefully this will provide an endless stream of content for this blog, which I will document regularly and concisely.  Wish me luck!

An Introduction

I’ve intended to get back into the blogging game for some time now, but I’ve been faced with a bit of a predicament.  My old blog is ugly and neglected.  It was supposed to be recipe driven, and while I truly enjoyed writing posts for it, it started to feel restrictive.  I’ve spent several weeks weighing the pros and cons of starting a new blog versus re-vamping the old one and I’ve decided that perhaps blogs aren’t unlike vegetables: best when fresh.

This blog probably won’t be unlike my last one (it does have the exact same name, after all).  While food, gardening and homesteading will be main focuses of this blog, I think restricting it to just those topics is more likely to smother creativity than spark it.  So instead I’m giving myself room to incorporate other interests and hobbies, such as politics, sustainability, crafts, parties, beer, music, art, etc.  I think this flexibility will give the blog a greater ability to be fun, youthful, interesting and, perhaps most importantly, enjoyable for me to work on.

I’m excited to get started.