Gardening

This weekend was a great time to get dirty.  Many of you participated in the Market to Market ride from Hills Market to the North Market (or vice versa) and toughed it out through the rain and mud to celebrate local food.  Others of you (like me) also took the opportunity to get your seedlings into the ground and get your garden started. 

Being an apartment dweller I've had to find alternatives to the standard home vegetable garden.  I've been so impressed by the variety of options available to me.

For those of us who are frequently in the kitchen, creating yummy dishes with our local produce...we have many beautiful scraps that would be a shame to end up in the trash.

For those of us who are gardeners, we all are itching to get back in the dirt. One thing that I am looking forward to is using all of the rich, black composting soil that has come from all of my kitchen waste. I use so much fresh produce daily that I am stocked up! Another great way to compost is with worms. Children love helping and it's amazing to see those little creatures churn out such great compost. I personally used a "Worm Condo" and had a wooden system that was similar to this: