Eat Your Vegetables!

Date: March 28, 2012
Author: sweetwaterstyle

Now while I love my garden…you may have noticed that I only grow flowers not food!

It’s not that I don’t like food….it’s just that between the deer and the rabbits….there isn’t much chance that any food would make it to the table.

I do grow some lettuce and herbs on the deck….

but that is the extent of our “farming”!

We have to leave the food growing to the experts….

Have I told you about my brother?

  • He lives in Florida in the Winter and Maine in the Summer! 
  • He is a sustainable urban gardener 
  • He is an expert in the science of permaculture
  • Maybe some day he will “guest post” for Sweetwater Style!

Here are some photos of his amazing plants in Florida!
He grows enough food in the front yard of my Mom’s winter home and his own backyard garden to have a stall at a Market called “Sweetwater”….too funny!
Alas….that Sweetwater Market is too far away for us to shop at…so instead…

 we bought a share in a CSA!
Starting in June we will be getting a weekly delivery of vegetables from The Fox & Fawn Farm!
Fox and Fawn Farm
 The Sweetwater Daughter, Sweetwater Son and Mr. S and I went together to buy a whole share!  Can’t wait!  

So we will be eating our vegetables….and letting the experts worry about foiling the deer and the bunnies!

Speaking of Bunnies…..here is a great kid read a loud….

Tops and Bottoms by Janet Stevens
It’s about gardening…

the rabbit family makes a deal with a lazy bear for shares of the crops they will plant.
The bear can have “tops” or “bottoms.” 
The first season the bear takes “tops” the rabbits only plant stuff like carrots. Rabbit gets the carrots and the poor bear gets carrot tops. 
The next season the bear sort of catches on and takes bottoms. That year the rabbits plant lettuce and beans.  The bear gets zilch again. 
The last season the bear wants the tops and the bottoms…..foiled again when the rabbits plant corn!
The bear learns his lesson….and you get a great read a loud!

After I published this post….I got a comment from my niece about this great looking planter that you can get (her husband-my nephew sells them…who knew?)

Here is the link  Triolife – Big Gardening in Small Places!

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