After a fabulous, but long day of children's eye appointments, visiting friends, planting radishes, carrots, beets and turnips at a friend's house, feeding the worms and planting more carrots, beets and radishes at home...to be able to pick a fresh salad of homegrown greens, recycled green onions, recycled carrot greens, wheat grass and recycled romaine lettuce was well worth all the effort of growing, tending, water and nurturing plants all winter long. [Wow! That was one massive sentence!]
The only things in the photo above that I did not grow are the unhealthy parts...the croutons and dressing. I don't always have enough greens on hand to make an entire salad, but even being able to add a few to store bought greens, packs an extra punch of organic, non-GMO nutrition that far exceeds any energy I put into the process. Plus, gardening is pretty great therapy too.
So where do you start? Amazingly enough, if you're local to the Northern Kentucky/Cincinnati area, I'm offering a few classes this spring to help you get started. The first is coming up quickly and will introduce vermicomposting and growing microgreens. In May, I'll be offering a tomato tutorial. You can visit this Facebook link for more details about the first class.
Regardless of how you start or what you grow...just begin...you'll be glad you did.
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