With this post we welcome Tara from TheOrganicSister, who we're thrilled to announce as one of a handful of new contributors who will be chronicling their season of gardening here on Gardenaut. Look for a new voice to appear on Gardenaut every couple of days for the next week or so, and welcome, Tara!
Hello! I'm so honored to be contributing what I can here. My gardening status is most unequivocally "Novice" since I've been at this for just over a year. But I'm crazy about anything to do with compost or seeds or things that are green and I eat up gardening information left and right.
We are currently living and learning in Las Vegas, NV on a small urban lot, only 1/10 of an acre, and are slowly working our way towards converting every last square foot to an edible garden as we work around the excessive shade of so many large trees and two-story homes. We have one large raised bed (78 square feet), eight fruit trees, and 650 square feet of additional garden space planted and growing thus far.
I worked for several years as a self-employed massage therapist (my first experiences with holistic living) but I made a leap into stay-at-home-mama to allow me more time and inspiration for my nine-year-old unschooling son, Zeb - an accomplished eater of homegrown tomatoes. My husband, Justin, is a carpenter and all kinds of handy who likes to hand-water the plants while he watches them grow. I'm sure they'll be gracing my posts with their presence on occasion while I drag them along through my adventures in urban homesteading.
When I'm not playing in the dirt, I also enjoy photography, learning to play the harmonica, pounding on a djembe, and blogging at
TheOrganicSister.com.
I'll do my best to relate to you what I've learned along my short path, as well as what I'm still learning. I might even share a garden veggie recipe or two, whenever I happen to master one. Mostly I'll likely tell you what *not* to do, since I seem to becoming an expert on that subject alone.
I look forward to "meeting" you all and sharing in a common passion! Until next time...
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I live in Henderson, NV and I’ve just started vegetable gardening this year with a small raised bed. Nice to hear that there are other people in our climate growing things.