FAMILY FARMING

When we moved to this house two years ago, the garden was nothing but heavily sprayed lawn with almost no life. It was a deadzone. When we created our vegetable beds, we had major pest problems as all the predator insects were wiped out.

Oh how quickly nature recovers when given the chance… Within two years, we planted close to 100 (mostly native) trees/bushes/vines, created pollinator gardens, beehives, raised beds, compost piles, a chicken coop, bat/frog/lizard/bird homes, a wildlife swimming pond. We are constantly getting rid of the lawn and converting it to flower/pollinator beds. Now we are sharing our garden with many birds, bees, butterflies, fish, frogs, chickens, lizards, hummingbirds, Dragonflies, fireflies, rabbits, opossums, raccoons and a garter snake. I have much less pest problems because slowly but surely, the garden is reaching an ecological balance with predator species. There is life pouring out at the seams. We see it, we hear it and we feel it. Makes our hearts happy.  We also love it that our children are growing up in this small nature refuge that we created in the middle of ‘perfect’ sprayed lawns, witnessing the cycles of life and learning to share our space with other beings.