Growing Season

I have been obsessing lately about the importance eating and feeding my kids a more healthy whole food diet, growing my own garden, and teaching my kids to work past the point of comfort. Why? Well, I guess partly because I love growing a garden, partly because we are supposed to grow stuff if we can, partly because then we know exactly what we are eating, and finally because my kids are over-indulged. Don't get me wrong, they are great kids, not even terribly bratty, but they really have it pretty easy. I think it is so important for kids to learn to do work that is uncomfortable, and even difficult. (Remember working on the corn picker Jen?) It is a great life lesson I suppose, and they don't get many opportunities to do that.

So I was trying to talk Tim into buying me a farm, but I guess we don't have to now, since someone in my ward offered to let me plant a huge garden on their 10 acre farm. What a blessing! Truly an answer to my prayers. So 10 days ago we went and spent 4 hours planting everything I could think of.

A few strawberries, tomatoes, onions, peppers, lettuce, spinach, carrots, beets, peas, beans, cucumbers, corn, pumpkins, squash, cantalope, and watermelon. Yee ha. So I take the kids there a couple times a week, and we weed, and water, and check on our plants.

I am so excited about this. And being the ridiculous organizer/nerd that I am, I even laminated labels for each variety of plant so I will know which ones are the best tasting or best producing. I will keep you all posted on our progress as the summer goes along, and hopefully we will have an amazing harvest at the end of all this hard work. But don't worry it isn't all work and no play...