I love dirt!

Mmm, mmmm, nothing like the smell of fresh dirt! Yesterday was all about the dirt. Jimmy tilled up the big garden. I know, I know, I said I wasn't going to to a big garden but I just can't help myself :) There are just so many things that I want to plant and I'm doing long-term food storage so I need to have enough veggies to stock my freezer and to can. 

This was our "poor man's patio" outside our back door. I'm turning it into a small vegetable garden. I raked all the larger mulch off onto the tarp and left all the fine stuff because it has already started breaking down and I wanted it to be tilled up into the soil anyway to keep it light and fluffy. I'll reuse the mulch once I get stuff planted. I think I'm going to plant some climbing peas along the fence. I'll probably do lettuce, spinach, tomatoes, and peppers in this bed as well. My herbs will be in my front flower bed.

This bed is on the west end of our yard where the boy's sand box is. I'll plant some other climbing vegetable along the fence here too. Beyond that is another raised bed where I'm going to do a strawberry patch.

Lennon doing a little dirt work too :)

And me (looking a little haggard after a long days work!), 20 weeks pregnant and probably insane for thinking I can manage all this gardening on top of working at the dairy and everything else I have going on! I'll look like one of those women in Africa hoeing the fields with a baby tied to me in a sling and little ones playing at my feet. Maybe I should get one of the big pots to carry water on head ;)

All this dirt reminds me of Dirt The Movie. It's a really good movie and you should watch it if you haven't already. It's on Netflix instant and really goes into depth on how corporate monocropping, genetically modified crops, and pesticides are killing the soil on our earth and will eventually lead to the starvation of mankind if we don't do something soon.