Backyard Farming

I've had it in my head for a number of years that sometime in the not-too-distant future I would like to live on a farm. While I'm nowhere close to the point of acquiring a farm of my own, I'm working on getting some practice in my backyard.

At the moment my backyard is in shambles after years of neglect. I've been away from school the past few years and haven't had the time to put in the upkeep. This is all going to change this year. Around now is the time to start preparing the yard and that's exactly what it is that I'm going to start to do. This weekend I'm going to start to get my yard in order and begin the process of transforming my now dormant suburban landscape into a blooming variety of vegetable, fruit and flower gardens; or so I hope.

It will certainly be a bit of trial and error. But who knows, perhaps in due time my yard will look like this:



For now I'll just keep on planning everything out.

Also, there was an article in the New York Time today about people in urban areas growing small orchards. You can check it out here.