Overgrown!

The plot was very overgrown when we started working on it...

After 3 years on the wait list we wondered whether anyone had been in fact growing crops in this section, but regardless, the plot was now allll ours.

We started off reading books about kitchen gardens, compost, organic gardening, etc. We've even read The Old Farmer's Almanac for fun! 

I would argue that native New Englanders have a strong sense of independence and thrift, which lends itself nicely to gardening.  And who doesn't love communing with the earth and cultivating useable foods, flowers, and herbs??!  Now, just to figure out how and what to plant, and where...and do we get our garden rototilled prior to adding compost or mulch, or is that done at the same time?  We will soon know...after a quick phone call to my family.