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When other little girls, twirling in their tutus, were asked what they wanted to be when they grew up, most of them gave typical answers: an astronaut, a dancer, a mommy. I was not the typical little girl. I wanted to raise my hand and shout, “GARDENER,” because I knew, even back then, that the dirt was calling.
I’ve spent 20+ years with my hands in that dirt. I can officially call myself a gardener now. I’ve maintained gardens of all sizes; as my life has shifted through the years, so has my garden. The newlywed years brought a side garden in our double-wide mobile home; with the addition of two little ones, we planted roots in a Mcmansion in high maintenance suburbia and I got to work breathing life into a massive backyard acre-garden behind it, growing 2,000+ lbs of produce in the process. With my children nearly out of the house and “empty nester” status around the corner, I’m tackling a new phase of life. I’m working hard to downsize, and with that comes the shrinking of my garden.
I’m quite passionate about managing food waste, so I’m going to capitalize on this life shift to find out how much food I really need to grow for just the HH and myself. I’m downsizing to a kitchen garden for two, and I’m as excited as ever to experiment with gardening on a smaller scale.
When I’m not digging in the dirt, I love a good canning session, blogging over on my other lifestyle blog OneHundredDollarsAMonth, flipping through seed catalogs, dreaming about my next London vacation and baking up a storm {savory and sweet–my Cast Iron Skillet Chicken Pot Pie is as tasty as my Chewy Chocolatey Nutella Brownies}. I am rarely without a project and without my trusty Puggle sidekick, Lucy.
So grab a shovel and join me {and Lucy} as we tackle all sorts of gardening adventures.
~ Mavis
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