Thoughts on grazing in your yard
curious? This is a post on eating your lawn… well, actually it’s about replacing your lawn with home-grown produce!
I recently popped over to Chow.com and read a post on people turning their suburban front yards into mini farms – and with great success!
So, I thought I’d do a little bit of research…
Some of the tips that I found were great reminders of our tendency to be over-achievers… what can we say, we are only human!
1 – start small!
Just because you have decided to take the plunge into mini-farming, doesn’t mean that you need to tear out the entire lawn in the first week! Take your time and learn as you go. Start with a raised bed – build the bed, fill it with good soil, and start out planting your favorite fruit or veggies in it. Don’t get too carried away the first season either! You need to grow just as your garden does!
Another thought in this front – make sure that you remove the grass UNDER the raised bed before filling it with dirt! My first attempt at this was a failure due to my being too lazy to till or dig up the grass. All I grew were grass and weeds that first year – the carrots & onions I planted just didn’t have anywhere to go because the grass under them was waaaaay too lush and thick.
On a personal side note… if you are planning to eat the things growing in your yard, I recommend NOT using herbicides and pesticides on them. If it is designed to kill organisms, do you really want to chance it? Keep in mind that YOU ARE AN ORGANISM TOO!
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