By my calculations, yesterday was the last Persephone Day here in southwest Virginia!  That means that right around today, plants will really start growing again, and I'll be putting 2011's first crop (lettuce) in the ground in just two weeks.  Time to hurry up and make my seed order!

If you live further south, your Persephone Days are already gone and you should probably be thinking about planting.  My condolences to those further north --- you get a few more days or weeks of winter.

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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.



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