I gambled pretty hard on an early spring...although, in my defense, nature did too. Planting beans, corn, summer squash, and cucumbers on April 24 means our first round of summer crops is already up and running.

Meanwhile, the grapevines on the shade trellis are growing like gangbusters (and attracting warblers to clean bugs off their leaves). Our Reliance vines gave us two small fruit clusters last year, but now they're coated in flower buds. I can hardly wait until the view out our front window is dripping with fruit!

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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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