Home Farming – Looking back for the future

 

The convenience of harvesting your own produce is also cost effective, sustainable and tasty, of course we can add  nutritious.  The idea of growing vegetables, fruits, berries and small livestock is called home farming.

Joan Kerr’s home gardens ( front and back yard) is full of food, flowers and beauty.  Having planted food interspersed edible flowers,  perennials, herbs and berries for more than thirty years has given Joan the knowledge to share and encourage others to do  the same.

To launch the home farming concept, fbsc.org, though its Windfields Community & Teaching Gardens Project, cultivated the Oshawa Victory Garden an as example of an easily replicated model used used for growing food during both worlds wars.

 

The model has a prescribed schemata that includes: potato, turnip, corn, tomato, beans, parsnip,

beets, carrots, peas, cucumber,and squash.

We are embracing this model, and expanding it to include other vegetables, fruit and berries, and also canning/preserving your harvest, storing, fermenting, dehydrating, and cooking.

Help to reach our goal of 300 people who are home farming by 2015.

Join us and share ideas as we grow our own food, caring and maintaining, control pests, canning and storing and finally tasting the harvest.

There is just something wonderful about knowing what you grow and eat.