Simple Food

Well it is that time of year again. Getting our garden beds ready for spring. This year I purpose to grow 4 new vegetables. I haven't decided if it will be peas,carrots,parsnips,kale,celery and butter beans. I know that broccoli will not grow in our soil, why I don't know...We have tried everything to get those suckers to grow. Should we try again? and waste the space that we could grow something that we know will grow....I am NOT gonna let little ol' broccoli defeat me. It is becoming a obsession with me a broccoli. I love garden grown broccoli. OK enough of this obsession. Our goal this year is to grow 100 pounds of food. We live on a 6000 square foot lot with a driveway, house and garage. The front year is totally landscaped with non-edibles so it is just the back and part of the side yard. This will not include the fruit trees, I know that we will get at least 200 pounds of fruit. I am so ready for this challenge. Not only will we be eating this fabulously organic fare, I will also be preserving our food too. In the past we grew a small garden and belonged to a CSA. I love CSA's and think they are awesome, this year I want us to live off of our land and not pay for food off of someone else. I also be looking for beef and lamb meat. We have a wonderful egg farm we go to. God has been so Faithful and Good to us.