![]() ![]() So I looked around and found there are people all over the Twin Cities who can help remedy the situation, like permaculture designer Dan Halsey of SouthWoods Forest Gardens in Prior Lake who teaches homestead and landscape design, and Krista Leraas and Dina Kountoupes of Harvest Moon Backyard Farmers, who design, plant, tend, and harvest gardens for people who don’t want to or can’t do the work themselves. ![]() I’m hoping to at least supplement my living-with lower grocery and doctor bills-from my small piece of land.Īlthough I’ve gardened before, I don’t quite have all the skills I need to take things to this level. “The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land,” Abraham Lincoln once predicted. And in the long run, it will save me money, which these days seems like a good plan. Living in a place where I can grow my own food feels like part of my genetic encoding. My mother, who grew up on a North Dakota farm and knows all about the labor that goes into growing food, thinks I am rather, shall we say, idealistic. “Maybe you need to pull out a rib and make a man to do all the work,” my friend Tom, a landscape contractor who has helped me get started, said when he heard me describe my vision. ![]()
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