Breaking Ground
What We've Been Up To For all of our friends who might be wondering where we went, we've been busy. Intensely, physically busy (finally!) getting our garden started. One of the major reasons we moved to Newburyport—and in particular to this house with a half acre of sunny, flat yard—was to expand our vegetable garden. Our goal is to feed ourselves throughout the whole year by growing our own produce and (eventually) raising our own eggs and maybe keeping bees for honey. Although we considered it (briefly), we don't live on a farm, so the garden design needs to be part of a suburban backyard where kids can play and we can have friends over for cookouts and birthday parties (like normal people). We were inspired by the idea of intensive gardening in French potagers (kitchen gardens) that make use of every inch of ground, and are located directly by the kitchen rather than being hidden in the "way back" of the yard. They are often decorative, and that's what ...