Our Family's Future Harvest :-)

Lydia has always wanted a garden. She has visions of our family growing all of our food. She has long lists of what she wants to grow and where. Mom thinks the time she spent at her Amish babysitters' farm as a young child rubbed off on her. The rest of the family also thinks a garden would be nice.

However, Mom is a little of a holdout. She will be 9 months pregnant with her fourth child and doing her usual job teaching online from home in the summer. She was thrilled to learn that there will be a farmer's market in town this year. She's picturing being in the air conditioning, drinking lemonade, and eating her fresh foods from the farmer's market.

We decided to compromise and have a very small garden. Lydia has been working on it all evening. Somehow Mom doesn't think Lydia's enthusiasm will last all summer. Mom wanted the garden by the house so the inevitable neglect it will suffer won't be the center of the backyard.