Modern Victory Garden Challenge, Month 1

The first month of the Modern Victory Garden Challenge saw not a whole lot going on... Blame the wet weather, or just plain laziness, but still got some things done:

1- Grow your own- Planted some beet seeds, chard seeds, kale seeds, radish seeds and pea seeds. Started some tomatoes and fennel. Radishes are sprouting. Started some lentil sprouts. Started some Cauliflower and Thinking about corn...

2-Repair your own –Repaired a broken shovel handle
3- Learn something NEW! Nothing…Yet
4-Eat It! Nothing to harvest yet. Did make a cola pot roast and bagged up the leftovers to use for sandwiches, ate it for about a week! 
5- PRESERVE IT! – Nothing to preserve yet

THE MODERN VICTORY GARDEN CHALLENGE

What??? I thought I was through with these things. I mean over the years I have taken prt in buy nothing new challenges, freezing my ass off challenges, saving my urine challenges, etc.- Most of these put on by the Crunchy Chicken. But I was perusing my blog the other day and grew reminiscent (and add the fact I am retired now and need a project) for the Independence Day Challenge, put on by Sharon Astyk. It was such a great tool to use to learn more about self sufficiency, and preparing one's self to become more independent. The trouble is it seems to have vanished over the years, so I thought "Rob we need to bring this back". So here it is, The Modern Victory Garden Challenge!

 THE MODERN VICTORY  GARDEN CHALLENGE:

 

1- Grow your own- means grow your own food be it from a huge multi-acre farm/garden, or a backyard garden or even a few pots. Maybe just some sprouts grown indoors. Just grow something!

2-Repair your own - from a brken shovel handle to rebuilding a tractor, repair it yourself and share

3- Learn something NEW! learning a new technique or something to help your garden grow. Could include but not limited to learning seed starting, recipe to cook something or new way to preserve food

4-Eat It! Share how you eat your homegrown food!

5- PRESERVE IT! Share how you are preserving your home grown food. Could include home cannin freezing or dehydrating

There you have it. Sounds pretty easy? I will post monthly and hope you all will join in!

Rob's Independence Day Posts from the past!