About

a family gardening blog that will highlight our homesteading adventures

I think it’s important to grow your own food & to support food grown in your own community. I hope to provide a good resource for local produce choices in the Volusia area and share everything I have learned over the years with my online followers! As a mother of three, our posts will also be geared toward getting children involved in gardening & making it fun for the entire family!

A little bit about me… 

I’m a true Floridian that grew up around my grandfather & mom gardening.  I graduated from the College of Agriculture at the University of Florida where I took a few horticultural classes.  I started container gardening when moved into my first apartment & was more than happy to plant roots in the ground when I bought my first home.  I have been a UF Master Gardener for the last five years, helping students in school gardens and volunteering in our local 4-H program.

In 2018 I decided we needed more space, and we left the house in the city and purchased a 75 year old farmhouse on 5 acres.  After restoring the old house, we built a 1200 SF vegetable garden and have been raising lots of chickens, ducks, barn cats, a rescued donkey and a beautiful horse!  I love our little homestead and I have been learning so much!  I took a break from my blog while making this move and I am excited to be back to share our adventures!  When I am not on the farm, you will find me reading, hiking and traveling to state parks.

The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies.  ~Gertrude Jekyll

We are affiliated with the Botanical Interests marketing program. I don’t like websites full of ads so we pay for an upgraded WordPress blog so there aren’t any.  Shopping through our link helps support our blog and family farm, and we are promoting great products that we actually use on the farm! 🙂