Partly why I made sure we have apples trees, cherry trees, strawberries, raspberries, grapes, and at one point even blueberries and blackberries too. Not because I am a fruit nut, but because in a pinch I knew we would atleast have something to eat if the pandemic had taken a turn for the critical, or the bottom fell out of the economy, or there was a food shortage of some sort due to either of the aforementioned factors. We also usually have one box growing potatoes, and a couple tomato plants too, nearly forgot about that! This is all at our home, at the farm our in-laws have various other crops growing all Spring/Summer/Fall long. The kids and I do our part with weeding, pulling up rocks, watering the plots for weeks on end once school is out. I don’t want to turn our whole yard into a garden plot for veggies and such, but using a part of it only makes sense. Learning to grow something is a handy skill to have. Teaches patience, planning, commitment, and environmental care (although only on a 2ft by 6ft scale). But still, better than nothing at all.
Besides all the food stuff I also prefer to cultivate various trees on our property too. Not a whole forest worth, but a nice stand of trees all over the four corners of our back & front yards. Over the thirteen years that we’ve been at this house I have planted, transplanted, and encouraged roughly 20 trees of various kinds to grow, not including the hedge row at the back of the house made up of twenty or so Cedars. Not going to make much of an impact to the environment as a whole, but should give us plenty of shade in the future, and provide a home for the local birds & squirrels etc etc… we also don’t spray to eliminate dandelions or wild flowers in an attempt to help the bees and such. We do a little, and that’s about as good as it gets for us.
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