Posted by Amy on 2/5/2011 to Health & Fitness

I want to inspire you to plant at least one vegetable plant or fruit tree this season. It is so rewarding, relaxing and HEALTHY to pick and eat from your very own yard!

Ben and I started our first simple garden 3 years ago. We started by putting our compost (ANY fruit, vegetable, egg shells, coffee grounds, newspaper etc...NO meat or dairy) into a small separate garbage in our kitchen. We then started a big compost pile outside near our garden. We made 4 or 5 boxes out of old wood and planted Squash, Tomatoes, Zucchini & Lettuce. To our amazement they grew and we were eating out of our own yard! Going on year four our compost pile is huge and has great useable soil, we now plant in the ground and I bought Ben a greenhouse for Christmas so we can grow year round.

I hope this blog inspires you to start simple and plant one vegetable or one fruit tree...You will love it! YES I am very lucky to have a gardener (BEN/husband) that does most of the hard work but I do go out and pick the produce, prep and cook it!

We just planted our winter crops last week...

Our first attempt at growing in a greenouse... Greenouse & strawberries on left

Compost Pile..As you can see we have      Here is our normal garbage can &
a few "volunteers" growing...I used           small compost can. I walk it down to
Kale out of there last week :)                     the compost every other day or so

Keep up the great workouts!!!

Eat Every Color of the Rainbow Everyday...