So for several years at this point I had been doing the urban homesteading thing on our 1/5 acre city lot. I had a food forest, multiple raised beds, chickens, quail, various types of composting systems, hydroponics, two ponds. I was becoming familiar with urban foraging, plant ID and otherwise reading the land around me. While this offset a bit of our grocery bills, it was mainly my way of maintaining a sense of groundedness when other aspects of my life felt adrift. #grownostr #growyourself