For a long time, we lived in a place where we were very limited as to what we could grow for ourselves. During that time I had a long-term severe health breakdown that no one could seem to find answers to. When we moved from that place, I determined that I wanted to grow a good part of our own food and practice homesteading as a lifestyle.

Also I have been interested in alternative gardening since I was a teenager. I grew up in rural Indiana, we always had our own garden, hunted some etc.