Hey! It’s about time I got back over here! Jeez….. I guess I have really neglected my two other little blogs. One being this one and the other my goat blog! I’m running three blogs now and trying to get a website launched. I am a novice but I’m managing and having fun too!!! I’m also trying to keep up with Blog Catalog (BC) and Stumble Upon (SU) . Actually, I am very new to both. But I really like them! On SU, there are some great people who are genuine and generous with their blogs. So I must remember to stumble everyday….

BC is fun too! I’m meeting other bloggers and I am slowly gathering blog sites to learn more from, link to and add to my blogroll. Speaking of blogrolls, I haven’t done any yet! Gotta get to it!

Back to my venture today…. I went to the market, took photos of it and blogged about it on http://blog.food2gro.com. Support your growers even if you are a gardener! Check out the photos I took on the new blog entry “Gardeners support growers too!”

Updates on the Costa Rica dream: We are in the process of selling our Washington property (please happen) and then we will head on an adventure to CR! We’ll look for land. We’ll go more than once I’m sure. But our goal is to have the land secured by the end of this year and the house built later down the line. I visualize our small farm in Costa Rica with our biointensive garden and our Nigerian Dwarf Goats.

Wow! My starter tomato and pepper plants have really taken off! I’m getting ready for the patio garden!!!!!!! I just posted a new entry in my blog on the food2gro blog. The plants are doing well!

This year in Palo Alto where the weather is great, the garden should do very well. I am hoping to get things planted on the patio by the end of March. It sure has been great and I’ve had lots of support! Thanks to everyone for their photos, links and resources! I truly appreciate it.

I’ve set up a plan to take the biointensive gardening course in Mendocino in late fall next year. It’s a 2 or 3 day course. After that when the 5 day course is available, I’ll be taking it too. I want to teach others how to grow through biointensive methods. I’m hoping I get a chance to teach others when I make the big move to Costa Rica!

We are looking at property in the Puriscal area in Costa Rica, it is in the central valley so it’s up high enough to grow a variety of fruits and vegetables. There is a lovely  small city near by called Santiago. Farms are near by so it is pretty much rural. Great for the goats! I haven’t been able to find out if there are an Nigerian Dwarf Dairy Goats in Costa Rica. I did find out they are very stringent on bringing in livestock from the outside. They have a page dedicated to goats and what they need to get through customs.

We’re in the process of selling a piece of property we own outside of Seattle, Washington on the Kitsap peninsula. It’s a great place with 2.5 acres. Views of the sound and the Olympic Mt. range. Close to the sound too! A boat launching near by. We love it there but we want warmer weather. So once that is sold, we’ll start investigating Costa Rica…. although that will take time because remember, we have 4 more years to go!

I’ll keep you updated on our endeavors next week! In the meantime, check out the food2gro blog! It’s really developing into a nice blog! Images, videos and some text. I designed it to break things up a bit. I like to give the reader visual stimulus too! All the products and companies I feature come highly recommended. Just remember to always go organic! Grow Your Organic Vegetable Garden. 

Jubie

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I am still learning about bointensive gardening, acquiring other gardening knowledge and will soon learn more about goats. I’ll share what I’ve learned and demonstrate with videos as I grow myself into a world of sustainability. You can follow me this year in growning an apartment garden and a few small kitchen plants for a kitchen garden on video. Most people live in apartments around the world! Many are successful gardeners. It’s amazing what you can grow in a small space.

If you have land, you should seriously consider biointensive gardening. You’ll need about 4,000 sq. ft. per person. It will take a few years to prep your garden working up to good results, but it will in the long run turn out to be less work and less space to deal with.

Biointensive gardening is the wave of the future. The more you know about it the better. Grow your own food in a fraction of space. You are literally growing your soil. Giving the soil the nutrients not the plants. Learn more about biointensive gardening and saving your seeds as if your life depended on it!

If you can truly become independent from the powers that be, you will be free. Biointensive gardening will not deplete your soil, it will grow it. Practically no one is aware that the soil on this planet is erroding and the majority of it is depleted and continues to be depleted soil. To couple that alarming news, most food is being grown genetically and even organic food is not as nutritious or fruitful if not grown through biointensive gardening.

Biointensive gardening saves space, water and prevents errosion. You will work less in your garden for more food. If you would like to know more about different and easy gardening techniques for all places and all spaces, check out my blog on http://blog.food2gro.com .

This year I am growing a patio garden for all you apartment gardeners. I’ll even throw in a bit of kitchen gardening. If you have a window sill, you can grow at least one kind of food for the experience of growing your own! If you can’t grow for yourself then support those who grow locally, a neighbor or a farmer’s market. It is better for your health to buy fresh locally grown food. If you avoid the supermarket you also support your local grower which means you are contributing to less oil consumption (food miles) , chemicals and hormones and genetically altered food. Always go for organic gardening and learn along with me to grow biointensive gardens in the future.

I’m also going to feature a webpage and blog entries in the future about Nigerian Dwarf Dairy Goats. I have started another blog called Got Goats? I want to hear funny goat stories, not ghost stories….goat stories. I don’t care what kind of goat it is, I love them all. They’re great for a laugh and a cry when you see them eating your exotic plants (the most valuable ones of course). I plan on writing a few stories myself soon. We had a goat when I was a teenager of all ages… like I was really overly excited about having a goat while I had so many other priorities like hanging out with my friends. But she won my heart and ever since I’ve loved goats!

The gardening and the goating are part of a journey to my ultimate destination and to have my small farm where I’ll be biointensive gardening and growing goats. So I’ll blog and add and update the site as I embark on the journey. This is planned to happen in the course of 4 years or so…. I’ll be moving around a bit during those 4 years, but I’ll be sure to have a garden wherever I go and want to share the gardening experiences with you!

I started my other blog http://blog.food2gro.com in Nov. of last year. I am about to launch the parent site to the blog: www.food2gro.com, I’ll set up a forum too. I am not a newbie to blogs, websites and forums on the user end of things, but I am one now as a publisher! I am getting lots of help from many kind people! Thanks! If you know about biointensive gardening, goats or gardening in general please drop by and add to my blogs and site! Or if want to help me with the site or blog that’d be great too! It’s all greatly appreciated!

Good gardening and goating to all!

Jubie!