The One Plant Everyone Should be Growing for Food Security
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- Опубліковано 27 вер 2024
- Beans are the one food every culture has relied on for food security for millennia. We are growing dried beans for winter storage and dry bulk food. Check out our new clothing line! http:www.freshpickedapparel.com
I've been growing beans for over 35 years and they are always the crop I can count on succeeding.
Yeah I grow and eat the whole pod early as I simply have not got time to shell or peel them takes too long unless u have other suggestions.
Darren James Cooper I have found that with broad beans you can eat the pod and the beans, I’m not sure if you would be able to dry the pod and eat it though
@Saltyyy Kush420 you could cull some of them or use extra fertilizers to help with that situation some.
Everytime 🤗
Nice to know that you have been growing beans for such a long time. I just planted beans in recycled icecream containers in UAE. Am just wondering is this the right time to grow that. It is 38-42 Celsius degrees here.
Also, after you harvest the beans of the plants, let the plants compost back in the soil. Beans rejuvenate the soil and return lots of nitrogen back in the area they are planted. So not only is growing beans smart for a food source, but the soil is then enriched again, so it can be planted with something else. This is a great crop to grow, just to get a planting spot ready for a different more feeder hungry vegetable.
Beans are so resilient! I soaked a big bowl of garbanzo beans to sprout and grow in my garden. I sprouted way too many so I tossed the leftover beans in my flower bed thinking they would eventually break down. Boy was I WRONG lol I now have hundreds of garbanzo bean plants and green pea plants growing in my beds!
Wow! I hope you put all those extra beans to good use! 😅🤭
I have been growing beans for as long as I can remember and leave half my crop on the vines. Come late September and October I start collecting of all varieties of colourful dried beans from Bartolli , Lab Lab to Runner beans which are an awesome purple! Leave them for a few weeks in trays to dry and then store them. Absolutely delicious in any dish from stews to fried rice. Nutrition dense food. You are so correct in saying they are neglected! In fact you are the first person to ever talk about dried beans on You tube as far as I know! Excellent work!
I tell my fellow growers, not to panic if going on a vacation. Just leave the beans on the vines and forget about them. Harvest them late.
Such a great tip! Thanks for your brilliant videos as I love watching them.
Are Lab Lab beans/hyacinth beans edible? Are their fresh pods edible raw like snap peas and green beans?
I love beans, but I'm Mexican lol. When I moved out of my mom's house I got excited to start buying canned" beans. I thought 'it's easy and quick'. My mother always thought canned beans were a waste of money. Then after months, I realized on how much we do consume beans, she was right lol. Now I buy the 25-pound bags of pinto beans from Costco. I personally love making black bean soup. But, I will eat them with just about everything or alone topped with fresh tomatoes, onions, and a dollop of sour cream. Now, I'll learn how to grow them myself, thank you.
I wish beans were readily available in bulk here, but I've never seen that in stores either in Germany where I grew up or in Austria where I live now.
Topped with tomatoes, onions and sour cream sounds so good!
Hi, I just planted like a lb of Skittles, hoping for a good harvest.
Borslaw Lol 😂😂😂😂
taste the rainbow 😆🌈
Ha!
Try planting M & Ms. The blue ones are hardest to grow though. Must have perfect soil.
@@donberry6079 you need a neutral soil with exactly 6.8 hours of sun everyday. Oh and make sure to play some slim shady to them before the sun sets
Best book ever on cooking beans, even using it as flour for baked goods!
Country Beans by Rita Bingham
oh my gosh, thank you so much! I had no idea I could turn beans into flour! I have Celiac and cannot eat gluten flour and gluten free flour (the yummy kind) is quite expensive, so I will have to try turning beans into flour!
That's a great tip. Thanks so much, now I will hunt this book down for purchase.
💯🙂
Thank you, just ordered this from my library.😊
@@levintry8812 Black bean brownies! Yum.
Levintry you can make flour out of dehydrated squash too.
I use beans in my garden as a survival staple. I grow for seasonal consumption as well as winter consumption. Nothing better than enjoying your own food you produced.
When I plant my beans, I put 2 or 3 in each hole. I do not thin them, amd have never been held back in production. Black beans dehydrated well and lasted through the winter. Green beans blanched and frozen lasted a long time as well. You said growing in bundles, right? What do you mean? How many plants are all together in your bundle?
I've been growing and drying beans for over 50years. Some I leave dry, and some I can. They are a staple in my pantry. There's nothing like a pot of ham and bean soup on a cold winter's day.
rachel ball what is your bean to harvest ratio? I have a family of three and want make sure I plant enough.
Thank You
@@frankstockton4480 Eight pounds per person yields about 6 pounds per 10 foot row. I space them about 6 inches apart, in rows about 2 feet apart. If you are just beginning, your local cooperative extension service has a wealth of growing knowledge that is specific to your area.
@@frankstockton4480 sorry Frank, I meant to say 8 plants per person. It was a rough night lol.
rachel ball Thank You for the information and the speedy reply.
How do you store them Rachel ball? (the dried ones)
I buy dry beans all the time and literally never had the thought that I could grow them instead! Seriously thank you for flipping that light on in my head haha! 🙏🏼
Pinto beans with rice and tortillas. The greatest meal in the world!! I grew up on the stuff!
I've been a vegetarian for the past 17 years, so beans are a staple in my diet! The important thing is to soak beans or any type of legume before eating them, even going so far as to sprout or ferment them and other grains. This reduces the amount of phytic acid in them and makes them more digestible!
I couldn't pick a favorite type of bean, but for people who live in the desert I'd recommend they try growing tepary beans. Tepary beans are extremely heat and drought tolerant, as well as being extremely healthy and easy to grow. They're such an underrated crop it's ridiculous.
I have two favorite beans that I don't think I could ever choose from.
Anasazi beans: These beans are gorgeous, their skin is white with dark and vivid red splotching. I adore them mostly for color, as I only have a few seeds and haven't gotten a harvest yet. They are quite interesting with their growth as well, as they climb and wind up other things. I would call them runner beans, but I do not know if that's accurate as I am not as familiar with beans.
Lima beans: I love Lima beans. There are many colors to them, I love the shape and I especially love their flavors and how well they do in soups. Even if they're just boiled and then coated with a bit of butter, they're amazing.
Adina Potato'Warrior Love butter beans!
Dragon Tongue beans are my fav. Gorgeous white and purple beans and buttery flavor. I think peas belong on the underrated list too!
they also put nitrogen into the soil!!!
The leaves take nitrogen out of the air and leave it in the soil.
Patrick Kirwan also the rizobium bacteria in the roots helps out
This is interesting to know :0
I love the soft jazz! Can you please talk more about different types of dry beans to grow??
AKLADY87 grow purple hull in the south
I didn't read the description and was prepared for the "superfood" of the moment to be recommended. But you clearly have thought this out because beans are exactly what you say they are!
Thanks for the effort you put forth to help others! Keep it rocking!
My grandmother who was from New Mexico said they would put the dried pods and bean plants in a big paper bag or gunnie sack and step on it to separate the beans from the plant material.
She grew up on pinto beans so they grew a lot of them and saved time by doing this. The beans actually would be at the bottom due to their weight.
Hope this might help a few who are looking to harvest a lot of dried beans.
I always grow Navy, Great Northern, Light and Dark Kidney beans for dried beans. This year I added in a few more varieties. Love the great mix you can grow and dry for soups,
Such an important video! The amount of shelf space dedicated to dry beans in the supermarket is pretty minimal!!
They taste so much better than canned too! Thanks Luke.
This year while I was canning pinto beans from the store I got a silly hair and decided to plant one bean for fun. it was super satisfying to get that harvest! One bean 100 percent germination on that guy. and that one bean turned into about 50. I should have counted or weighed them. Next time.
The plant took up about as much space as a bush bean. the one thing I did not hear you mention is that with dried or soup beans
it is a MUST to let then dry on the plant!
Great video Thank you for your time
Good Gardening
@@howtomoo Thank you I did not know that.
I live in Florida and the ONLY time I buy canned beans is for hurricane preparedness due to a possible electrical outage. I am actually even looking into saving up to get a pressure canner so that I can preserve my own beans because a bag of dry beans from the dollar store (if you don't much care about organic) can give you several pints of cooked beans. Ounce per ounce the home canned beans are a fraction of the price of store canned beans. For $1 you can have 6 or more home canned pints vs 1 can of store bought.
beans are so versatile also-- bean burgers- soups --pastes--refried beans-- dips- and most people dont realize you can make Hummus out of any kind of beans and herbs and spices you like-- my daughter makes an awesome buffalo dip using white navy beans instead of chicken and it is amazing- thanks for the bean share-- blessings....
That sounds great!
What’s Buffalo dip?
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Reminds Me of shelling beans at my Grandparent's picnic table.
Great Northern Bean is my favorite thus far
Boldly Grow Homestead ditto
My favorite beans are chickpeas, just because my son makes AMAZING hummus with them.
Awesome......would he/ you want to share the recipe?
@@pebblepod30 I wish. It's a secret recipe. I don't even know it and I'm his mom! LOL!!!
@@pebblepod30 Go to Refika's Kitchen on UA-cam, see if she has one, she has awesome Turkish and some "fusion-style," and USA "dupe" Fast Food Recipes. Plus, she's comical and fun!
@@lisasmith516 ok thx
@@Crazycatlady-g8m ok
Awesome. Will definitely be growing beans. I remember my grandmother harvesting her beans by pulling the entire plant, then running her hands down to pull all the pods, then sifting the beans. Can’t wait to harvest mine.
great music choice towards the end. I'm definitely adding pinto beans to my growing list this spring. thanks
Split pea soup is my favorite meal! Growing beans in my garden next year for sure!
How do you dry the peas? Is it the same way as beans? Good idea.
I love those too and wanted to know if any peas can be used as split peas if dried.
I'm with you! Not to mention the various amino acids we get in beans that we rarely get in other garden items.
My favorite green beans are White Half Runners. My favorite dry beans are probably Kidney Beans. A close second would be Great White Northern Beans. We eat loads of beans in our diet. I live in far western NC. Beans are a very common staple in most pantries and in almost every garden here.
Canadian here, love your channel! You've helped me to have the confidence to grow my own food and the knowledge to actually keep it alive. As for beans, oh man.. beans are the best during the long cold winters, just fills you right up. I normally use red kidney beans (but i am open to all beans) in soups, stews, or veggie burritos!
I loaded all the plants on my kitchen table and the kids loved helping me open the pods to save..super fun!
Food security...something we all need to keep in mind these coming days. Love all types of dried beans. They can be prepared and eaten in so many different ways. Dry canning beans is nice for long storage.
I love beans, I grew them for the first time last year and I think it will be a staple in my garden from now on, I grow kidney beans, black turtle, and Jacobs Cattle bean. I have pressure canned them too, so i have fast beans on the ready and I did dry some out too.
I love growing dried beans for exactly the reason you listed- something to remind you of your garden in the deepest of Winter.
Never enough Cattle Panels to grow the amount and varieties of beans I would like to however. The 87-bean soup will have to wait.
Excellent video!
Food prep is very smart, as it doesn’t take much to upset the apple cart.
Hair does not matter as much as food. Coming from a hairstylist. Truly you have helped with my garden in Socal. Cyndi
I wished I’d payed more attention to my dads dry bean gardening. He would plant them in every nook and cranny, any spare space in his flower gardens. 🦋💜
We're they Bush or pole beans?
Did he trellis them?
This video should be more relevant today than everrrr, thank you for this message I enjoyed it!
I just put some cooked red kidney beans in my dehydrator as an experiment to see what would happen. I coated them in Sriracha sauce, smoked paprika, and a drop of liquid smoke. They turned out so good! Crunchy barbecue flavored beans. I forget what it's called, but they sell some kind of barbecue flavored bean snacks in the health food section at the store and they're ridiculously expensive. My recipe turned out just as good and it's way cheaper to make. If you don't have a dehydrator, I'm sure you could do it in the oven as well.
I was raised a vegetarian over 70 yrs ago. Love all sorts of beans, black, garbanzos, navy, pintos,...
In Brazil, beans and rice are the basis of our nutrition.
Helio Cezar de Oliveira Mayer isn't that nuts? 😏
And that's true for Central and South America as well.
Does that cause obesity?
Beans and rice, rice and beans... yum!
I love me some beans and rice and I'm Italian but grew up around mixed cultures in my hood, it was a good hood.
I grew some of the pinto and black beans this year because of the long term food security. Glad you made this video.
They are a staple here in the south . cornbread beans taters onion don't get much better. You're Loved more than you know.
LOVE READING EVERYBODY'S RESPONSE.
Luke thank you, never really thought about dried beans from a garden. I'm have gained a lot of information from your channel. We do a 7 bean soup and white beans and ham. Again thank you, take care and best wishes
My very fav is Scarlet Runner beans. It's a bean i love for the flower to bring in Hummingbirds!! To eat and dry, and use to replant each spring.
Don’t cut your hair! It looks great. I am shelling Kentucky Wonder beans and Scarlet Emperor beans. My grandfather used to grow these as part of his winter bean mixture. I wish I knew all the other varieties he grew, but I’m making my own mixture. I grew 1500 year old cave beans this year and they did great. Also purple pole and yellow wax pole. Can’t wait for next year to use what I learned this season. A lot of what I learned came from you. Thank you!
Never throught of beans this way before!
Tho I do know they last very very long, my parents have bought more dried beans than canned since I was young! But now I see them in a slightly more informed light
I thinking my fave beans are lyma beans! :)
Beans, beans.
The magical fruit.
The more you eat, the more you toot.
The more you toot the better you feel, so eat some beans with every meal.
That's a popular misconception. Most of the people don't toot at all when eating beans, and almost all of them won't have flatulances at all after some days/weeks of eating beans regularly.
@@magischepflanzen758 I dare you to have a large bowl of borlotti or salugio beans. If you don't blow your blankets off the first night, I'll send you a whoopee cushion. I consider these beans to be dangerous weapons.
@@magischepflanzen758 this one-tin-a-day-for-25-years-chilli-bean-eater agrees!
More you toot, better you feel. Beans, beans, every meal
I always loved beans all kinds ....
I love making pinto bean soup topped with cheese onions cilantro and a dab of sour cream.
My family used dried beans during the depression to survive. Love them!
My family ate dried beans during the recession a lot, my father (our only source of income at the time) worked at one of the banks that didn't survive the recession, so although we weren't at risk of starving there definitely was some financial difficulties.
Can't beat some good ham and kidney beans on a cold winter day!! Thanks for all you do Luke!
Joshua I will have to try ham and kidney beans, we make white beans and ham with cornbread. Thank you for a new meal idea. Take care and best wishes to you
Make ham n beans using several types of beans. They all work.
Joshua Christian my dad really liked bacon and kidney beans. He also loved baked great northern beans with salt pork. He really wasn’t into sweet baked beans.
@@airinbone most things are better with ham lol
Joshua Christian don’t forget the cornbread
Pinto beans are very nice. I have a variety of red and brown beans that have cross bred. They grow so fast you can almost see them do it. They produce great crops, and they grow in the winter right up to the frosty times. Thanks for this video, you are so right. Beans are a great and easy crop which could save your life.
Also the dried plant can be fed to your animals as legume hay. Sheep, goats, horses, cattle will all eat it and so will your chickens. Not much hay but if you grow a large quantity as we do we make many bales of hay from the 5 acres of beans that we grow.
God Bless Joe
I got a little too excited about beans this year and planted 5 different varieties 😂 but I do love beans and I can always count on them to do well and give me food to preserve for the winter ❄️
I grew red beans to make succotash. I just need a bacon plant to make my life complete.
My fave is Lima’s.
I'm 68 and have never planted or considered planting anything until this year. I want to be prepared for if/when SHTF and have been researching container gardening tubers. Light bulb moment with this piece of info. Brilliant idea I had not considered. Thank you so much for sharing!!! ❤❤❤
Hi, Luke. Yes, I grow dry beans... My two favorites are Haudenosaunee Skunk Bean (aka Iroquois Skunk Bean) and Orca Bean (aka Yin-Yang bean). Best wishes from Kate in Olympia, WA - 9/20/2019.
It's the first thing I plant in Spring & I plant a variety: a few bushes of bush beans for green beans and at least two kinds of pole beans for dry beans. I love preparing them in this way: Soak them overnight, rinse & cover with water boiling them until tender then drain, add olive oil, garlic, salt & coarsely ground black pepper, fresh or dried thyme & a good squeeze of lemon juice. Fry them until fragrant & serve hot with fresh bread & a salad. Simple but utterly delicious!
Love Lima Beans! Especially with ham and ham bones, slow cooked 😉😁
I like to eat peas and beans raw, and ate the first few lima beans raw. Then I read somewhere uncooked they have the most cyanide of all beans. Then I realized that yes, I was having stomach issues after eating them.
Amen! 😋
My favorite beans are red beans for Jamaican “rice and peas”, followed by pinto beans for bean rice burritos, edamame soy beans, and black beans for nachos/soup. Love them! Packed with protein no need for suffering
I love hummus but it can be so expensive. I'm going to try growing my own chick peas. Thanks for the awesome advice.
I love beans, grow a bunch every year
Awesome video my family grew up on beans I still love them !!! You should do a video on types of beans that are good for drying !!
Haha - I'm just hulling today's harvest of borlotti beans, cranberry beans and fava beans as I'm watching this! I completely agree with you. I don't let them dry though; I let them grow until they're full-size but the pods are still fresh. Then I hull and freeze them in bags. It's great to have beans I can spontaneously use without having to plan ahead and remember to soak them overnight. The ones I'm hulling right now are for a soup for dinner, with carrots, celery, potatoes, leek, parsley root and lovage, all from the garden. :)
That's great if you have dependable electricity.
@@jelatinosa We had a power outage last year during a very violent storm, but it only lasted about 15 minutes or so. We're lucky that outages are a very rare (and normally very short) occurrence here in Germany.
@@beautyforashes2230 where I live, Puerto Rico, we can have outages that last days, and these have no real cause. After hurricane Maria hit us, we didn't have power for months because our electric grid is so old and crummy throughout the island. We get short power outages often that can last from a a few minutes or hours, up to a couple days.
@@jelatinosa Oh wow, that's so awful! I'm sorry to hear that. Do places like hospitals, where power is a question of life or death, at least have an emergency generator?
Under appreciated unless you are vegan. As a vegan I eat LOADS of them. They are my main source of protein.
And can taste very good.
True! I never knew how wonderful chickpeas & soy beans are, before I went vegan. Tofu, tempeh, soy milk, hummus, falafel etc. Great stuff!
>.> you have never been to a korean household. My rice! My family puts every kind of bean in there cause its "healthy and i need it". Lima beans are the worst. They disintegrate into the rice.
Then my family eats bean encrusted rice cakes. I do like red bean paste tho.
I eat every form of soybean. Natto. Tofu. Fermented soybean paste. except fried tofu skins. Its too sweet for me.
@@BatmanPwnage Yeah right, I was talking about the western diet (west europe (germany in my case) / USA). In Asia & South America it's different (propably one of the reasons, why you have lower heart attack & cancer rates^^).
I plan to make some korean oder japanese candy with red bean paste, I love the idea!
You said, hence my search to grow my own.
Beans & rice, rice & beans!
Please make 2020 the year of prepping! That would be so much fun 😀
Agenda 21! Itll happen by 2021.
Yaaaaaas!
Not just fun anymore. NECESSARY! 😂
This aged well 😂
@@nicolew8321 I'm psychic 😉
When I was a kid we always had a big ole restaurant size lard can filled with beans on hand. My mother would buy them in bulk and store them in the can. It's what we lived on year-round actually, as we were very poor. Beans, tortillas, hamburger, macaroni, and the dried eggs and powdered milk of the war commodities years that were still being distributed during the '50s. She also kept a big can of flour, lots of yeast and real butter on hand. Every weekend she would make our bread for the week. One pan of dinner rolls was made for us kids to chow down on hot out of the oven.
I love making 18 beans and peas soup. I use smoked Turkey meat instead of the ham. Thank you for the info.
Lora Robinson yummy , my favorite
Yes I save my beans for next years crop and winter bean soup.
Last year I grew pinto beans. This year I grew Lima beans. ♥️ growing beans and letting them naturally dry. Also have seeds for next year. 👍🏾🙂 Fav beans to grow: Scarlet Runners. The beans are like beautiful jewels.
I buy pinto beans in a 25 pound sack. We don't eat much meat here and beans are a pretty regular part of the diet. We make a lot of Mexican food and pinto beans are perfect for enchilada filling, refried beans and as part of a vegetarian chili. My whole family likes a bowl of rice with pinto beans. Then each person picks their own topping - chopped tomato, guac, chopped jalapenos, chopped red onion, cheese - you get the idea. Quick, cheap, easy and delicious.
Do you use any degassing methods? I would eat a lot more beans, but I don't want to be gassy all the time
@@rhondabailey9238 in my personal experience, I soak overnight and then hot soak them again, draining and refilling between and before cooking. That helps a lot. Also, eat them frequently. That will build up the gut bacteria needed to efficiently digest beans, helping to eliminate the gas problem.
@@ThisIsATireFire ~Thanks, I'll do that soak method...And yes, I've heard often that the gut has to get use to fiber. I've been working on having better gut bacteria by cutting out junk and eating more stuff like spinach and asparagus. Can't wait to start eating beans and rice again...I always load mine with veggies and then we sometimes top it off like you do...That's popular here in Texas
I just don’t get the good flavor if I soak mine
@@rhondabailey9238 I remember googling it way back when and buying something from Amazon. Thing is, with such a high fiber diet, we really don't have a gassiness problem with the beans.
Hi!
You talked about how Americans don't have beans in our diet much anymore. I think this comes back to a mindset. I was raised to believe that rice and beans are for poor people that can't afford food. That came down from my parents parents. It's how they stretched thier budget so when I think about beans I think poor. I believe I'm not the only American that was raised this way.
What kind of varieties would you recommend?
Love dry beans. Pinto my favorite. Kidney, black and garbanzo favorites too.
A lot less sodium to use dry vs canned. It’s the primary use for my instant pot.
Yes, I love how much quicker it is with an instant pot. Though a slow cooker also does well.
I love growing my own beans. 2 of my favorite heirloom varieties are Swedish Brown (bush) and Amish Knuttle (vining). Wonderful flavor!
I love Pinto beans and blackeye peas myself. I keep loads of it stashed in my pantry.
I'll be growing Pinto beans and Wild Goose Beans this year in addition to my fresh eating beans. I love doing up a batch of baked beans with ham steaks or pork roasts. Nothing better on a cold day.
I think you are a wonderful human...and
you are right about beans!
Well I was searching “growing red kidney beans” because I bought them (and all my other beans and most of my seeds) from you. So thanks for always having a video and God bless
Thank you Luke! I love garbanzo beans (chick peas)! I especially like to make Spanish bean soup with them as well as hummus.
Kidney beans are my favorite
That music reminds me of Charlie Brown
I have several different type of beans and because I was raised old school I keep a variety of beans in my house...those are the beans I started seeding and they have taken off
Hi, Any updates on the 6000 mixed seeds garden bed?
laudya1 Yeah, I want to know, too.
I've been curious about that as well 😂
I have been wondering about that, too!
Me too. I did something similar in an under-the-bed storage box on my balcony but the seedlings are just now starting to come up. It’s all leafy greens for fall!
laudya1 I forgot about that
Just got my homestead bean packs from y’all two days ago. I am surprised how much I’m enjoying growing beans but they are a quick and easy to grow. I’m trying to grow 80% of our food.
We moved to a 20 acre farm last year and I grew my first bean crop recently.
Cowpeas (while not actually beans) are our fav.
Ha! Thought you were holding out goji berries there for a moment...
I thought goji or miracle berries
777ttaylor I did too
me too
Same
I thought it was totally Goji's:)
Thank you. You have made me rethink growing dry beans.
bean soup, ham and beans, burgers and candied beans, beans w/ cheddar instead of canned refried beans. Good stuff! Another fine video!
What variety of beans are those?
I grew a few pinto beans this year--first time. It was quite satisfying to open and find the beans inside. I'll be cooking some to enjoy soon and I plan to plant them again next year--maybe some black beans too.
I am so looking forward to having my gardens, but I'm homeless at the moment, and dreaming...Read Anastasia, the Ringing of the Cedars of Russia, so much inspiration and CREATIVE ways of planting. I'm a hairstylist too, too bad were not closer or I'd do it for ya! God bless everyone
kat i am Hang in there! God bless you.
Toss some seeds here and there in your town! I saw a giant pole green patch next to the freeway near my home. It definitely did not plant itself.
if youre literally on the streets, the city/town is your garden. woods nearby? start turning it into a "food forest" but be careful you dont plant anything invasive. theres a hefty fine for improperly planting bamboo here because of how it takes over.
Hi kat i am, ive got an acre you can garden in trade for room n board. In the process of building a green house as well.
@@michaelglenning5107 Not sure what u mean, You have a place I can live and garden, pls explain Where are you? Im in blaine , Wa