Sorry, it's been a while. Great book tip for you: "The Dirty Life: On Farming, Food, and Love" by Kristin Kimball, recently out, check your local library! Ms. Kimball makes growing local foods SEXUAL, intimately linked with her meeting her husband! and her appeal should be wide - she is a "back to the land" apprentice - representing all of us, that way, I think.
Be a city girl, wear the designer jeans, and get a sore crotch! hoe'ing (yes, I used the right one there) broccoli for a man you don't know. How can you resist a book that starts like this, and makes a case for good old-fashioned hard work and local, organically grown foods.
Ever heard of a CSA? (Community Supported Agriculture.) People sign up to come to your farm to pick up their fruits, veggies, meat, eggs, cheese, honey, maple syrup - whatever you can produce - for a fee, paid up front to the farmer! That is how Kristin and hubby Mark make their living!
Check out the book. And if you want to find CSA's in your area, or farmers' markets, so you can eat locally grown foods, Google, baby! They have websites - these are not your Grandfather's farms!
