Home vegetable gardening, heritage food preservation and traditional food preparation -- our path to food independence

Each season offers fresh, nourishing locally-grown vegetables here in the Piedmont of North Carolina, and now is the time to plant a fall and winter garden.

Beets, carrots, lettuce and the dark greens are amazingly crisp and sweet when they mature in cool weather, so give yourself a treat this year. Greens are especially good crops for beginners -- easily grown in good light in a small space.

See also Food Is The Key's fall fermented beverage classes and register on this website. To receive an emailed announcement, write foodisthekey@earthlink.net

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The birthright of all living things is health.

This law is true for soil, plant, animal, and man: the health of these four is one connected chain. Any weakness or defect in the health of any earlier link in the chain is carried on to the next and succeeding links, until it reaches the last. (Sir Albert Howard, The Soil and Health, 1947)