I love growing my own vegetables. There is something so satisfying about picking them in your backyard bringing them in and serving them. Maybe it's the feeling that you did it all yourself, that you didn't have to rely on a supermarket or your car to get them, maybe it's that the vegetables are all natural and you know it, maybe, it's because it just tastes better. 

We had a beautiful garden before we began contstruction on the addtion to our house. It was part of the original farm land in the back yard when we moved in it was completely over grown and we cleaned it all out and had a fantastic garden for years. It was buried during construction so I am building a new one..from scratch so to speak. Over the last year I put down plywood over a large area in the back fields to kill the grass. I pulled it up a week or so ago and began the building phase.

I need to get a fence up this weekend and some plants in the ground soon! My friend Chef Jeff Fournier will be helping me along the way and sharing some recipe's for locally grown produce.

And then I pulled the boards and strated clearing the dead grass