Plant Your Garden Now

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One of my best memories is of the warm, spicy scent of tomato plants as I brushed by them in our garden when I was a little girl growing up on a sheep farm in northeastern Ohio. Every summer (until I was 11 years old and we moved away from that farm), we ate from that plentiful garden, canned and fermented, and stored food from it.

When I got married and then pregnant with Maddie, my enthusiasm for growing food and flowers…