The Death of Growing Freedom

Well, it looks like my old blog “Growing Freedom” is dead. Apparently upgrading to the latest version of WordPress without backing things up is a bad idea. By all accounts my content is gone, even if whatever “Internal Server Error” sorts itself out. I suppose I should be upset – I put a good chunk [...]
Deer Fence #3 (GF) (Video)

This is one of my vlog posts from Growing Freedom, my old blog on the trials of trying to start your own sustainable garden/mini-farm with almost no personal experience. As implied, this is the third video in a series in which I desperately try to keep animals from eating my garden. I estimate, despite the fences [...]
Rototiller vs. Iowa Clay (GF) (Video)

This is one of my vlog posts from Growing Freedom, my old blog on the trials of trying to start your own sustainable garden/mini-farm with almost no personal experience. Figuring that hand-digging was taking too much time and effort, I convince my parents to rent a rototiller for me – the results are not too surprising. [...]
Radish Harvest: Final Payback (GF) (Video)
This is one of my vlog posts from Growing Freedom, my old blog on the trials of trying to start your own sustainable garden/mini-farm with almost no personal experience. Trying to see a return on my money and time – We might not have made much, but we had bags and bags of radishes at [...]
Django’s Garden (GF) (Video)
This is one of my vlog posts from Growing Freedom, my old blog on the trials of trying to start your own sustainable garden/mini-farm with almost no personal experience. Let’s just say that this isn’t Iowa Soil so much as Iowa Compacted Clay. It’s like trying to dig wet but setting cement. As you can [...]



