"Various Shades of Green"

Our Herb & Flower garden

We all have to start somewhere right?  Here at UrbanFarm we haven't always been so green and often are just varying shades of green depending on who we compare ourselves to.  But instead of feeling guilty or not living up to someone elses' standards, we try to remember it's more about the journey of  "becoming better".

Once when I was trying to limit (OK, eradicate) our garbage disposing I hid our kitchen can and proclaimed that we weren't going to produce garbage anymore.  I wasn't quite prepared for the near mutiny that almost occurred.  After two days I decided that it wasn't worth my children learning "new" words every time their father opened the lower cupboard to throw something away.

Earthworms!

Next up were the earth worms.  They are quietly living under the kitchen sink (behind that garbage can) eating our leftover food scraps.  We've had them for a year now and all 100,000 are still undetected (and no, they do not smell!).

Rain catchment system

Over the past few years we have had compost bins (two, which have been decommissioned for the past 6months because we are moving to a farm, eventually).  We even sold our 550 gallon rain catchment system (again, that farm thing).  Just recently a wholesaler asked us to send pictures of our farm.  I said that we did "literally" live on an urban farm in the suburbs.

So being "green" doesn't mean you have to live in the country or sacrifice the garbage can-you can be as green as you want and we're OK with that.  Heck, we'll even share our earth worms with you.

Come visit us at www.UrbanFarmNaturals.com and see what we are doing when we aren't feeding the earthworms.