Hey, everybody, welcome back to the old-fashioned on-purpose podcast.

So I'm about to say something mildly shocking, maybe even scandalous.

Please prepare your hearts.

But after nearly 20 years of planting a garden religiously every single year, I have decided not to plant my outdoor garden this year.

And I realize for the average American human, that's not a very shocking statement.

Like, big deal, right?

For someone like me who has preached gardening and has done this for so long and is such a

huge proponent of growing your own food, like this may come as a shock.

So in today's episode, I want to explain my thought process behind that, the method to the

madness.

I think there is one.

You can be the judge of that.

And what I'm going to be doing instead. So if you've ever felt bogged down or you feel like you're a homesteading out of obligation, or you feel like you're doing anything out of obligation, this might be an episode that you find worthwhile. So before we get into that, I wanted to remind you that we still have some old-fashioned on-purpose planners available. If you are gardening this year or you're just doing old-fashioned living, or you're just living in general, it's going to be your best friend. There's all sorts of sections in the back for keeping track your kitchen, your garden, your animals. And even if you don't have any of those things, I love the weekly spreads. And they are formatted in the way that I use planners the most and that they have hourly slots.

They have spots for your goals and priorities each week.

So I use mine all day, every day, and we still have some available.

So head on over to prairieplanter.com to grab yours.

Okay, so this garden thing is still, it still feels a little bit crazy to say it out loud because this has been

such a big part of my life for so, so very long. The first thing we did when we bought our property,

well, we put in a compost pile because we bought it in July of 2008. So the compost pile and then

I immediately started figuring out where to put my garden because even though this property is 100 years old, I couldn't find a garden plot. I think it had been,

I mean, I'm sure somebody had one here at some point, but it had been so long that I couldn't

identify it. So I did an in-ground garden really basic for the first few years. And then if you've

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