It's hard to imagine my life without gardening. It's an activity I half-heartedly dabbled in through my early 20s, and after college, when I moved back to East John St, I became interested in learning to care for the plants my grandparents planted. I *think* I picked up Gayla Trail's book You Grow Girl t the now defunct Borders Books (RIP) and immediately absorbed it and the companion website. Gayla taught me just how to organically care for the greenery around and convinced me to try my hand at growing veggies!

I've followed her work ever since. To say she's formed and informed me is an understatement; her work has been instrumental in introducing gardening to new generations.

Now Gayla, and her partner Davin, are working on a new project called Grow Curious. Check out their kickstarter and let's help get this new project off the ground! #growcurious

We're a week into having 2 living weed eaters in our yard. Meet Mowgli (left) and Chives (right). These guys knocked out the overgrown area outside our kitchen in a week. Above you can see a semi-before and after: the left is what it looked like on day 2, the right is what it looked like after a week (and Charlie cutting down the ligustrum that was too tall for the goats to reach and/or knock down to eat).

Now we've moved them to the front yard where they'll work on English ivy and wisteria. I'm not sure how long it will take them to demolish the area, but they're already clearing it out with vigor, fertilizing as they go. That particular area will become a woodland garden with paths, hopefully being clear enough for little hands and feet to get in and explore safely.

When I was a kid we rode our bikes through the woods, jumping fallen logs and feeling "extreme". Yes, I realize just how dorky that sentence makes me sound and I'm ok with that. I just want M and F to have the same opportunity, a natural playground available for whenever they feel compelled to get out there.

If you love goats and want to help us make this happen, prints are still available on a Pay What You Can scale.

If you're in the Charlotte area and are interested in renting goats, I can't recommend Wish We Had Acres enough.