Learning to Listen To The Land

We've been on this land since June, and the first question was simple: can we grow food here? The answer turns out to be yes — but not by following anyone else's rules. This is a walk through the garden in late spring, checking on wheat, rye, oats, potatoes, beans, dill, turnips, squash, and the volunteer surprises that keep popping up from seed we scattered and forgot about. No tractor. No "farmland." Just an electric mower, a small cultivator, and a willingness to let the land tell us what works. The core lesson: throw out the gardening books and pay attention to what actually grows. Tomatoes overwintering in mulch. Wheat on a slope from scattered seed. Squash volunteering everywhere. The land knows more than any expert who's never stood on it.