Hello From Colorado!

New Sqf'er here from Loveland, Colorado. I am 44 yrs old. One wife and three kids. Well, 2 kids and one teenager. Make that two 9 yr old twin boys and one 14 yr old girl who live with us...
Anyway, I have recently lost over 80 lbs with Weight Watchers and have really been trying to watch what I eat. I do or have done a fair amount of gardening and some things grow well for me and some don't. Looking around in the library for a compost book I stumbled upon Mel's book and have been hooked ever since.
I do live on a small farm with goats, lots and lots of chickens, ducks, horses, cats and dogs. Growing some of our own food just makes sense.
This looks to be a great site and I have spent lots of time already just searchin and readin.
Hopefully sometime in the next day or two, I will have my first box filled with MM and garlic planted.
Pics are coming soon for progress reporting!
Looking forward to the adventure.

to the SFG Forum!!!!

Welcome Rooster! There is a wealth of information on this forum, it has definitely helped me a lot this summer! Congrats on your weight loss- growing your own food will probably help a lot with eating right- it gets you excited about vegetables in a strange way! (brussel sprouts have always been a favorite, but I've never been excited about them til I grew some!)

I am very excited! Finding my ingredients for MM was rather simple and painless for the most part. I discovered that vermiculite is readily available in the area...in the spring lol:shock: I had no real problems finding nurseries that carry at that time of year, but this time of year is slim pickens! One garden center had it for $59 for the 4 c.f. size. Most in the area generally carry it for $20 less than that thank you very much. Ended up paying $32 for it. No problems finding 5 different composts. It was very exciting buying aged poo! I do have my own compost going, but have not been very "hands on" with it till recently. Like I said, I was originally in the library researching compost when I stumbled upon Mel's book. Living where I do, I have lots of compostables readily available. But I wasn't planning on this endeavor so needless to say...I wasn't ready with my own:affraid:

Next season though its game on! The 4x4 box I am starting now will probably be the only one that gets its compost from outside the farm.

rooster.

I can see you are going to end up with huge carrots etc. with all that lovely poop you have. I am a little envious of that, but then you have to do the shovelling.

Don't forget to compost the stuff.