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We have a new contributor-Kristen Hall.

She has a lovely garden and an adorable house and home! Plus a cute husband and daughter...

Yeah growing!

The girl who cried freezer! (or the awesome thing that is Grow Alabama)

Having just found out about this wonderful program called Grow Alabama I must admit that I'm particularly bemoaning my lack of freezer space. Grow Alabama is a program that works to make in-season, locally grown, all-natural/organic fruits and vegetables available on a weekly basis. If you look on their website they have a harvest chart of when certain fruit and veg will be available throughout the year. Their boast is that every delivery is 48 hours away from the field. My challenge with this sort of program is learning to eat seasonally. Being a former hamburger second helper I'm still learning to eat my veg. Tomatoes better be in a sauce. Squash better be hiding under a lot of something else. If I had to pick three vegetable to live off they would be onions, carrots, and broccoli. However, Grow Alabama wants to tantalize me with freshly picked bok choy, ripe eggplant, turnips, persimmons, and okra. My ideal solution? Load up on vine ripened tomatoes, just plucked apples, fresh leeks, and delicate mushrooms and start prepping them for the freezer. Imagine. My own diced tomates with chilies. My own apple butter. My own sauteed mushrooms waiting in the freezer for the perfect steak dinner. My own pasta sauces. Unfortunately my freezer is small and would never stand for it. Never. I'm already storing beef in my in-law's freezer as is. Still, if you have a freezer, or you enjoy the challenge of eating in season I really sugest you check Grow Alabama out. It's local, healthy, and a thrifty (or so it seems) alternative to the various Whole Paycheck establishments popping up across the nation.

Hmmmm, I wonder how much a freezer really is.....

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Hi All,
As i was messing around in my garden (or spots of dirt outside of my apartment!), I started thinking about You Grow Girl, a gardening blog that I love. This let to my thinking about Apartment Therapy, a home blog that I love(see also The Kitchen). I was wishing that we had something like for Birmingham...a place to share our triumphs, trials, experiments in all things "Nesty", like gardening, cooking, decorating, baking, entertaining, etc.

So...here we are! I am hoping that this will be an online community of women who are trying to figure out life and beauty and what they mean to us and to The Kingdom and our relationships to each other, our families and our communities.

Blog as little or as much as you like. I chose the title "Like as a Garden" because all that we do for our homes, our gardens, our families and friends are sowing seeds and hoping that they grow.

If you would like to be a part of this blog, let me know and I will get you added. My vision is women of all ages and walks of like sharing and learning and encouraging.

So, welcome!