Welcome To Fat Momma Farms
My suburban garden of Eden
Beginnings are hard.
The “beginnings are hard” was the instructional title for this section when you go to create your first post. I left it here purposefully because it is true. Beginnings are hard.
I thought for a while about how to connect to people, I know I wanted to create a space for people who are open to trying new things and do not expect perfection. I don’t necessarily want to be like any other gardening channels out there. I want to bring something authentically my own to the world of gardening.
I started gardening as a form of therapy after my father passed away. I needed something to connect me to myself. That is what gardening did for me. I love my time at my garden, sometimes I just go sit in my ramshackle greenhouse and just breath. God made people for two reasons, firstly to worship him, secondly to be care takers of the planet he gave us. “The Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it” Genesis 2:15. Any gardener will confirm there is something spiritual about gardening that heals our soul.
After two years of growing, I was still in love with my new hobby, and we had built my first green house. Then I decided, completely backwards, why not start Vlog and setup a channel on Rumble. I say backwards because most sane people start with a regular blog and build an audience that way first and then move to video. I often do things out of order. Yet, it always seems to work out one way or another. God’s mercy is everlasting and aways shining on me!
Not Picture Perfect
Photos of my garden are not going to ever be featured in Better Homes and Gardens. I work a full 45 hours a week, so I garden around my work schedule. This means sometimes I’m pulling weeds at 6:45 am or moving planters in the dark with the flood lights on. I can’t always post videos as much as I want on the Rumble channel. Let’s be real, gardening sometimes is pretty boring, you are literally watching the proverbial grass to grow.
But I am always researching, always thinking about next projects and next steps. I can always post here; keep you up on our progress, share plans for future improvements, notes about what I would do different, the “script notes” for the videos. This is after all a blog, and that’s what blogs do. I hope you come along for the ride.