Hi there! My name is Meredith and I have my own Suburban Micro-Farm. I grew up in Wolfville Nova-Scotia Canada and starting gardening with my dad as a young child. I've always been drawn to nature and science, collecting bugs, reading about animals, and tending to my own plants. Wolfville is located in Annapolis Valley, a hot bed of pick-your-own fruit, hundreds of apple orchards, blueberry farms, strawberries - so I guess, you could say I've been raised to farm.
In 2001 I moved with my family to Guelph Ontario. I started gardening on my own around the beginning of high school and sought inspiration from blogs, YouTube videos and gardening books.
"My Suburban Micro-Farm Blog" was created in 2013 to focus more on edible gardening and less on perennial gardens and landscape design. I though originally that I would be able to do both, but my passion for small-scale farming has lead me to focus more on my edible garden blog and creating my own content and with the main focus of the blog being about growing your own vegetables, raising animals, and the challenges of the hobby.
I started my original garden blog in 2010, around the same time I started the vegetable garden. I've used the blog like a journal and notepad to get my thoughts and ideas on "paper". I have written about my own learning experiences through the years, and given my own tips and advice based on what I've read and tried myself. I've reviewed products and recommended companies without any payment or sponsorship and I will continue to do that, and it's my goal to remind honest and transparent.
In 2010 I started University in Montreal Quebec at Concordia University and studied fine art education and sociology, I also played varsity women's rugby. I would keep plants in my apartment and come back each summer and garden with the limited time I had. I graduated in 2014 and started teaching french in Guelph and was finally able to start seeds early in the spring and keep chickens full time.
Today in 2016 I keep over a dozen rare breed chickens, Japanese coturnix quail, lionhead rabbits and a garden full of unique and rare vegetables curated from an amazing array of selective breeders, small seed companies and gardeners from around the world. I live in the suburbs and only have about 0.09 acres of garden space. If you can name it, I probably grow it. 2016 marks a special year because I am starting my own line of garden seeds, as well as exclusive products and services from my micro-farm.
If there is one thing I'd love for readers of my blog to take home, it would be, that you really can grow your own food. I live in the suburbs, but I make it work. It's a healthy hobby for the mind body and soul, and everyone can use a bit of home-grown veg in their life - wither it be from your sunny balcony, tiny urban courtyard, shared community plot or nice windowsill.
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