Good on you for trying to grow food, and seeing how hard it is! Over time I've grown more and more fond of people just doing hard things, not necessarily new th

Good on you for trying to grow food, and seeing how hard it is! Over time I've grown more and more fond of people just doing hard things, not necessarily new things, admiring the willingness to "wade through reality" to see what it's really like. With gardening and food growing, I think the public view is very wrong - that its easy grunt work that anyone could learn in an afternoon. The same belief is held about most skills, like plumbing, carpentry, or electrical repair. Once you start executing a project, you get to learn how wrong you were. Which, I think, is fascinating and fun!