Planet B Gardens is the 10-acre homestead I purchased in beautiful northwestern Montana the summer of 2014 to start my own local mini-farm. I started with a small vegetable garden and hothouse. I added apple and cherry trees, along with blueberry, strawberry, and raspberry plants. Goats, turkeys, chickens, and ducks came next. You can keep up with the latest happenings on the Planet B Gardens blog, along with recipes, what worked, what didn’t, and what I’m trying next.
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Sometimes you’ll see me at local farmers’ markets in Columbia Falls, and Kalispell, Montana during the summer under the name Planet B Harvest.
I see a need for decentralizing food production and building healthy local food ecosystems. While big agribusiness and factory farming were once working solutions for providing reasonably healthy food for folks, small-scale, localized food production stands a better chance of providing quality food at reasonable cost in the near future. Why is localizing food production a good idea? More on that here: Why Grow Local along with ideas for getting started. — Ise Lund