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[@Amanda.aka.Megan.Shines]

Randomly stumbled on your channel and started watching some of your older videos. You mentioned that you got started late in the season and that you're in Florida. This is an old video but in case you haven't come upon the information on your own yet, our seasons in Florida aren't like the rest of the country. We can grow all 12 months of the year, but summer is our least productive season. Most veggies can't produce very well in the extreme heat of summer. Things like okra, cowpeas, and sweet potatoes can grow well during the dead of summer, but "summer crops" in the rest of the country are our spring and fall crops. It's best to look at Florida-specific planting guides from like The Urban Harvest or just Google "when to plant x in Florida." I just started my little veggie garden last August and there's been a learning curve of figuring out when to plant things so they don't shrivel in our Florida sun or drown in our Florida summer storms. My beans and tomatoes produced the best October-December, carrots and radishes didn't even pretend to put out roots any thicker than a chopstick until mid-December, and my kale and tatsoi didn't start to grow bigger than my thumbnail until late December. Most of these plants I planted originally in August, but they either were stunted and didn't grow for months or completely died from heat or water the first go-round.

[@MultiArtisme]

You two are so sweet! Farms don't have to have animals. Cats help with insects and bugs and they're cleaner and easier to deal with than chickens. An urban farm would be fantabulous in a poor neighborhood. You could help the neighbors learn to eat better. If you're set on chickens you could sell the eggs to the neighbors to help them see the difference of eating food from animals who are threated well. For some people that's the first step to the vegan lifestyle.