Hi Ryan, it's really good to have you posting here. Six years of car free retirement living has led me to an urban homesteading sort of life style. Vegetable gardening is a big part of that.
It is so cool to have all those little green solar collectors humming away in the back yard turning sunlight directly into groceries. Sometimes I look at a squash or a tomato and I think, this is the ultimate molecular technology and thousands of generations of people every bit as intelligent as we are spent their lives perfecting it.
Lots of people can haul dirt around and build things out of wood. What's rare is a person who can figure out what's really going on in a garden and what needs to be done. Hmm, I guess I'm not really one of those people yet. Maybe I need to find a local bicycling horticulturalist. If they're sprouting up in Vancouver maybe there are a few in Austin as well.