 So I've been gardening for a while. I started gardening when my kids were little and then this year coronavirus hit. And so I knew we'd be inside the house, me and now my kids are both late teens. And I said, we were gonna put in our garden like usual, but with a little more gusto because we needed an activity during coronavirus. And we live in a low income neighborhood that's largely people of color and has some food scarcity. It was talking to somebody from Cornell Cooperative Extension. They said, we'd love to help you put in, I was talking about wanting to put in additional garden beds and wanting to make them more accessible to the neighborhood. And they said, we'd love to help you put them in and just in return we feed the community a bit. And so we put in two large garden beds. My house is a corner house. So on the side of the house, a more public area. And we put in these two large garden beds and they said, your job is just to grow the garden. So they helped me put them in and we filled them with soil and planted tomatoes and peppers and eggplant and kale and basil and lettuce and herbs. Then as the vegetables started coming up, my daughter and I constructed a sign for the garden that said, on one side it said, help yourself community garden. And on the other side it said, this is a anti-racist garden because this was during the Black Lives Matter uprising after the killing of George Floyd. So initially when I first started gardening, I didn't know how to garden. And I actually learned how to garden from Google and YouTube. I just started looking up like, how to plant a simple, I wanted to do a raised bed because they know they're a bit easier and to maintain the soil. So I had just like Googled and watched YouTube videos on how to build your own raised bed garden and went to the local lumber store and got two by four wood and screws and nails and started hammering away, built the garden. And they filled it with organic soil. And I got some organic fish meal and seaweed fertilizer that we put on the garden once a week. We would dilute it with water and water all the plants. Depending on the rain, we did or didn't have to water by hand. And then about once a week, we would do a little bit of weeding with raised beds. You usually don't have to do too much weeding. Again, learn this from either the internet or from at my local Agway Garden Store, just talking to the sales staff there to say, oh, how do I keep my cucumbers from getting this fungus that cucumbers are prone to us and dealt with our own pest control. Again, from just talking to people, sometimes at the farmer's market, I would talk to a farmer and say, you know, the leaves and my tomato plants are yellowing. What is that? And they'd say, oh, that's light. You can use blue copper to address that, spray it on around once every other week. It's all organic. So it was really a learn as we go. And we got most of our plants as small starts from the farmer's market or from our local food co-op. One of the nice things about our community, and this is true in some communities, is that there is also for folks who need this, there is subsidies as well, like you can purchase those with food stamps. So we use mostly those starts, but next, this coming summer, I'm planning on starting more vegetables from seed indoors. And I'll have to start them as early as March. One of the best experiences that my daughter had was the people that would come by and we'd be outside in our coronavirus masks, but outside weeding or fertilizing or just kind of hanging out with the plants. And people in the neighborhood would come by and they would say, oh, thank you. I am not able to afford fresh fruits and vegetables much because they're really expensive and I'm on a limited income or I got laid off because of COVID and your garden sustained us. We came by and they would tell us what they cooked sometimes too. And thank us and I love the challenge of eating exactly what's growing now, of going out into the garden or over to the farmer's market and seeing like, oh, this is what's popping now. This is what's coming and getting that and then creating the dish from that. So you have tomatoes, eggplants, peppers, okra. And so then our dishes were a ragout of that, were baba ganoush with eggplant. You know, really based on what was growing right then and so our diet kind of rolled with that.