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Joanna has a bunch of questions about gardening in Micanopy (which is, incidentally, one of my very favorite places in Florida). I’ll answer them by breaking her email up into manageable bites.

Hello David,

We purchased 3 acres in Micanopy about 3 years ago. I feel like we’re still learning about our property, here & when to plant what (that will actually produce food), we are seniors so trying to figure out how best to grow food in a way we can continue to maintain throughout our later years.

One of the best resources for knowing when to plant is the Florida Vegetable Gardening Guide from UF, which is free and online.

As for what to plant, I wrote a book on the topic. Getting crops that grow well with the climate and take very little work makes a huge difference in your success. Experimenting is excellent, too. Plant, test, try, and try again.

I’ve watched many of your videos, including the one about growing food in north Fl; yams, yard long beans, “evergreen tomatoes” ( where do I find those??????)

That’s the “Everglades” tomato. It’s a super-easy, weedy little sweet tomato. You can get it from the Victory Seed company.

However, our property is mostly flood zone…. we have chickens that have been adapting to swampy conditions… so we call them “swamp chickens”.

I was considering using galvanized livestock food troughs to make raised beds , since we also are full of mole crickets here.

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My name is Jennifer Piano, wife of David Piano, and our family took on the Primal lifestyle about two years ago. We started shortly after finding out we were pregnant with our last child.

Before taking on the Paleo lifestyle I had suffered from depression for many, many years and was addicted to crystal meth for six years. After being saved from the addiction of meth, I replaced that addiction with food, slowly eating myself to a enormous 310+ pounds.

I was diagnosed with severe rheumatoid arthritis, high blood pressure, and was borderline diabetic. At this point I knew something had to change if I wanted to live a long healthy life for myself and my family. It wasn’t until then that my husband’s cousin introduced him to Mark’s Daily Apple and the Paleo lifestyle.

My son Matthias, who at the time was only two years old, weighed in at 71 pounds. He didn’t have the energy to play and always had an upper respiratory infection. Since changing our eating habits, he too has lost an incredible amount of weight. At almost five years old, he now weighs 54 pounds and has an enormous amount of energy.

As a family, we were able to lose roughly 335 pounds. I lost 180 pounds and just recently reached my weight goal of 130 pounds. Went from a size 24 to now a size 4. Now all that’s left to do is tone, tone and more toning. I thank you for your help and for your website!! And I know that with your website you will inspire others to reach their weight loss goals! Thank you for all that you do!!

Jennifer