We are brought up thinking that money can buy happiness, but freedom of time is what really leads to happiness. Yes, having money can give you the ability to choose how you spend your time, but this has more to do with your cost of living than it has to do with how much you make. If you can reduce your cost of living to the point that you are living substantially within your means, can stay as debt free as possible, can build savings and wealth, and can find ways to earn money that either doesn't require your time (like residual income) or is time you would be spending doing what you love to do anyway, then that will lead to true security, personal freedom, and happiness. Think of it kind of like a business. In business, you want to generate profits and invest those profits to build more profits. Here you want to generate time savings and invest that time to generate even more time savings. To generate that savings, you need to first consume less than you produce, then s
Production Garlic - 7/14 2 large bulbs for seed 3oz, 8 small bulbs 4oz Kale - 7/14 12oz, 7/21 8oz Swiss Chard - 7/14 3oz, 7/21 6oz Snap peas - 7/13 6 edible, 7/14 8 dried, 7/21 1 edible, 30 dried Zucchini - 7/17 14oz, 7/21 21oz July 21 Snap peas - the rest of the plants dried out so harvested all the pods and removed the places. Then replanted 18 seeds to see if they will completely grow before the freeze. It'll be neat to get two harvests in a single season. July 13-14 Garlic - picked bulbs and dried them in the sun next to the bed it was grown in for 24 hours during a 100 degree dry day. Then snapped the stem off and cleaned off the root bulb. Saved the two biggest bulbs for planting next year and put the rest in a dry, shady place in my kitchen. Carrots - only 33% seed growth success. Tops are now 8 inches tall. May start using them as a parsley substitute. Still seems early to harvest carrot roots. Tomatoes - plant is now 2 feet tall and first flowers have bloomed. No fruit yet