Making the Raised-Bed Garden

I am so lucky in that I have John on board with changing our diet.  We had been planning on building raised-beds for this area for a few years, but it just never ended up high on the priority list.  Thankfully, we have had so many nice weekends weather wise this year,  John was able to build them over Valentine's Day weekend. 

Obviously, a home grown vegetable garden fits many criteria for eating a Real Food diet.  Plus, there are so many other benefits.  (More on that later.)

Here is the area where the beds will go, we had cleared some weeds and John dug down and leveled off enough area for both beds.

We chose to use 12' long redwood boards.  Use REDWOOD or CEDAR, anything pressure-treated will leach chemicals into your home-grown veggies...blech!

John, busy cutting the boards to more manageable 8' and 4' pieces.

And here are the finished boxes!!  8' x 4' beds...so excited to get to planting!!

 
Notice the staggered corners... much stronger.