I suppose the one benefit of the Ottawa situation is that our puppet government (and their corporate/central banking cartel bosses) seem to have overplayed their hand when they started freezing protestor's bank accounts. Those people who were paying attention now have a very vivid understanding of what may be coming with the whole CBDC/social credit system (and hopefully woke up quite a few motivated people who will now cut their ties to centralized systems and contribute towards parallel decentralized systems).

I was worried that my 23 reasons piece might be a bit of an information overload but I often get people making long lists of excuses why they cannot garden so I wanted it to be as comprehensive as possible. Also (as I am sure you can tell) I am very passionate about gardening, seed saving and giving back to the living planet, so once I start writing about it those things they take on a momentum of their own and next thing you know I have written half a book :) Truth be told I could have made it a "30 Reasons You Should Start a Garden in 2023" article but I cut my self off after 23.

Your garden sounds lovely, relatively diverse (offering a range of different forms of nutrition and seasonal crops) and efficient (using the rain run off for irrigation). Have you ever tried planting specific flowers to invite in predatory/parasitic solitary wasps to help manage the herbivore insect populations? I find that they can help a great deal when it comes to caterpillars and worms/grubs.

Do you grow your crops from seed or buy seedlings from a nursery? How do you fertilize/add fertility to the soil?

I can offer a list of shade tolerant crops that I like to incorporate into garden designs for my clients at my day job (landscape design and installation) if you like?

You are most welcome and I look forward to interacting with you more in the comments section of my articles.