Gardens can bring so much victory. Personal victory in the sense of accomplishment and pride one gets from building, planting and harvesting from a garden, not to mention eating from your garden.  Gardens also give you victory from dependence on external food sources.  A tomato from your back yard is way better than a tomato from the grocery store, I promise you that.  Along with that independence comes a cascade of other victorys, victory from the energy it takes to get food to you, victory from the chemicals it takes to grow most conventional food, victory from the resources growing commercial, conventional food takes.  It's quite liberating!!  

In that vein, here's the first and second harvests from our garden.  They are smaller than normal, since i spent the majority of the spring big as a house with our son in me, and the summer has been spent caring for our new baby.  But somehow, we managed to eek out some pretty darn good organic food. In fact, missing from these pictures is a HUGE carrot harvest that I processed into baby food and froze for the little man when he's finally ready.  

First Harvest:

Second Harvest:

So, people.....share your garden victory!  I think we would all be better people to hear it!! :)