About AgroSphere

Hello! I created AgroSphere for the purpose of saving and sharing useful information that I am studying and putting into practice in my own capacity. I will mostly be linking content that I find useful in some way, primarily content that can be replicated on a small scale. I will also post images or videos from time to time from my own agricultural adventures.

I'm hobby farmer and gardener and intend to encourage others to build their own gardens or raise animals themselves. You can do it! Even if all you have for a back yard is a balcony, you can experience the satisfaction of cooking with your very own fresh herbs.

In 2018, I was riding home with my friend after work and we stopped at a nursery. He picked up a few tomato and pepper plants for his yearly back porch container garden as I looked around at the different plants and equipment in a half-interested, ready to get back on the road so I could get home and play Minecraft with my friends sort of way. He, being a mentor figure, called me over and handed me a Trinidad Scorpion pepper plant and said "Here, dummy, I bought this for you." (he didn't say "dummy") I was a little annoyed at him. "What am I going to do with this?" I said. "Take care of it. I bought it for you, so don't let it die, dummy." And that was that. I now was riding home with, at one time, the hottest chili pepper in the world in my lap and a pretty good certainty that I was going to accidently kill it. We got to his house and he showed me how to transplant it into a larger container and sent me on my way. I set it in my parents front yard and learned how to know when it needs water and made sure it had plenty of sun. Eventually my once little pepper plant became a big mature pepper plant and produced lots and lots of peppers! This satisfaction of caring for a plant from the nursery to production hooked me. I have been growing plants and raising animals ever since. My single pepper plant turned into a container garden of several peppers and tomatoes, then next year, it grew into an in-ground no-till garden. I built a chicken coop and ordered chickens online and picked up a box full of chicks at the post office. The post office! Now all of this has snowballed into a small farm/orchard operation where I plan on adding several bee hives and move up to larger animals like goats/pigs/cattle!

I say all this to encourage the reader to just start their journey. If you are interested in agriculture at all, if you like the idea of backyard chickens, or of a little container full of magnolias to smell when you open your balcony door, take that first step.

What You'll Find Here

• Field and farm photography
• Agricultural videos and demonstrations
• Practical growing insights and observations
• Shared resources and external links

Mission

To document, share, and preserve practical agricultural knowledge.