Hi everyone at BYAP!
Thought I'd better join after seeing so much useful advice here.
I grew up on a farm (equine centre though) and to date, have done some vegie gardening in peaks and troughs over the years (as in some years very busy with growing vegies, then years of not doing any gardening at all just due to life circumstances...). I don't really know that much about gardening and maybe that's why it's taken so long to hear about this AP business but I still manage to have some success producing food for the family.
We had a good worm set up on the farm but after a few years someone accidentally fed horse manure to them from a Nag that had just been drenched and we lost the vast majority. Fast forward a few (many) years and I'm getting back into the swing of vegies.
The past few months have been quite exciting in researching AP. I really do wish I'd heard about this amazing system earlier! My wonderful partner is very supportive and has let it drop that we have a very special xmas present coming in the form of an AP system! What a wonderful woman I have here!
I'll leave it at that as I have a ton of work to get into to start preparing the Area which includes removing some troublesome trees but I look forward to being a part of the AP community and while we all may have different approaches or requirements the underlying reason why we produce our own food unites us all in a special way and the fact I will now be able to feed my fast growing 5 young boys with our own fish is just awesome!
Ciao for now...