The Family Garden Plan: Grow a Year’s Worth of Sustainable and Healthy Food

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Grow a Year’s Worth of Food for Your Family

Do something good for your loved ones by learning how to plant a garden that will yield wholesome, organic fruits and vegetables in surprisingly less space than you would think. Melissa K. Norris, fifth-generation homesteader and host of the popular Pioneering Today podcast, walks you through each step of the process, including how to decide which food crops are best for your area and familyplan your garden to maximize the space you haveprotect your garden from common pests and diseases naturallydetermine when your fruits and vegetables are ready to be harvestedimprove soil health with simple techniques like crop rotation and backyard composting   Sharing the same practices and techniques from her homestead, Melissa shows you how easy it can be to raise a year’s worth of produce at home. Simple-to-follow charts, worksheets, and photographs are provided throughout to help you through every phase of the gardening process.     

You can enjoy good eating and greater well-being for you and your family.

From the Publisher

Planning

Melissa will help you create a customized plan based on your family’s needs, space, and climate.

Planting

Learn about different plant varieties, how to select seeds, successfully grow your plants, and protect them from pests, disease, and weeds.

Harvesting

This section includes helpful charts, so you know when your fruits and vegetables are ripe for picking and detailed instructions on how to preserve your produce using a variety of methods, such as curing, canning, and freezing.

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Ten Peaks Press
Publication date ‏ : ‎ January 7, 2020
Edition ‏ : ‎ Illustrated
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Print length ‏ : ‎ 224 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0736977619
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0736977616
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.4 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8 x 0.59 x 10 inches
Best Sellers Rank: #130,800 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #84 in Vegetable Gardening #97 in Organic & Sustainable Gardening & Horticulture #1,118 in Christian Women’s Issues
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