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The Family Garden Plan: Grow a Year's Worth of Sustainable and Healthy Food
Written by Melissa K. Norris
Narrated by Chelsea Stephens
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Live a Bountiful Life
Do something good for your family by learning how to plant a garden that will yield healthy, wholesome food throughout the year.
Melissa K. Norris, fifth generation homesteader and host of the popular Pioneering Today podcast, will walk you through each step of the process, from planning your food crops and garden space to harvesting and preserving the food you grow. Even intermediate to experienced gardeners will discover dozens of new ideas.
More than just practical advice, you'll learn how gardening can contribute to a sustainable lifestyle and give you a sense of accomplishment, peace of mind, and overall joy.
Make The Family Garden Plan your "grow-to" guide for good eating and greater well-being for you and your loved ones.
Do something good for your family by learning how to plant a garden that will yield healthy, wholesome food throughout the year.
Melissa K. Norris, fifth generation homesteader and host of the popular Pioneering Today podcast, will walk you through each step of the process, from planning your food crops and garden space to harvesting and preserving the food you grow. Even intermediate to experienced gardeners will discover dozens of new ideas.
More than just practical advice, you'll learn how gardening can contribute to a sustainable lifestyle and give you a sense of accomplishment, peace of mind, and overall joy.
Make The Family Garden Plan your "grow-to" guide for good eating and greater well-being for you and your loved ones.
Author
Melissa K. Norris
Melissa K. Norris inspires people's faith and pioneer roots with old-fashioned skill sets and wisdom featured in her books, podcast, and blog. She is the author of The Family Garden Plan, The Family Garden Planner, and Hand Made. She lives with her husband and two children on their fifteen-acre homestead in Washington state. She and her family are also reviving a forty-acre farmstead as a teaching farm.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Very informative and goes into detail about every aspect of gardening from deciding which type of gardening you’re doing to planning and soil all the way to managing pests, companion planting and preserving.