Free Gardening Guides
Learn to grow more food with practical, printable guides based on over 20 years of real-life gardening experience. Whether you’re planting your first tomato or growing enough food to fill your pantry, these free resources will help you garden with confidence.
Over 20 years of real-life gardening experience condensed into simple, printable guides.
Learn to Grow More Food… One Garden at a Time
You don’t need a tractor.
You don’t need 100 acres.
You don’t even need to know what you’re doing.
Trust me…I certainly didn’t when I planted my first few tomato plants over 20 years ago.
Since then, our family has learned to grow about 85% of the food we eat, including all of our vegetables, most of our fruit, and all of our meat.
And now I’d love to help you do the same—one crop at a time.
That’s why I’ve created these free garden guides.
Whether you’re planting your very first tomato or trying to grow enough potatoes to feed your family through winter, these guides are designed to save you time, help you avoid common mistakes, and give you the confidence to grow more of your own food.
What You’ll Learn
Inside these free guides you’ll find practical, real-life advice like:
🌱 When to plant
🌱 Common mistakes to avoid
🌱 Soil tips
🌱 Watering advice
🌱 Harvesting
🌱 Storage ideas
🌱 Cooking ideas
🌱 Preserving tips
🌱 Real-world lessons I’ve learned (sometimes the hard way.)
No fluff.
No complicated gardening jargon.
Just practical advice from someone who’s made plenty of mistakes so hopefully you don’t have to.
Current Free Guides
- Tomatoes
- Potatoes
- Garlic
- Pole Beans (including my famous Purple Podded Pole Beans!)
- Dry Beans
- Broccoli
- Squash
- Onions
- Warm Season Crops
- Cool Season Crops
- Weed Tea Fertilizer
(and whatever else you’ve added)
Why I’m Giving These Away
People ask me all the time…
“Where do I even start?”
The truth is…
You don’t need to learn everything today.
Just learn one thing.
Plant one crop.
Gain one skill.
Then do it again next year.
That’s exactly how our little homestead grew into what it is today.
Want to Keep Learning?
These guides are just the beginning.
When you’re ready for the next step, here are a few places I’d love to help you continue your journey:
🌱 Read more gardening articles
📚 Check out my books
🍞 Learn sourdough
🥫 Master food preservation
🥕 Browse from-scratch recipes
👩🌾 Join my membership for step-by-step lessons
Then I’d finish with something like:
Growing food isn’t about perfection.
It’s about planting that first seed, learning something new each season, and realizing you’re capable of far more than you thought.
I’m glad you’re here.
Now…let’s go grow something.