GROW YOUR OWN FOOD
Grow Food. Build Confidence.
Whether you’re planting your very first tomato or growing enough food to fill your pantry, you’ll find practical gardening lessons, crop guides, videos, and free resources based on over 20 years of growing food in Michigan.
Choose the skill you need right now. You can come back and learn the rest when the garden decides to humble you again.
What Are You Growing?
Choose a crop to find planting, growing, harvesting, preserving, and kitchen advice—all in one place.
Learn How to Grow Bigger, Better Garlic
From choosing seed garlic and planting at the right time to cutting scapes, harvesting, curing, and saving your best bulbs—I’ll walk you through the entire process.
This complete lesson includes the video presentation and workbook so you can follow each step from planting through harvest.
Take the Garden from Seed to Plate
My book, Seed to Plate, brings together the full journey—planning, growing, harvesting, preserving, and cooking the food you raise.
It was written for real home gardeners, especially those working with Midwest weather, short growing seasons, limited time, and families who want to put homegrown food on the table.
Latest from the Garden
Advice from a Garden That Actually Feeds a Family
I’m not sharing gardening advice from a perfectly staged backyard or repeating things I read in another gardening book.
These lessons come from more than 20 years of planting, experimenting, failing, adjusting, harvesting, preserving, and figuring out how to grow a meaningful amount of food for my own family.
Some years the garden is beautiful.
Some years the potatoes are flattened by a storm, the weeds are plotting a hostile takeover, and something eats the broccoli.
That’s real gardening—and you can still grow a tremendous amount of food.
You Don’t Have to Grow Everything. Just Start Growing Something.
Choose one crop. Learn one skill. Build one garden bed.
Every season teaches you something—and every harvest brings you one step closer to putting more homegrown food on your family’s table.