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Learn to Grow Your Own Food

Practical gardening lessons, crop guides, seasonal advice, and free resources to help you grow more food with 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.

Let’s Get Started

Growing food isn’t about being perfect—it’s about learning as you go. Choose the gardening skill that fits where you are today and keep building confidence one season at a time.

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.

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.

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.