Nicky and Dave Schauder are passionate about helping families grow their food, and medicine and find God in the garden. Learn how to build your own permaculture garden Get our Guild Guide when you sign up!
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Hello, Reader, We have honey! The tomatoes are still green but growing really well right now. Yes, there are still things that are getting eaten by deer (like potatoes and every unprotected sunfower and zinnia on our property). But we've got beets coming in so fast we're having a beet salad every other day! This abundance is exactly the "problem" we set out to have when we started growing our own food eleven years ago. Dave and I did not know how to answer that question. We just knew we had to start somewhere. So my husband Dave and I started reading and watching and writing down everything about growing food — about soil, about observation, about working with the land instead of against it. About what permaculture actually is when you strip away the theory and get your hands in the dirt. We even got certified in Permaculture by two different teachers! More than a reference book, it serves as the workbook we wish we had in those early years to answer our ongoing questions. It is practical, honest, and designed to be used. Written in, returned to, carried into the garden. Don't forget that, on earth, every big thing has had a small beginning. What is born big is monstrous and dies. This book is composed of small steps to guide you along your own unique garden journey. We hope it brings you a bountiful life both the physical and spiritual. Get your copy here: Permaculture Gardening for Everyone at the Mother Earth News store or on Amazon. |
Dave & Nicky Schauder
Nicky and Dave Schauder are passionate about helping families grow their food, and medicine and find God in the garden. Learn how to build your own permaculture garden Get our Guild Guide when you sign up!
Dear Reader Why We Grow You may already know what first got us into growing food. Our first two children were born with food allergies. Ethan, our second, had eczema so severe we could see it on his face after every meal. 2 year old Ethan with eczema Dave and I started questioning everything. What was in the food we were buying? What were we actually feeding our children? We wanted to know where our food was coming from. And we wanted to be the ones growing it. We switched to organic. At the...
Dear Reader, Last February, one of the growers we mentor, Lindsey knocked her curtain rod loose in her kitchen. The rod that held her seedling trays in place. Every seedling she had started, lettuces, microgreens, pepper, went flying. Soil on the walls. Trays on the floor. An hour of cleanup. She could have cried. She almost did. But she didn't quit. By March she was filling raised beds with cardboard, straw, old leaves, and half-finished compost from a bin that had spent the winter getting —...
Hello, Reader, We are beyond grateful that right now on our farm, we're getting the following from our garden so far: 1 lb of beans/day 5 lbs of tomatoes/day cucumbers blackberries raspberries peppers corn small Japanese tiger melons and we're spoiled for herbs on top of it. Pro-tip: Harvest tomatoes at first blush. They tend to produce more that way. I was out weighing today's tomato harvest from our research beds, where we've been comparing compost tea, organic fertilizer, and an untreated...