🌸 What the French Can Teach Us About Growing Food


Good morning, Reader!

While we didn’t get to host our French Potager Garden Workshop at Bethany Farm this spring due to few RSVPs, preparing for it taught us so much. 🌿

The good news? One of our amazing GIY members, Camille, has a real-life potager right in her backyard—and she's generously offered to host an event there in the future! We'll be sure to share more as those plans come together and hope that if you are local, Reader, you can plan to come and visit.
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In the meantime, if you’d like to bring a bit of that timeless French beauty to your own garden, we've put together a special new blog post just for you.

🪴 In it, you’ll learn:
✔️ How to combine flowers, herbs, and vegetables for maximum harvest and beauty
✔️ The design principles the French use to make gardens both functional and poetic
✔️ How smart layouts lead to healthier, easier-to-manage gardens

🌿 Whether you have a sprawling yard or a sunny little patio, a potager garden can help you grow more food—with less stress and a lot more joy.

👉 Read the blog & watch the video here​
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We hope it inspires you to design a garden that’s beautiful, bountiful, and uniquely yours!

Grow abundantly,
🌿 Nicky & Dave

P.S. If you're ready to plan your own dream garden with guidance, the GIY Core Course is open for enrollment!
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It’s a full, self-paced journey from seed to harvest—designed to help you grow successfully on your schedule.
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👉 Learn more about the GIY Core Course here​

Dave & Nicky Schauder

Nicky and Dave Schauder are passionate about helping families grow their food, and medicine and find God in the garden

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