Nicky and Dave Schauder are passionate about helping families grow their food, and medicine and find God in the garden
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Happy Early Summer, Reader! Our Spicy Mix and Sweet Mix microgreens sold out on the shelves at the Lovettsville Cooperative Grocery. And then Chef Alison from Between the Hills Kitchen & Catering took our spent microgreens trays and planted them in the garden bed right outside her front door. Nothing wasted. Everything continuing. He makes everything beautiful in its time. — Ecclesiastes 3:11 That is what this season feels like right now. Growth. Beautiful bounty. Good yummy food. Which brings me to Tuesday. How do I succession plant so I am always harvesting?This summer I keep hearing the same thing from gardeners: "My spring garden is winding down and I don't know what to plant next." That gap, when the lettuce bolts and nothing has filled in yet, is one of the most discouraging moments in the garden. It feels like you missed something. You didn't. You just haven't learned succession planting yet. On Tuesday June 16 at 7:30pm EST Dave and I are hosting a free live webinar: Succession Planting (for the Summer.) ​ We'll cover:
Can't make it live? Register anyway — we'll send the replay. Grow abundantly, |
Dave & Nicky Schauder
Nicky and Dave Schauder are passionate about helping families grow their food, and medicine and find God in the garden
Hello, Reader The sky turned a strange, hazy orange as we drove to Charlottesville this week. Not from anything happening here. Wildfire smoke, drifting all the way down from Canada, the same haze that's been sitting over Toronto, Boston, and New York this month. The kids kept asking why the sun looked like that. I didn't have a simple answer for them. So I looked up the actual numbers for the US. As of this morning, there are: 487 active wildfires burning across the US, covering 1.4 million...
Take time to draw your garden Inspired by Lara Call Gastinger's "Perpetual Journal Practice" and the works of Roger Tory Peterson, I started capturing my garden in this way. And I hope that despite the heat, and perhaps the mosquitoes this summer, we can all still find time to observe nature and perhaps draw it. Drawing forces you to truly look at something. And in a world of digital distraction, may very well be the last bastion of focus. That and prayer, I suppose. And there are...
When it gets hot Last week, our house hit 97°F. Not far from here, other parts of Northern Virginia were past 100°F. We had planned a family hike and despite weather warnings decided to drive to the Shenandoah mountains very early in the morning anyway, with lots of water packed. We did a loop trail about 4 miles and were delighted to find that just when we were at our sweatiest, a freshwater pool appeared, beckoning us to go for a mid-hike swim! This gave us just the refreshment we needed to...