Nicky and Dave Schauder are passionate about helping families grow their food, and medicine and find God in the garden
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Hey Reader, Just a quick heads-up — we're going live tonight at 7:30 PM ET for Starting Your Summer Beds, and I wanted to make sure you saw this because we are so excited to show you how to plan your summer beds while also showing off our SAGE App's Crop Planner and Guild Builder! Here are a few sneak peak screenshots into how it (and this webinar) can help you select the plants that go into your summer beds) If you've been looking at your garden and thinking "I missed the window," you haven't. This is actually the perfect time to start. Most summer crops are warm-season plants that want to go in the ground right now, not weeks ago. Tonight we'll walk through: ✅ What to plant this week (and what you can wait on) ✅ How to read your climate window so nothing goes to waste ✅ The simple planning method that keeps you harvesting well into fall (whether you use SAGE or not) It's free, it's 45 minutes, and you'll leave with an actual plan. That's our goal! Tuesday, April 21 ·
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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, 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. Back then, we had a tiny suburban backyard, six kids, a health crisis, and...
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...