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 ·
Hope to see you tonight (or if not, you can register anyway and catch the replay) |
Dave & Nicky Schauder
Nicky and Dave Schauder are passionate about helping families grow their food, and medicine and find God in the garden
Dear Reader,Just wanted to celebrate Wilma from Washington, a member of our GIY Community. Just look at her beautiful lettuce bed! Wilma's transplanted lettuces growing beautifully with rosemary! Meanwhile, at Bethany Farm, every day has been planting day for our family. As soon as the kids get off school, we do a nature walk/run at a nearby trail. My PlantNet app ID-ed this as "Dames rocket" a beautiful purple brassica that peppers the trail we run. And then head home where I unplug the wifi...
Hey, Reader!I finally planted the remaining potatoes this week! Rows of them, in what we in permaculture call Zone 1, the area closest to your home, the kitchen garden. And every time we put something in the ground in April, I think about the invisible work happening beneath the surface, the thing no one talks about at the garden center, the thing that determines whether your plants thrive or just survive. The life in the soil. Unbeknownst to me for many years, the life in the soil actually...
Hey Reader, This time of year, Bethany Farm is loud. A truck is dropping off mulch for our muddy paths. Dave is hauling fencing materials up the steep slope. The boys are catching the baby chickens who don't want to go back into their coop. I'm somewhere in the middle of double-digging a bed I've been trying to finish for two weeks, getting interrupted every twenty minutes by dinner, something wonderful or urgent Not so tidy in April but very much alive! And on May 16th and 17th, we're...