🎯 If You Aim at Nothing, You’ll Hit It Every Time A great season starts with a plan. One of the biggest game-changers on the farm isn’t a new tool, a bigger greenhouse, or even better soil — it’s planning. Whether you’re taking notes from last season to tweak your systems or starting completely from scratch, having a clear plan turns chaos into confidence. Here’s where to start 👇 1. Know your space. How much ground, bed space, or container space do you actually have to work with? This determines everything that follows. 2. Build your crop plan.Decide what you want to grow and how much of it. Be realistic — growing 100 tomato plants is great until you realize you only have room for 50. 3. Decide how each crop begins.Are you starting from seed, buying in transplants, or direct seeding? That choice affects both timing and workflow. 4. Map your timeline.Once you know what you’re growing, you can figure out when to start seeds, where they’ll grow, and how many transplants to source or start. 5. Dial in spacing.Proper spacing makes all the difference — for plant health, yield, and ease of harvest. We’ll dig into spacing details soon, because this one factor can make or break your efficiency. Planning might not feel glamorous, but it’s the foundation of a smooth, successful, and less stressful season. Every hour you spend mapping things out now saves you five hours of scrambling later. So — what’s your plan aiming at this season? 🌱

How Much Should You Grow? How much to grow really depends on what you’re looking for. Are you growing just for your family? Selling at a market? Supplying restaurants or a CSA? Each goal will completely change your numbers. The best place to start is by looking at the space you have to work with. From there, you can figure out what’s realistic and what your garden (or farm) can produce. For example: - Want to grow enough tomatoes to make sauce all winter? - Hoping to have garlic to last until next spring? - Trying to plan weekly harvests for a CSA? Each of those requires a different scale and strategy. Because there’s so much nuance to it — soil health, spacing, succession timing, storage — I like to help people with this on a more individual basis. Everyone’s situation is unique, and your plan should reflect your goals. If you’d like help figuring out how many tomato plants your family really needs or how much garlic to plant to last the winter, I can help walk you through it!

I was getting ready to make lunch today and decided to crack open a jar of stewed San Marzano from the summertime. Having some of our bounty preserved and available in the winter months feels like SUCH a gift! Things we are able to reliably preserve for use during winter that are SHELF stable include: Stewed tomatoes Pickled Green Beans Pickled Cucumbers Pickled Jalapeno Pickled Habanada really anything pickled but this is a great beginner list. If your considering pickling or preserving we can adjust your quantities for abundance for off season use!

If you’re new, you don’t need to read everything or “catch up.” This space is meant to support you as questions come up throughout the season. Feel free to jump right in: - Ask a question - Read through ongoing discussions - Or just quietly learn from others - There’s no pressure to post, no expectation of perfection, and no “right” level of experience here. Gardening is messy by nature — that’s part of the process (and fun!) I’ll be sharing guidance based on what’s happening in real time on the farm and responding to questions as they come up. I’m so glad you’re here, community is everything and it's one of my favorite parts of growing. If you want to introduce yourself we would love to hear where your from, what your growing experience is (if any), and what your hoping to get out of this space.