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Grow Your Own Food Resource

Tired of rising grocery prices? These are 7 foods we grow enough of to never purchase from the store. Learn how to begin growing your own groceries! Love the free resource guide.

Growing my own food and having a renewable food source for my family is something I'm really passionate about. We've been saving and growing our own strain of heirloom green beans and a shelled bean for over a hundred years. It's a heritage and tradition I want to see every home take place in and learn about. My life is more enriched for it, not to mention my health and pocket book.

I grew up growing a garden, raising livestock, and canning, but I realize many of you didn't or want to learn more about how to do it. It might seem overwhelming. I've created a downloadable planting sheet to help you figure out which plants need to be started indoors or purchased as seedlings, which ones should be direct sown, when to plant them, how many days to harvest, with a few other columns to have you set up for success.

I've also included links to tutorials for planting, growing, and caring for most of the specific plants. It's all tailored to where you live by your first and last frost date, so you'll customize it for your specific area.

Get your copy here–> Customized Planting Chart

When it comes to growing your own food the best place to start is planning to grow what you eat and your family will use. Too many get enamored with large gardens and beautiful seed packets. I walk you through how to plan your best garden and harvest ever here.

Now that your garden is planned you'll want to focus on seed starting the right way in my Ultimate Seed Starting Guide- Planning, Starting & Mistakes to Avoid Seed starting is a great way to save money and receive an extended harvest, but only if you avoid these critical and often common seed starting mistakes.

Close-up of green seedling growing out of soil
Learn how to save your garden seed. There's nothing like never having to buy seed again and upping your self-reliance and preparedness level. Great tips, her family has been saving several strains of seed for over 100 years.

Seed Saving- How to Save Garden Seed

10 Easy Steps to Grow Your Own Food

10 Easy Steps to Grow Your Own Food

Want a larger harvest of blueberries? Learn how to prune blueberry plants for a larger harvest. Great step by step tutorial, plus love her tips for what to add to the soil. If you want to put in blueberries or already have them, you need to read this tutorial now.

How to Prune Blueberries for a Larger Harvest

How to prune tomatoes for the best harvest ever. Love these tips on how to get more yield from your plants.

How to Prune Tomatoes for a Better Harvest

Concerned about our modern food system and the growing cost? Here's 5 tips to what it really takes to raise your own livestock and if it's for you. Read now if you've ever wanted to raise your own food.

5 Tips to Raising Livestock 

How to plant and grow beets, soil type, planting tips, and why your beets won't grow if you don't do this crucial step

How to Plant and Grow Beets

and my favorite Chocolate Beet Cake ya'll.

How to Plant and Grow Potatoes www.melissaknorris.com

How to Plant Potatoes

Learn how to grow fruit trees. If you ever wanted to grow your own food you'll need these tips to avoid costly mistakes. Learn which varieties you need and how to know which kind is right for your area.

How to Plant and Grow Fruit Trees

Ultimate Home Food Resource Guide 112+ ways to preserve food at home

We've got literally tons of tutorials on preserving food at home, plus our Ultimate Home Food Preservation Guide.

This page is intended for those folks who are signed up for our webinar and/or a newsletter subscriber. We like to put together fun useful things like this for our loyal readers. And if you're not, we'd love to have you become one of them, here's the link to sign up and also claim our two other freebies!


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Immunity for Polluters: How New Laws Threaten Your Soil & Food Supply

Homestead Security: Why Community May Be Your Best Defense

Farm Dog Breeds (Which is Best for You?)

Time Spent to Grow a Year’s Worth of Food

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