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🥬 Kitchen gardens, vertical growing and old school gardening

Published about 2 hours ago • 1 min read • Gardening

Hey friend,

As we learned over the years, June's a good time to make every growing space work harder.

Start close to the kitchen, grow upward where you can and look ahead to the next round of summer tasks that will come in July.

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Saturday Reads

Here are a few good reads to help you grow more to feed your family, plus two new posts I managed to get up on the site this week.

The first is a solar system stress-test guide. And the second is a guide to getting home insurance for off grid properties.

These were both topics I didn't know anything about when we moved off the grid in 2013, and I really wish I had done my research ahead of time.

What's a Kitchen Garden?

Grow useful food close to the kitchen.

Vertical Garden Basics

Use vertical space to grow more food.

Old-School Gardening

27 Time-tested methods Grandma loved

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Until next time,

Sarita

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