Home Gardener’s
Weekly
Issue
No. 133
July
18, 2025
5 Ingredients or Less
25 Easy, Delicious + Ready-in-Minutes Plant-Based Recipes
After learning how to grow your own superfoods during the Summit, our friend Brian Vaszily just released a brand-new recipe book: 5 INGREDIENTS OR LESS: 25 Easy, Delicious, + Ready-In-Minutes Plant-Based Recipes.
These nutritious recipes are just what you need to bring your harvest to the table! Inside, you’ll discover satisfying breakfasts, lunches, dinners, snacks, and desserts that:
✅ Use just 5 ingredients or less
✅ Take 30 minutes or less to make
✅ Are 100% plant-based (with many gluten-free options!)
✅ Are packed with flavor—no fuss, no compromise
You don’t need complicated recipes or pricey ingredients to eat well and feel your best. Get simple, budget-friendly recipes like Creamy Coconut Caramel Overnight Oats, Spicy + Tangy Kimchi Pancakes, Miso Lime Glazed Corn on the Cob, Lemon and Pistachio Pudding and more!
Plus, when you grab the book, you’ll also get free access to the upcoming online event, LET’S GET PERSONAL: The ULTIMATE Healthy Aging and Longevity Summit!
Weekly Garden Tip
If you feel like you don’t have enough time for your garden, start with a practice of imagining what it would feel like if you had all the time you needed. It might sound a bit silly, but let’s face it, the Wright brothers didn’t create their plane by NOT imagining air flight was possible. So when your head hits the pillow every night, ask yourself what it would feel like if I had all the time I needed. Just start there.
Once you open to the possibility that you can have enough time, you might find your creativity kicks in and gives you ideas for how to be more efficient, cut back, or other strategies that can create more time for your gardening journey.
Free Resource
In this garden guide, you learn the eight main categories of gardening and how to use the 8 categories to move through garden challenges with less stress and more ease with a list of questions to ask that can help you solve many of the most common garden challenges.
Get the guide and done-for-you templates so you can troubleshoot garden obstacles and take your garden understanding to new heights!
↓ A Sneak Peak Inside the Course Portal!
Lesson 1: Food Safety First!
Lesson 3: Fruits, Jams, & Chutneys
Lesson 2: Lacto-Ferment
Lesson 4: Making Vinegars
Fermented foods are delicious, nutritious, and full of healthy probiotics, bacteria, and enzymes.
They aren’t just good for the gut – they can help improve our health in numerous ways!
Get started fermenting your harvests today!
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Get your zucchini recipes here! Because when zucchinis come in, boy do they ever! You’ll start with a few, eager to harvest and enjoy them. But pretty soon they are coming in faster than you can eat them! Now all of a sudden you feel as though you wouldn’t mind if you never ate one again. Get the recipes to help keep your zucchini harvest interesting.
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Master Your Garden with the Circle of Awesome
🌿 Master Your Garden with the Circle of Awesome — Ready to take your gardening skills to the next level? This guide introduces you to the Circle of Awesome, a simple yet powerful system that helps you rotate through key gardening elements like climate, soil, compost, and more. Learn how each step builds on the next to create a thriving, healthy garden.
Dive in now and start mastering your garden!
What: ENCORE!!! Superfood Garden Summit
Who: Grow Your Own Vegetables
When: Starting now through July 20, 2025
The response to the Summit has been extraordinary. Thousands of people from six continents are more excited than ever before to take a stand for their health… to grow fresh, organic food right at home and enjoy a higher quality of life.
Ready to get inspired to create that garden dream? The Superfood Garden Summit can help!
“I can’t believe I never knew of you guys, I feel like I’ve come home” – Lilly M.
“This is my first time in this event and yes it is fantastic!” – Cheryl A.
“Omgoodness this is AWESOME. Love this!” – Diana
“Inspired is the understatement of the day. WOW, my heart & mind are spinning!” – Mark
“These presentations have re-energized my desire to grow and share into the next level, so exciting.” – Mary
Did you miss the big event? Or do you want to hear it all again? Or share something you learned with a loved one?
If so, we have great news! We are bringing back an encore this weekend, you can enjoy all the 2025 Superfood Garden Summit presentations for no charge… during the 2-Day Encore.
Ocean Robbins: Top 5 Healthiest Vegetables You Can Easily Grow
Stacey Murphy: Turn Your Garden Into Income
Michael Kilpatrick: Unusual Super Fruits for Your Garden
Nathan Crane: The Top Cancer Fighting Foods Everyone Should Be Growing
Sajah Popham: Gardening for Your Digestive Health
Matt Powers: Healthy Foods Need Healthy Soil
Jason Matyas: Two Simple Methods to Grow More Superfoods
Rob Herring: We Are Nature
Kami McBride: Herbal Green Smoothies for Your Vitality
Greg Peterson: Permaculture Explained: Nature Will Always Win
Jeffrey Pierce: Growing Food to Improve Your Health
John Kohler: Gardening For Life
+++ And More!
But hurry, it’s only available this weekend.
What: Let’s Get Personal: The Ultimate Healthy Aging and Longevity Summit
Who: Brian Vaszlly, The Art of Anti-Aging
When: July 23-29, 2025
Join Let’s Get Personal: The Ultimate Healthy Aging & Longevity Summit—a brand-new, free online event featuring 22 world-renowned doctors and researchers who are sharing the most powerful, evidence-based (and often little-known) steps they personally take to boost energy, prevent disease, and live well into old age.
You’ll discover insider tips on nutrition, fitness, sleep, and emotional well-being—from the co-founder of Whole Foods to top anti-aging experts. Hosted by Brian Vaszily, this summit offers life-changing insights to help you thrive now and in the years to come.
WHAT’S HAPPENING IN HARVEST CLUB
Dear Arti:
Question: We have gardened about 2,500 sq. ft. organically for over 30 years (plant composting, vermiculture for worm compost, mulching, cover cropping, no chemical fertilizers, insecticides or herbicides). I am careful not to use contaminated mulch or compost– we make our own with known materials. Several years ago (6?), we began having a problem with moles and voles, and since then we have hardly seen any earthworms. Over the past three years we have caught about 20 moles, and I know there are still a few on the loose. We have lots of organic matter in the soil, and I would think we should have lots of earthworms, but we have maybe 1 or 2 per square yard at the most.
Can moles really clean out a garden of earthworms?
Is there any other reason for maybe why we have so few earthworms? (I’m wondering if there is something new that is taking out the earthworm population?)
Do you have any recommendations for eliminating moles and voles? replenishing earthworms? (We are already using traps and poisonous “worms” for moles.)
Answer: Hi Marlene,
Yes, the moles will eat earthworms. While one might think that is a serious problem, it’s actually quite possibly a blessing, especially where you live. Here’s why:
First off, you can absolutely have a healthy garden without earthworms; they aren’t a requirement for healthy soil. Also, the majority of earthworms in Indiana (and most of the United States) are not native, so their existence isn’t necessary for the health of the garden or the surrounding ecosystem.
Further, the north is currently under attack by asian jumping worms. These guys are DECIMATING gardens, farms, and native ecosystems across the US and in Canada. The reason these invasive asian species are so dangerous to the land is that they are such voracious eaters that they consume way more matter than that which our native plants produce. The result is entire land areas of nothing but worm castings, which burn the native plants.
So, moles might possibly be able to keep these worms from taking over your land so you can keep your garden. And moles will also take care of other insects like grubs, as well, keeping many pest species at bay.
That’s just my thought on the matter, Marlene! You might actually consider keeping the moles around to avoid future problems.
Freshly harvested garlic coming in hot!🧄
GYOV CEO Denise and her husband just harvested a beautiful batch remarking, “…there’s just nothing quite like the aroma of freshly harvested garlic. It’s a flavorful reminder of all the goodness to come—roasted, sautéed, and added to just about everything. We’re excited to enjoy the rich, homegrown taste in our meals all year long!”
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