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No. 70
April
5, 2024
The Heart of Nature
The Heart of Nature Summit is a 7-day journey beginning April 16th to restore balance to your life. As a gardener, you are very aware of how important nature is to your garden by providing sun and rain and beneficials for your plants to grow into the tasty vegetables that you love. This summit goes a step further by sharing how living harmoniously with nature each and every day improves EVERY aspect of your life!
Featuring an extraordinary lineup of experts and nature lovers, the summit shares how to:
💚 Embrace Healing and Resilience
💚 Navigate Environmental Grief
💚 Connect with Your Inner Strength
💚 Revitalize Ancient Wisdom
💚 Co-Create Sustainable Visions
💚 Celebrate Earth Day with Purpose
If you’re ready to start living with more joy and you want to experience how nature can help improve every area of your life, then sign up for your free ticket for the Heart of Nature Summit today.
🌱 Learn How to Preserve Your Harvest! 🌱
It’s time to talk about preserving.
Wait? What? Are you thinking, “I’m just starting my garden. I won’t be preserving my harvest for months!”
NOW is the perfect time to plan what you are going to preserve for the winter in order to ensure that you grow plenty of your vegetables to have fresh food all year-round.
Registration for our Preserve & Store the Vegetable Harvest course is now open—and at a special savings! Through Monday, April 8th at 11:59pm Pacific Time, this essential course is being offered to the Grow Your Own Vegetables Community at a $100 savings! 💰
This course features the 7-Step Harvest-Into-Meals System that takes advantage of every last fresh morsel that comes out of your garden…or farmers market…or even the grocery store. Your kitchen will be stocked with staples made from ingredients that you know and trust.
Two great benefits of preserving your harvest each year:
1. Saving money on your grocery bill
2. Making fewer trips to the grocery store
That means you save TIME and MONEY by following this step-by-step food preservation system.
And you’ll also save time and money by buying the Preserve & Store the Vegetable Harvest course right now because you save $100 off the normal price AND you do not have to go down the time-draining Google rabbit hole trying to find all the info you need when you are ready to preserve your vegetable goodies at the end of the season. All the info you need will be in one place—inside this course!
Don’t wait—click the button to learn more about the course and take advantage of the special price today!
📝 BLOG
5 Methods to Preserve Vegetables at Home
There are many options to preserve the tasty vegetables that you grow. This week’s featured blog article introduces several different options so that you can discover which one may be best for you!
✔️ Dehydrating
✔️ Freezing
✔️ Lacto-Fermentation
✔️ Canning
Video Tutorial: Soil Block Recipe!
In this week’s video, GYOV CEO and Lifestyle Gardener Denise Beins demonstrates and shares the recipe that she uses to make her soil blocks.
🪴 3 parts seedling mix
🪴 3 parts compost
🪴 2 parts coco coir
🪴 1 part perlite
Add 1:3 ratio of water to the above ingredients until the soil texture makes a clump when squeezed by hand. Adjust ratios as needed.
Weekly Garden Tip
If it’s your first time soil blocking, leave a few extra weeks for experimentation. Soil blocking can be a bit tricky to get just right when you’re first starting out. Leaving yourself extra time will help you avoid falling behind your planting schedule.
Free Resource
Your Checklist to Successful Vegetable & Herb Growing
Trying to decide where you want to place your garden? This week’s Free Resource offers 5 Keys to Finding the Right Garden Space.
The eGuide teaches you how to work WITH Mother Nature when picking the perfect spot.
Dear Arti:
Question: I’m dealing with neighbors using poisons near my edible garden. – K.P.
Answer: Hi, K.P.,
This can be one of the most challenging obstacles in gardening. If your neighbors are spraying, the first thing you want to do is reach out to your neighbors.
You want to know what exact chemicals they are spraying and what their schedule is like. Let them know your goals of organic clean gardening and why it’s important to you.
Be sure to approach the situation in a manner that isn’t trying to control your neighbors choices. Your goal is to find out information here.
Equally important is to find out why they’re spraying. What are their goals, and why is it important to them? Once you have more information, you can explore what might be the best way to proceed.
Maybe they just can’t stand the look of dandelions in their yard. If you offered to pull them for your neighbor on a schedule, they might agree to stop spraying. Or maybe they’re spraying a microorganism biocide that’s actually safe. Or maybe it is a chemical, but you research an alternative for them to try and offer to pay for the first round.
It’s not always easy, but the most important thing here is to build good relationships with your neighbors. If you don’t, you’ll never know if you could have had a relationship in the future that helped your neighbor understand the dangers that could help protect you AND them!
🏡 In the GYOV Garden
GYOV CEO and Lifestyle Gardener Denise Beins started seeds indoors using the soil blocking method. They are already so happy!
Garden Events for You!
WHAT’S HAPPENING IN HARVEST CLUB
Next Garden Jam LIVE Q&A happening Monday, April 8th, where Harvest Club Members get LIVE support for all their garden questions to help YOU get more out of YOUR garden.
Link to join will be emailed to Harvest Club members.
NON-Harvest Club Members: Wanna see what LIVE Q&A’s are like? Click Here and watch our March 25th, 2024 GYOV LIVE Q&A.
Not a member of our garden membership Harvest Club? You can get a one-time complimentary two month membership with any of our courses. Harvest Club has tons of resources to help you thrive. Plus, you get access to ongoing garden support through email. Learn more here.
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