Home Gardener’s
Weekly
Issue
No. 88
August
16, 2024
Enjoy Your Harvest Workshop Series
Airing September 4-6, 2024
Imagine meals full of fresh, flavorful, and nutrient-rich produce, all while significantly reducing your grocery costs. That’s what the Enjoy Your Harvest Workshop Series can do for you.
The fresh food event of the summer is almost here!
By joining the free Enjoy Your Harvest Workshop Series, you’ll learn to:
• Save Money: Reduce your grocery bills using fresh fruits, vegetables, and herbs—whether grown yourself or from your local farmers market.
• Boost Flavor: Discover the unmatched taste that homegrown produce and conscious ingredient selection can provide
• Enhance Nutrition: Enjoy the benefits of fresh, nutrient-dense foods that contribute to your vitality and well-being.
The Enjoy Your Harvest Workshop Series is designed to inspire you with new culinary garden-fresh creations and provide you with practical tips and techniques for utilizing and preserving your own food.
Follow along with fresh food experts for some new and exciting ways to incorporate fresh vegetables, fruits, herbs—and even flowers!—into your meals. From garden to table, you’ll be guided every step of the way.
[Video] 3 Vegetables for Busy Gardeners
Want fresh greens but don’t think you have the time? In this week’s video highlight, learn about three vegetables that are super easy to grow as well as super flavorful. These vegetables not only grow easily, but they grow well in almost any environment! Check out the video and consider adding these to your next garden.
Weekly Garden Tip:
While the primary purpose of curing is to preserve produce, it can also affect the nutritional content. In some cases, curing can increase certain nutrients, like beta-carotene levels in sweet potatoes. When curing, the key is to keep consistent conditions. To avoid stress on the produce that can lead to spoilage, maintain consistent environmental conditions during the curing process.
FREE Resource:
Seed to Harvest: Growing Bulbing Onions
We’ve all heard the old saying, “an apple a day keeps the doctor away,” but what about an onion a day? Check out this informative guide on successfully growing bulbing onions and you can report back to us what benefits you find from growing and enjoying your own fresh onions!
The Garden Freedom Micro Course is about making YOUR garden productive, and your time in the garden FUN!!
The course includes videos and resources so you can:
✅ Create your garden budget
✅ Save money and get a good return on your investment
✅ Choose the right crops for your climate
✅ Manage your time in the garden
✅ Find growing space you might not even know you have!
✅ Get creative, even when your space isn’t “ideal”
Plant Based Coaching
Do you want to help people get and stay healthy with plant-based foods AND make a great living while changing the world?
Studies show that half of all Americans want to eat more plant-based foods. But with the surge of interest comes a surge of misinformation and challenges. This is where trained, knowledgeable coaches (like you could be!) step in, guiding people through their plant-based journeys effectively and healthfully. As millions adopt this lifestyle, the demand for expert coaches is skyrocketing.
Our friends Ocean Robbins and the Food Revolution Network have built a million-member movement for those who are dedicated to healthy, ethical, and sustainable food for all. In the upcoming LIVE three-part training experience called the Plant-Based Coaching Workshop: The Recipe for Real and Lasting Change, you’ll get expert insight into how to help people prevent diseases and boost energy with a plant-based diet.
In this transformative training, you’ll discover:
• The science behind life-extending foods and how they combat major health issues.
• Strategies to secure your first clients or land a top-tier job using your newfound expertise.
• The latest coaching breakthroughs to help clients quickly and sustainably adopt healthier habits.
• How to maximize the impact you have on your community, family, country, or planet.
It all kicks off Friday, August 23.
📝 BLOG
Perfecting Vegetable Preservation for Nutrition and Flavor
Every vegetable has specific preservation methods that work well, while others may not give you the desired results. This is why expert food preservationists tailor the preservation methods to each type of vegetable so that freshness and flavor are, well, preserved in the end result.
Dear Arti:
Question: How do I keep stray cats and birds away? – Karen
Answer: Hi Karen,
The only for sure way to keep small animals out of the garden is to enclose it entirely. This can be pretty costly! Many people try luring them away, planting things away from the garden that are more enticing. So for cats, you might plant some catmint away from the garden in a spot with soft soil that invites them to use that area as a litter box instead. For birds, it might be planting a sweet abundant berry that the bird loves far away from your garden.
You can also try bird netting to keep the birds away and automatic motion sensor sprinklers to keep the cats from your harvest so long as the water stream doesn’t hit your plants.
This costs less than enclosing your garden but the netting is a bit more time consuming and the sprinklers are not a guaranteed way.
Long term, it will be less stress and time to enclose the garden.
🏡 In the GYOV Garden
GYOV CEO and Lifestyle Gardener Denise Beins has been seeing new growth in leaps and bounds this August! Her bush beans are thriving, and the kale is coming on strong! She is ready to explore creative ways to utilize her kale such as making kale powder she can use year round or trying a new kale salad recipe.
Fresh Food Events for You!
FREE EVENT
Enjoy Your Harvest
3-Day Workshop Series
WHO: Grow Your Own Vegetables
WHEN: September 4-6, 2024
WHAT: Enjoy Your Harvest is a brand new event here at Grow Your Own Vegetables featuring visionary fresh foodies coming together to support growers and fresh food enthusiasts alike.
During this event, you’ll discover how to:
• Support Gut Health: A healthy digestive system plus improved gut microbiome
• Enhance Flavor: Vibrant, natural flavors that elevate your dishes
• Boost Nutrient Intake: Fresh, nutrient-rich produce at its peak
• Improve Health: Increased vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants
• Promote Sustainability: Reliance on commercial agriculture reduced
• Foster Creativity: Culinary creativity with a variety of fresh and preserved ingredients
• Provide Year-Round Access: The taste of summer even in winter
• Encourage Healthy Eating: More accessible and appealing nutritious meals
Join us to be inspired with new ways to enjoy meals prepared with fresh produce! Enjoy Your Harvest is here to support our global community on their journey to a healthy, fresh food lifestyle.
WHAT’S HAPPENING IN HARVEST CLUB
This coming Monday, we’re releasing your Broccoli Growing Guide. Learn to grow, nurture, harvest, and store your broccoli. Plus!
Get a special GYOV recipe featuring broccoli. Find it on your Growing Guide Dashboard HERE.
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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