Keep Growing:
Simple Ways to Extend Your Garden Season

with Stacey Murphy

This month’s Thriving Gardener: Monthly Garden Masterclass features Stacey Murphy, founder of Grow Your Own Vegetables.

Summer may be winding down, but your garden doesn’t have to!

In this live session, join garden expert Stacey Murphy for this month’s Thriving Gardener as we explore practical ways to extend your growing season and keep harvesting fresh food as temperatures begin to drop.

You’ll discover how a few simple strategies can help protect your plants from cold, make the most of the crops already growing, and even open up new possibilities for fall and winter harvests.

What You’ll Learn:

• Keep Your Garden Growing Longer: Discover simple ways to extend your harvest instead of letting the first chilly nights bring your garden to an early end.
• Protect Crops from the Cold: Learn practical strategies for giving plants extra protection as temperatures drop.
• Know What Can Keep Growing: Find out which vegetables are well suited to cooler weather—and may even improve when temperatures fall.
• Work With Your Local Conditions: Understand how frost dates, temperatures, and your own garden environment affect how long you can keep growing.
• Use Simple Season-Extension Tools: Explore approachable ways to create warmer, more protected growing spaces without needing a greenhouse.
• Make the Most of Fall: Learn how timing, planning, and a little protection can turn fall into a productive part of your gardening year.
• Create a Bridge to Winter Gardening: See how extending your fall garden can become the first step toward harvesting fresh food through winter and getting a jump on spring.

Your gardening year doesn’t have to end when summer does. Come discover just how much more growing (and harvesting!) may still be ahead.

Reserve your spot now and enjoy the flavor, magic, and abundance of winter gardening!

A master of innovative transition, Stacey is always thinking one step ahead of where industries are going: from managing billion dollar construction projects in NYC to writing children’s books that help kids love vegetables (My Dinosaur Ate My Broccoli). Her background as a visionary architect has led to breakthrough projects like BK Farmyards, a network of urban farmers transforming the local food system.

Stacey is a two time finalist for the Buckminster Fuller Challenge for social entrepreneurship. She is currently exploring new, futuristic business opportunities and ways to move gardening education into the new world.

Grow Your Own Vegetables teaches home gardeners how to grow an abundance of vegetables in their small backyard gardens. Through comprehensive courses, educational guides, and a supportive community, we help individuals reap the health benefits of organic gardening, ensure a sustainable and transparent food source, embrace eco-friendly practices, and gain self-sufficiency through reliable food production.