From the ground to the table
One loop: the garden feeds the kitchen, the kitchen feeds the compost, the compost feeds the garden. Each manual stands alone, and together they stop you buying what you already grew.
Read it as a loop, joining at whatever point your season is already at. Each step below names the one chapter to open first.
Canning and preserving. Pressure canning and fermentation carry safety rules we have not written up yet, so this route stops at the refrigerator.
The route
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Before you dig anything
Vegetable Gardening
Size the garden to the hours you actually have. The commonest first-year mistake is a bed twice the size of the time available to tend it.
Open atSize Your First Vegetable Garden to the Time You Have
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The same weekend
Composting
Choose the method that fits your space before you have a full bucket of scraps and nowhere to put them.
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As the season starts
Vegetable Gardening
Planting dates worked back from your own frost dates, so the plan matches your yard instead of the back of a seed packet.
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Once the kitchen bin fills
Composting
The countertop container, the fruit flies, and what to do if you have no yard at all.
Open atKitchen Compost Container, Fruit Flies and Drop-Off Sites
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When things start coming in
Meal Planning
Plan the week from what you already have, which in August is the only way a garden does not quietly go to waste.
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At the end of the row
Vegetable Gardening
When to pick each thing, and how long it keeps once you have.
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And then the cooking
Everyday Cooking Coming soon
What to do with eleven pounds of zucchini and no recipe.
Open atWe will name the chapter here when the manual is published.
Everything here is free, needs no account, and can be opened at any chapter. The other routes · all the manuals.