Backyard Gardening 101

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Dec '24 •

Hey there! Welcome to the Backyard Gardening 101 Skool. The goal of this Skool is to help Gardeners and Homesteaders learn how to grow HUGE YIELDS in TINY SPACES in SHORT GROWING SEASONS! I'm Zach Buchel. I'm a market vegetable farmer in the frigid North (Cody, Wyoming). We currently grow on only 1/3 acre of land but produced $85,000 of food in 2024. Our season is 120 frost free days on average. I'd love to hear about your backgrounds and experiences! Call-to-Action, please comment below introducing yourself. Let us know: 1. Your name and where you grow. 2. What you've grown before and/or what you want to grow. 3. Show us a picture of your garden(s). See you in the comments! Here are some videos of my farm and no dig garden this year.

Feb 21 •

It is interesting to see some of you harvesting vegetables when we have 2-1/2 feet+ of snow up here in the frozen north! I’m jealous! LOL!

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Zach Buchel

Dec '24 •

General discussion

Where's everybody from?

Hey fam! thanks for joining this community. We're just getting started! Where is everyone from?

Jan 20 •

Here's how I buy seeds for the farm. I hope it takes some stress out of the equation for you. https://youtu.be/RpPwgwBSRxo

Feb 19 •

First, thanks, Zack for all the info you share. Because of you, I'm going to try to incorporate intense succession planting this year. I'm getting the urge to plant something even though my last frost isn't until around May 15th. My basement Kratky hydroponics is growing and I harvested a little lettuce the other day. Looking like broccoli and cauliflower isn't too far away. But tomatoes, strawberries, peppers and cantaloupes are real slow. Probably because they are heirlooms. This will be the first year I've tried growing in my unheated hoophouse. Spring gardening is a lot like baseball's spring training. Lots of hope and optimism.

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