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DIY Zero Waste Kit​

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DIY Zero Waste Kit - The Urban Farm

DIY Zero Waste Kit By Tayler Jenkins As the immense amount of waste generated by modern society becomes an increasingly alarming and urgent issue, many of us ponder what we […]
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Jimi, the key to a thriving winter garden isn’t just soil or seeds — it’s your mindset! 😌 Your mindset shapes your experience (and success) every step of the way.

That’s why we’re inviting you to the 5-Day Fantastical Winter Garden Adventure — no fee to attend! You’ll learn how your mindset affects your garden and your results. It starts today!

>>> Access the Fantastical Winter Garden Adventure ❄️

Here’s a glimpse of what’s coming:

🎥 Day 1 – Supercalifragilistic Seeds: Avoid the 5 things that can kill your garden
🎥 Day 2 – Wonderful Water: Harness the magic of water and positivity
🎥 Day 3 – Magic Micro-Heroes: Discover the helpers in your soil that boost growth
🎥 Day 4 – Be-You-Tiful You: Nurture yourself and your garden for lasting results
🎥 Day 5 – Loopty-Loos: Deepen your connection with nature and embark on your winter garden adventure

Just 30 minutes a day is all it takes — and you can fit it into your schedule whenever it works best.

>>> Your 5-Day Fantastical Winter Garden Adventure awaits! ❄️

Register now and get instant access to today’s video. It only takes a few seconds to get started! Join us for this magical journey and start growing fresh greens all year long!

🌱 Grow Your Own Vegetables Team 🌱
 
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Here ya go, Jimi!

Click below to download the complimentary eGuide you requested.

3D Image of Download: Edible Plants for Beneficials

>>> Click here for your copy of Edible Flowers for Beneficials <<<


When it comes to protecting your garden, you want the right garden allies without losing any garden space!

Inside the Edible Flowers for Beneficials eGuide, you’ll learn:

🐞 8 keys to successfully encourage beneficials to your garden
🦋 The amount of garden space that should consist of beneficial plants
🐝 30+ edible plants to add to your garden that beneficials love

You want your garden to be strong and resilient to get the healthiest food possible with the least amount of effort. And to do that, you need to attract beneficials to help you manage your garden.

But why sacrifice your harvests when you can plant for both you and the beneficials?

As you partner with nature correctly and deepen your relationship, you’ll find nature can do most of the garden work for you.

To your thriving garden!

🌱 Grow Your Own Vegetables Team 🌱
 
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Day 2 of the Fantastical Winter Garden Adventure is here!

Day 2: Wonderful water

Today’s theme is Wonderful Water!

Water makes up 71% of the earth’s surface and 60% of our bodies. It is an important and powerful thing! Water can heal communities or devastate them.

One movie that represents this duality beautifully is Frozen ❄️. Elsa’s powers can either heal or destroy depending on if she acts out of love or fear.

It’s the same way with your garden. You can either cultivate beautiful, loving energy for your seeds OR your fear can leave your seeds hanging out to dry!

Today, we will learn about how to use water to rinse and prepare your seeds, what to do if your tap water is hard, soft, or anything in between, and much more!

In today’s adventure, we will cover:

🪄 The magic of water
💧 The importance of watering your magical seed
🥼 An experiment by a Japanese scientist that will change the way you water
🧘 Having a positive mindset and blessing your water
❄️ Experimenting with winter gardening

>>> Watch now 💦 Wonderful Water!

After watching today’s episode on Wonderful Water - please share your takeaway from Day 2 here with fellow adventurers!

The adventure continues!

🌱 The Grow Your Own Vegetables Team 🌱

PS - There have been a few questions about how your lentils should be stored between rinsing them. Leave them in the strainer, uncovered on your counter … you do not want to leave them in the water. See more about the rinsing instructions on Day 1 of the Fantastical Winter Garden notebook … click here to download and print.
 
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It’s time for our 3rd and most magical day yet! 🪄

Today’s theme is Magical Micro-Heroes!

Just because you can’t see something doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist.

Like in Harry Potter when Hagrid tells Harry he is a wizard…Harry doesn’t see there is a whole world of magic going on right around him!

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…Just like you might not see the Magical Micro-Heroes of your garden! The bacteria, fungi, and other microorganisms that we can’t see keep your plants strong and healthy every day.

In today’s session, you’ll learn about…

🌱 5 beneficial magical micro-heroes
🌱 Microorganisms delivering nutrients to our plants
🌱 Bacteria and its key role
🌱 Nutrient cycling
🌱 Rhizophagy: the escape hatches for microbes

>>> Watch today’s adventure on Magical Micro-Heroes.

Here is what a few people had to say about Day 3:

“Mind blown on that fact about how many micro-heroes are in a handful of soil.” Sue G.

“I look forward to applying this to my indoor and outdoor plants” Lizzie D.

“Glad to know how sprouting works.” Terralee G.

Don’t forget to bring your magic wand to class!

🌱 The Grow Your Own Vegetables Team 🌱

PS – After watching Day 3: Magical Micro-Heroes - please share your takeaway here.

PPS – There have been a few questions about how your lentils should be stored between rinsing them. More about this in your Fantastical Winter Garden notebook…click here to download and print.
 
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How to Keep Poinsettias Alive After The Holidays​

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How to Keep Poinsettias Alive After The Holidays

Poinsettias are often staged near the entry and exit of grocery stores, big box retailers, and our favorite department store as impulse buys. A little holiday music, and suddenly, poof, there's one in the cart. I love poinsettias, and they are certainly a holiday staple and a symbol of the...
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How to Keep Poinsettias Alive After The Holidays​

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How to Keep Poinsettias Alive After The Holidays

Poinsettias are often staged near the entry and exit of grocery stores, big box retailers, and our favorite department store as impulse buys. A little holiday music, and suddenly, poof, there's one in the cart. I love poinsettias, and they are certainly a holiday staple and a symbol of the...
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One year I had a holiday open house for clients and friends, over four consecutive nights in one week in December. I decorated with an insane number of poinsettia plants from the grocery store. They looked good well into January, and when they finally gave out, I pulled them out of their pots and pitched them over the back rail, thinking they would become compost in the rocks and dirt below. There were prickly pear cacti back there at the time, and those wilted poinsettia took root everywhere, in the cactus pads, in the dirt, in the rocks, and they grew and grew and grew. They get really leggy, but it was quite a spectacle, unexpected.

These were my table top trees that year. Unfortunately my pic cut off Santa's bi-plane landing on top of the taller one:

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Hi Jimi,



Winter doesn’t mean the end of your garden—it’s just a new beginning! This month, we’re diving into the secrets of thriving winter gardens and showing you how to enjoy fresh, flavorful produce even during the coldest months. Whether you’re growing indoors, using movable gardens, or planning for spring, this session will inspire and empower you to make the most of your garden year-round.

Join us this Monday for December’s Thriving Gardener: Monthly Garden Masterclass:

❄️ The Winter Garden Advantage: Taste, Magic & Abundance
🗓️ Monday, December 15, 2025
🕐 10am PT / 1pm ET
👉 Save My Seat
Thriving Gardener Masterclass with Stacey​

In this live session, Stacey Murphy will reveal why winter gardens can be the most flavorful, nutritious, and surprisingly magical gardens of the year—and how easy it can be to grow fresh food even during the coldest months.

You’ll discover:
  • Why Winter Gardens Taste Better – The science behind richer flavor and dense nutrition in cool-season produce.
  • Growing Indoors Made Easy – Simple, low-maintenance indoor setups that work in any home.
  • Preserve Your Abundance – Smart storing and preserving methods to stretch your harvest through the colder months.
  • Plan Your Garden Year with Confidence – How winter gardening naturally supports a more abundant spring and summer.
  • Movable & Flexible Garden Solutions – Portable garden ideas for patios, balconies, kitchens, and small spaces.
  • The Magic of Winter Gardening – Why winter gardening feels grounding, peaceful, and deeply satisfying.

Don’t miss this chance to experience the joy, flavor, and magic of winter gardening—and set yourself up for a thriving spring harvest. We can’t wait to see you there!

>>> Reserve Your Spot Now

To your thriving garden,
 
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Big Beautiful Bill authorized 4.5 billion to regenerative farming. USDA is giving it only 700 million.

Action link:

advocacy.organicconsumers.org

TAKE ACTION! Tell Congress to Save Local, Regenerative & Organic!

Organic farmers have never needed you more! Trump's USDA is still withholding payments owed to 30,715 local, regenerative and organic farmers promised $2.3 billion, including a grant OCA administers for an allied organization. Meanwhile, Trump's giving the biggest grain and oilseed...
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After refusing to disburse 6.062 billion appropriated by Congress for family famers adopting regenerative agriculture practices and serving local markets, the USDA is earmarking 700 million for regenerative agriculture, when it has given 40 billion in bailouts to industrial agriculture this year.

The 700 million isn't new money, the USDA is taking it from the combined 4.515 billion annual budget appropriated by Congress for two regenerative agriculture programs, the Environmental Quality Incentives Program and the Conservation Stewardship Program.

Why isn't all of that money going to regenerative agriculture? If regenerative only gets 700 million, that means 3.815 billion (84 percent) goes to factory farms and pesticide-drenched genetically modified field crops.
 
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Home Gardener's Weekly ​
Hi Jimi,

As we lean into the quieter months of the year, it’s the perfect time to nourish your body, expand your garden know-how, and set yourself up for a thriving season ahead. This week’s Home Gardener’s Weekly newsletter is packed with tools, tips, and inspiration to help you grow your healthiest self—both in your kitchen and your garden.
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🗞️ What’s Growing in This Week’s Newsletter 🗞️​





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Bliss Doubt said:
Big Beautiful Bill authorized 4.5 billion to regenerative farming. USDA is giving it only 700 million.

Action link:

advocacy.organicconsumers.org

TAKE ACTION! Tell Congress to Save Local, Regenerative & Organic!

Organic farmers have never needed you more! Trump's USDA is still withholding payments owed to 30,715 local, regenerative and organic farmers promised $2.3 billion, including a grant OCA administers for an allied organization. Meanwhile, Trump's giving the biggest grain and oilseed...
advocacy.organicconsumers.org advocacy.organicconsumers.org

After refusing to disburse 6.062 billion appropriated by Congress for family famers adopting regenerative agriculture practices and serving local markets, the USDA is earmarking 700 million for regenerative agriculture, when it has given 40 billion in bailouts to industrial agriculture this year.

The 700 million isn't new money, the USDA is taking it from the combined 4.515 billion annual budget appropriated by Congress for two regenerative agriculture programs, the Environmental Quality Incentives Program and the Conservation Stewardship Program.

Why isn't all of that money going to regenerative agriculture? If regenerative only gets 700 million, that means 3.815 billion (84 percent) goes to factory farms and pesticide-drenched genetically modified field crops.
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All people in political positions LIE daily IMHO
 
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Today I still had some peppers and tomatoes to pick.

These are sweet peppers.

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Tomatoes and hot chilies

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Just chilies of pretty much every variety I planted this year. This will be the end as it's getting cold enough that they are giving up.

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Indoor Plant Lighting Beyond The Basics​

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Indoor Plant Lighting Beyond The Basics

Light is a form of energy in transit. When we say something gives off light, what we are really saying is that the device is releasing or broadcasting energy. The light we see, and that used by plants, falls in a small portion of the entire electromagnetic spectrum. Thinking about how a plant...
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What if I told you there was an easy and effective way to enjoy fresh, homegrown superfood salads in the next 14 days?

Even in the dead of winter.

What am I talking about? Microgreens!

Microgreens are the young versions of the super healthy and leafy veggies like broccoli, kale, spinach, peas, and so many more.

They also happen to be a miracle food of sorts because they’re easy, fast AND pack some of the highest nutritional punch in the world!

Personally, I use them in my tacos, wraps, salads, and sometimes I just eat a handful as a food supplement.

They’re easy to grow indoors or out, require very little space, can be ready to eat in 1-2 weeks, and are one of the most cost-effective ways to deliver tons of nutrition.

They’re also super easy to grow and perfect for beginners and seasoned gardeners alike.

That’s why I’m sharing this guide containing 6 Easy-To-Grow Microgreens to show you how easy it can be to grow your own.

Inside this simple-to-follow guide, you’ll discover:

🌱 The fastest way to get a plate full of microgreens

🌱 Why watering your microgreens is different than watering your garden

🌱 How to enjoy delicious peppery, lemony, sweet, and spicy flavors in your salads

🌱 The easy way to make sure your microgreens are safe to eat

🌱 How to save a TON of money on your seeds (*hint* DON’T buy them in packets!)

🌱 When to harvest your new microgreens for maximum flavor

Download your 6 Easy-to-Grow Microgreens Guide here

You can start growing these microgreens today, right at home.

Once you start, you’ll wonder why you haven’t been doing it for years!

Wishing you abundant health,

Jason Prall


P.S. Here’s the deal: microgreens grow super fast, from seed to plate in 7-14 days. They’re packed full of vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants. And you can grow your own microgreens even if you think you have a brown thumb.

Plus, they are soooo much fresher and cheaper than what you'll find at the grocery store.

Download your guide and get started today!
 
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