How to Jumpstart Your Early Spring Gardens

Season 1 Episode 22

It’s time! It may not feel like it, depending on where you are in the world, but for Josh and Carolyn, it’s time to start making preparations for their early spring gardens. And of course, they’re here to share their thoughts on that with you ...

In this episode of Pantry Chat, Josh and Carolyn get ready to bring the homestead around to spring, focusing specifically on getting early spring gardens growing in the ground!

In this Episode:

The whole side of beef incoming to their freezer
Grinding pig fat down to 50 quarts of lard
How to extend your seasons and increase your harvest
Getting seed started and working it into a new system
Why the basement is not great for germinating seeds
Getting hundreds of starts going in the kitchen
Why you want the most intensive projects as close to you as possible
The long-term survival food benefits of freeze drying
Their brand new cheese cave (cheese and dairy classes coming in September!)
How to culture and use raw milk in butter making
The challenge of growing zones and the last frost date
When to start thinking about planting out in the garden
A number of ways you can speed up the soil warming process
The standard varieties that are suited to early spring gardens
The most overlooked and easiest growing method

Resources:

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How to Jumpstart Your Early Spring Gardens