Winter Garden Challenge 2024

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Day 1 LIVE Session Replay

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Join Paul Dysinger as he interviews Justin and Rebekah about what it is like to grow through the winter on a homestead. Listen as we discuss the why’s behind growing your own food, why winter gardening is easier than summer gardening, and what Justin and Rebekah are planning to grow this winter - plus what it means to quit the grocery store and grow your own food!

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Listen in as Edwin and Eliot talk about how Eliot got his farm and started farming on the coast of Maine, Zone 5. How winter weather has changed over the years in his location. How he got started growing through the winter, learning what to plant and when to plant. About his book, “The Winter Harvest Handbook”. How he developed several techniques and tools for the small grower. How far north his growing techniques can be applied. The value and need for simplicity. The one thing that is perhaps more important to protect from than cold. What he is doing for retirement and the new book he is working on, “The Self-Fed Farm”.

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Diego Footer from Modern Grower shares how to grow your own fresh microgreens in your kitchen (or really almost anywhere!). This is one of the fastest and easiest ways to start growing your own food with up to 40x the nutrients of adult plants. So wherever you live, growing microgreens in the winter is a huge win!

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Join Paul Dysinger as he interviews Josh & Carolyn Thomas and learn how they went from an apartment in California to a 40 acre homestead in Northern Idaho. Discover what extending your season looks like in northern climates, plus learn simple practical ways Josh & Carolyn store veggies over the winter when there is tons of snow outside.

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Join in on the conversation as Luke Hammond interviews Cam and Becky Porter of the Seasonal Homestead Youtube channel. Find out how they grow nearly all of their food for a family of 7 all year long! They didn’t start off this way, Becky’s health challenges forced them to dig in and begin ensuring the quality of the food they ate. As a result, nearly everything that their family eats they produce on their homestead in Northern Arkansas. Becky is now healthy and their family is thriving as they embrace the lifestyle of hard working homestead. They produce crops year round and are most known for their amazing pantry.

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Join in on the conversation between Luke Hammond and Paul & Kylie Garcia of BugHut. Learn about the story of BugHut; a live microbial soil amendment company that strives to serve the home grower with simple labels for the homeowner to be able to use live microbial soil amendments.

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Join in on the conversation as Luke Hammond interviews Katie Krejci. Katie’s instagram has shot into popularity as she brings a vibrant personality to the Homesteading community. Katie and her Husband homestead in the Northwoods of Minnesota. Life and homesteading are significantly different in this brutally cold environment. Learn some preservation techniques, tips on overwintering chickens in this climate, and the story of what it's like to live and grow in growing zone 3-4.

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Takota Coen, a permaculture practitioner, shares with Edwin about growing up on an organic farm in zone 2-3 near Edmonton, Alberta. He shares some permaculture principles for laying out a garden and/or homestead property to create beneficial Takota’s book on a step-by-step process for designing and laying out a homestead property. His recommendation for a permaculture course. Applying the Principles of Syntropic Agroforestry in cold climates, he has been able to get the equivalent of 5 years of normal growth on trees in 1 year.

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Edwin interviews Keith Burns, co-founder of Greencover, and Jonathan Goodding, Marketing Director at Greencover. In the first half, Keith shares the 6 principles of soil health and the role of cover crops in soil health. In the second half, Jonathan shares practical ways that cover crops can be incorporated into the home garden, with a special focus on winter cover crops.

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Join in on the conversation between Luke Hammond and Jill Ragen. In this interview you are sure to be encouraged and learn amazing tips from Jill as she talks about the joys of winter gardening. Jill shares some great tips and techniques for overwintering brassicas and other favorites. She also does a deeper dive into the beauty and profitability of tulip production. If you are interested in flowers, Tulips might be a great choice for you this winter.

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Join in on a conversation between Luke Hammond as he interviews the Mindful Farmer: Sean Pessarra. Sean has a breadth of experience scaling market gardens and growing year round in central Arkansas. Learn some tips, tricks, and hacks on everything from winter production to building a root cellar like environment to store your root crops.

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Join Paul Dysinger as he interviews Kevin Espiritu from Epic Gardening as he shares his gardening journey in Southern California. Listen as we discuss what winter growing is like in zones 9-10, and why it is different than gardening in cooler climates

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Join Edwin, Paul, and Luke as they tackle some of the top questions being asked during the Winter Garden Challenge including how to know when to plant seeds based on your zone, how to water plants in the winter, how does growing in raised beds or bags effect winter growing, can you direct sow seeds for fall/winter crops, how do you deal with pests and wildlife like deer, rabbits, and groundhogs when planning a winter garden, and more!

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Join in on the conversation as Luke Hammond interviews Diego Footer. Diego offers a breadth of knowledge as he talks through the pros and cons of different kinds of market farming tools, techniques, and fabrics. Home gardeners can glean vital information on season extension on a budget by learning about the advantages and disadvantages of low tunnels, landscape fabric, and the importance of not comparing yourself with other growers.

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Join Paul as he sits down to discuss the powerful potential of Caterpillar Tunnels with Jonathan, the founder of Farmer's Friend. Besides being cousins, Jonathan and Paul share many experiences working together on the family farm during their growing years, and now share a passion for helping farmers and gardeners multiply their efforts to create more abundant harvests, without multiplying backbreaking labor, or expense.

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EVENT SCHEDULE

Day 1

Sunday

8am CDT

Justin & Rebekah Rhodes

Winter Gardening on the Homestead

Eliot Coleman

No-Heat Winter Growing in Maine (Zone 5)

Modern Grower

How to Grow Microgreens in Your Kitchen!

LIVE STREAM - 7pm CDT

Luke Marion

Choosing What to Grow in the Winter

Day 2

Monday

8am CDT

Josh & Carolyn Thomas

Season Extension and Crop Storage in North Idaho

Cam & Becky Porter

Planning, Storing, and Growing Food Through the Winter Season

Bug Hut

Living Biology for Plant and Soil Health

LIVE STREAM - 7pm CDT

Michael Kilpatrick

Timing for Fall and Winter Crops

Day 3

Tuesday

8am CDT

Katie Krejci

Homesteading in the Northwoods - Zone 3-4 (It's Cold - Maybe Too Cold)

Takota Coen

Permaculture Design with Winter Growing

Green Cover

Cover Cropping Methods for Soil Health

LIVE STREAM - 7pm CDT

Special Feature

Laying Out Your Winter Garden

Day 4

Wednesday

8am CDT

Jill Ragan

Winter Gardening, Tulip Production and Winter Brassicas

Sean Pessarra

Market farming scaling, building a root cellar hack, and more.

Kevin Espiritu

Fall & Winter Gardening in Southern CA (Zone 9-10)

LIVE STREAM - 7pm CDT

John Dysinger

Succession Planting for a Continual Harvest

Day 5

Thursday

8am CDT

Bonus Q+A

Bonus Q+A Session with Seedtime Team

Diego Footer

Modern Tools and Techniques for Protecting Crops Into the Winter

Farmers Friend

Simple Protection With Caterpillar Tunnels

LIVE STREAM - 7pm CDT

Melissa Norris

Protecting Your Winter Crops

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