How Becky Gardens For Her Family

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Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

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🗓️ 12 October 2023

⏱️ 12 minutes

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100% of the produce Becky grows in her garden is eaten by her family. After trying several methods, today she focuses on food production in her raised beds. With goals to plant an orchard, a vineyard, and concentrating more on perennial gardening, there is much to look forward to. Epic Gardening Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/3Q7UUBX Botanical Interests Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/3Q9SMKj Book Collection Page: https://growepic.co/3RXTxqO EG Homesteading Book: https://growepic.co/46FZE7p Connect With Becky Jones: While working as a dental hygienist, Becky’s passion for scratch cooking grew into a passion for knowing where her food comes from. A couple of years ago, she and her husband had the opportunity to buy a home on a small one-acre parcel of land. In January 2021, she started the Acre Homestead YouTube channel to document her second year of gardening. What started as a personal project grew into a full-time job within a matter of months! Today, she shares her passion for homegrown, homemade, and locally-sourced food. Instagram YouTube Website Shop the Store As an exclusive for listeners, use code THEBEET for 5% off your entire order on our store, featuring our flagship Birdies Raised Beds. These are the original metal raised beds, lasting up to 5-10x longer than wooden beds, are ethically made in Australia, and have a customizable modular design. Shop now and get 5% off your first order. Get Our Books Looking for a beginner's guide to growing food in small spaces? Kevin’s book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, explains the core, essential information that you'll need to grow plants, no matter where you live! He also wrote Grow Bag Gardening to provide you with specialized knowledge that can bring you success when growing in fabric pots. Preorder Kevin’s newest book Epic Homesteading if you are looking to turn your home into a thriving homestead! Order signed copies of Kevin’s books, plus more of his favorite titles in our store. More Resources Looking for more information? Follow us: Our Blog YouTube (Including our Epic Homesteading and Jacques in the Garden channels) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	How do you garden for your family and grow food?
0:07.3	So much food really that you don't need to source anything else, at least vegetables.
0:13.8	We have Becky Jones back in the show from Anchor Homestead.
0:16.3	I know that's not entirely accurate, Becky, because you mentioned that you will sometimes
0:19.7	have a crop failure or you'll sometimes decide to source, you know, other produce locally.
0:24.6	But I mean, if you just talk me through the setup of your garden, it seems like a lot
0:28.4	of it. Maybe the lion's share is coming from your own land these days, right?
0:33.2	Yeah, so we if I could eat, we could eat right now from probably from June until November 100%
0:43.8	produce from the garden if I wanted to. But, you know, I choose not to do that for a couple
0:48.9	of reasons. Well, the biggest reason is like my corn that I have out there, I've always
0:54.9	struggled to grow corn. I've tried four years in a row. I'll try again next year, but I don't
1:00.5	know if my corn's going to produce anything. So I did go to my local farmer because corn's
1:05.0	in season and I bought 150 years of corn yesterday. And so I preserved that up because I want
1:12.6	to have I like the taste of home preserved corn in the freezer. And so I didn't want, you know,
1:18.9	waste that opportunity because I am going to die on a principle that I'm not going to
1:22.7	eat anything that I don't grow. Or like last year, my tomatillos didn't do hardly anything,
1:27.8	and we like solseverity. So I went and bought a bunch of tomatillos from a local farmer to preserve
1:35.0	that up. This year, my tomatillos are doing fine. So I'm not going to need to do that. And so,
1:40.3	but our generally are eating, unless I'm buying a big bulk thing to preserve up for the year,
1:46.1	we generally are eating 100% produce from our garden. Yeah. And just really quickly on the corn,
1:54.6	what's happening to yours that's causing it to fail, do you think? Well, the first two years,
2:00.1	I planted my corn in an in-ground garden that I didn't, it wasn't on my irrigation system. So I
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