What's going on everyone? Welcome back to the Epic Gardening Podcast. I hope you have been having an amazing winter so far.

Today we have a repeat guest. Melissa Norris is back on the podcast.

For those of you who either don't remember or didn't listen to those episodes,

Melissa is a fifth generation homesteader, loves to help people use organic methods

to grow their own food, so right up my alley.

She's the host of her own podcast to pioneering today.

She has a website and she also has an upcoming book called The Family Garden Plan.

We're going to be discussing some of the topics in that book in this week of

podcasts but the first thing we're talking about is winter sewing techniques and I

think we've done a little bit of winter stuff, Melissa, this season already.

And I think a lot of people kind of shut their gardens down.

I just had Nicky Jabber on the podcast and we were talking about how no, you can definitely grow throughout the winter.

So I'm curious what you have to say

about winter sewing. Yeah well first thanks so much for having me back always love to

get to chat gardening with like-minded people and winter sewing is something I came across I think it's been

about three years now and for a long time living in a northern climate I was kind of

the same way I'm like oh winter is our rest period. You know, my

garlic's in the ground and I don't do anything with it over winter. It's planted.

It's been got its straw on it. We're good to go. And I always incorporate seed

starting because being so far north and having a relatively

short growing period for annuals in the summertime if I don't seed start tomatoes and

peppers I can't just direct sew them outside.

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