Category: Family Gardening
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This is the place to begin. Whether you’ve never touched a trowel or just want a fresh, natural approach, this course walks your whole family through the core principles of natural gardening — from soil and water basics to plant selection, pest management, and planning through the seasons. Take it together, learn together, grow together.…
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Ready to go deeper? This course explores soil as a living ecosystem — from the food web of organisms that make it thrive, to composting, soil testing, and science-backed practices drawn from USDA and university extension research. Perfect for gardeners who want to understand the why behind healthy soil, not just the what. Here are…
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Ever planted something and wondered if you did it right? This course gives you a practical baseline for the fundamentals — soil readiness, planting depth, spacing, and transplanting — drawn from agricultural research but translated for the home garden. Trial and error is still part of gardening, but this gives you a solid place to…
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New to preserving food? Do NOT go to YouTube first! Safe & Savvy Food Preservation Basics is a super short course about what you didn’t know that you need to pay attention to before you start your canning and preserving adventure. In 15 minutes or less you will learn: After reviewing the course you will…
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Companion planting is a hot topic on gardening sites. If you don’t know what it is. Companion planting is simply planting fruits, vegetables and herbs together in such a way that they assist each other’s growth and productivity either attracting beneficial bugs or repelling bad ones as well as nutrient sharing. In short, they do…
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Accessible Gardening – So what does that really mean? When most people think about accessible gardens, the first ideas that come to mind are wide pathways and raised beds for those with mobility challenges. But when you’re designing a garden for the whole family—children included—there’s much more to consider. San Diego Master Gardener Stephen Cantu,…
