Hi everyone! I’m Alexis, I’m from Pennsylvania and have 3 little ones, just turned 4, almost 2, and 1 month old. I’ve been gardening for 8 years since we moved in our house and always love learning new things and how to do it with little ones 🥰 My 4 and 2 yr old love helping however they can 😃♥️. Thank you Jess for putting this together and am looking forward to entering this garden season with you all!

Do y'all have what they call "little winters" in your area?

This is what we have in TN

I guess I should introduce myself.
Hi my name is Denise I was born and breed here in Nashville TN,which means Im a unicorn now days lol..
Married with with 2 grown kids..no grand babies yet but there's alway hope.

Been gardening off and on for years. Mostly raised beds and pots.
We live in the city so the soil here is horrible. I grow everything from herbs to veggies ..
This year Im trying potatoes for the first time so wish me luck ..
I also like to dehydrate everything lol. But this year Im going to dip my toes into canning for the first time ..


Thank you Jess for putting this group together.
Looking forward in speaking to everyone!

Hello everyone! My name is Savannah and I’ve been married for 5 years now with two beautiful boys. One is 3 and my youngest son passed away in March. We are coming up on his first birthday here soon. This will be my second year truly having a garden. I’ve had multiple years of not putting effort into one and seeing what grows after throwing some seed down and neglecting my poor garden. We bought our home this year in Pennsylvania and it sits on 7 acres. We are getting chickens soon and are dedicating ourself to becoming more self reliable. I know I have a lot to learn and I’m excited to be apart of this group! Thank you!

Hi everyone! My name is Shelly. Husband and I have been married since 8/6/10 and have 3 daughters almost 10, and 2. I am from SW Washington state zone 8A. Although I’m at a higher elevation for our state and in a more rural area… away from the.craziness of the cities out here. Around 1000 foot elevation. I have been growing for about 15 years, but only my 3rd season on our current property that’s on 10 mostly wooded acres. We use about an acre for the house, yard and garden spaces. Currently have 8 laying hens and a rabbit. We also have a grow room in my garage (easier for me than a green house) that we are expanding currently from two high-pressure sodium lights to four here very soon. I will update with pictures once we get the renovations completed here in the next week or so. In addition to new lights we decided to add in some different type of growing mediums. This will be my first time working with mineral blocks so I am a little intimidated, but also excited. Aside from those new things to come I have started a couple flats of tomatoes (one for sauce/paste and one for fun varieties), a flat of herbs, a flat of flowers and some other random things so far. I am way behind on peppers and eggplants, but such is life. Looking forward to this little community. Thank you to Jessica for sharing this space. Attached is a fun picture of a final harvest of sorts from this past year.

Hi everyone! I am Alicia from West Tennessee. I am loving seeing how many people are in the TN area! I bought a house last fall so this is actually my first year really attempting a garden. I made excusing while renting apartments but that is gone now! Excited to get started!!

Hello everyone from West Tn (Jackson). I have been gardening and canning since I was 19 years old and I am now 70 years old. I am called frugal freda because I try to save money and utilize the things I have. I have a small backyard garden now but I grow and can things we need. I love cooking and gardening!

Hey everyone! I live in central MN on the WI border (zone 4a). I have been gardening for the past 10 years. We have heavy soil so most of our gardening is done in raised beds. We also sell our prpduce at local farmers markets and weekly prodice boxes. Hoping to set up a farm store this summer! So excited to be here ☺️

Hi everyone!! I’m excited to be a part of this group! I’m fairly new to gardening and will be doing mostly contained gardening this year. I’m in zone 6 - northwest Ohio. 😊 Thank you Jessica!

Hello to y’all. Thank you Jessica for starting this very beautiful community site. I especially love the graphic you chose.
My name is Gaurī. We’re in the mountains of western NC in zone 7b on 5 gorgeous acres w mountains all around and a bubbling creek running through. We’re just beginning year 3 here. Each year my garden gets bigger and bigger.
I’m excited to have finally finished a long hugelcultur berm & plan to plant all kinds of veggies on it this first season.
I’m trying to figure out some crop rotations to discourage insects which are brutal here.
I also began two vermicomposting bins which I’m sad to say are a bit challenging. I can’t quite figure out what I’m doing wrong but the worms aren’t completely happy yet.
My question is what have people grown on cattle panel arches? Has anyone grown baby watermelons & cantaloupe?