The Ground Beneath Your Feet
- The fistful-of-dirt test that tells you what to plant before you spend a dime.
- Why the sunniest corner of your yard is worth more than the biggest one.
- How to raise good beds from lumber that costs you nothing.
The Forgotten Garden Collection
Two complete handbooks from Forgotten Garden America, two hundred old growing secrets in all, plus a free quick-harvest bonus. Together they carry you from the first shoots of spring to fresh food under the winter snow, and a quieter grocery bill all the way round.
2 Handbooks + 1 Free Bonus · 250 Secrets
Two books, one free bonus, and a garden that feeds you all year.
Get the Bundle, $39.99A Friendly Reckoning
Move the sliders to picture it for your own household. These are friendly, illustrative estimates, not a promise, and they read zero when you try nothing.
Estimated kept and grown per year
$0
about $0 a month
Try a secret or two and watch the number grow.
Honest estimates, not professional advice. Real results vary with your climate, your soil, your season, and your own two hands.
The Math, Done Plainly
A friendly, middle-of-the-road picture of one year. The figures are illustrative, not guarantees, and yours will land where your patch of ground takes them.
| Corner of the table | The old way of doing it | Typical year | After | You keep |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fresh vegetables Most produce bought at the store | A sunny bed of the crops you eat most | $1,100 | $520 | $580 |
| Salad & leafy greens Bagged salad every week | Cut-and-come-again greens by the door | $260 | $70 | $190 |
| Herbs & seasonings Plastic packs that wilt in days | A few pots on the step, snipped fresh | $180 | $35 | $145 |
| Seeds & seedlings New flats and packets each spring | Save your own seed, take free cuttings | $140 | $40 | $100 |
| Soil & fertilizer Bagged compost and plant feed | Kitchen scraps and free leaf mould | $120 | $20 | $100 |
| Out-of-season produce Dear winter greens and early salad | Pick fresh in every season, 52 weeks a year | $280 | $90 | $190 |
| Pantry staples Potatoes, onions, beans by the bag | Grow keepers that store for months | $480 | $280 | $200 |
| Across one friendly, illustrative year | $2,560 | $1,055 | $1,505 | |
Illustrative, middle-of-the-road estimates only. Results vary, and this is not professional advice.
The knowledge was nearly lost. Now it fits in your back pocket.
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Forgotten Garden America
2 handbooks · 1 free bonus · 250 secrets
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Each book on its own
100 old-fashioned secrets to grow your own food and shrink the grocery bill, across 10 parts. 121 pages, printable PDF.
100 lost growing secrets for picking fresh food in every season, 52 weeks a year, across 10 parts. 221 pages, printable PDF.
Two Hundred Secrets, Plus a Bonus
Two handbooks of ten parts each, a hundred secrets apiece, and a free bonus of fifty fast crops. Here is a taste of all three.
100 secrets · 10 parts · 121 pages
100 secrets · 10 parts · 221 pages
From seed to plate in a month or less · 61 pages
Fifty quick crops grouped by how soon they feed you: about ten days, about three weeks, and about a month.
Read them in order or open them anywhere, but read with a pencil, and start one secret this week.
One small, well-tended garden, and a quieter grocery bill.
Get the Bundle, $39.99Why It Exists
There was a time, not so long ago, when a family did not drive to the store for supper. They walked out the back door. A small patch of ground gave them potatoes for the cellar, beans for the pot, sweet kale from under the snow, and enough put by to carry them clear through to spring.
They had little money, but they had knowledge, handed down at a parent's elbow and so well understood that nobody thought to write it down. Somewhere along the way we mislaid it, until the grocery bill climbed and many a family began to wonder how their grandparents had managed so much, in every season, on so little.
We gathered this collection to set that knowledge down before the last of it disappears, in the plain words of the folks who lived it. Not to be admired on a shelf, but to be used, one secret at a time, out where the ground is.
With care, Forgotten Garden America.
Questions, Answered Plainly
Two hundred and fifty forgotten secrets, gathered while there is still time to pass them on. Begin one this week, and let your small patch of ground feed you in every season.
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