You can get the full chart for free that tells you how many plants per person and the average yield per plant here melissaknorris.com/familygardenplan Are you growing more this year?

When you walked by the owl at 1:07 I thought it was real and got super impressed for a second. My mind: "This woman has it all ... A thriving homestead and a well-trained owl guarding her crops." ;) Happy to have found your channel. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.

You've got it spot-on. Last year I cropped enough dried beans from a few plants, to last me at least a couple of years. I'm still eating tomato passata I'd bottled 4 years ago. Bottling, drying and freezing....can't beat it!

Just a gentle suggestion :) grow as much as you can, you're going to enjoy eating your food much more when the people around you are also eating. Be part of what's right in the world, be a blessing :)

"My family has been saving seeds for over a 100 years." I love it! Great info!

My garden will be 2-4 times bigger this year. I will learn canning this year. I will get a good deal on a few hundred jars from a friend in about a month.

The view of your land with the mountains in the background... I'm a new subscriber but I can see why you fell in love with that property! Thanks for sharing!

I have no clue how I just found you. You’re amazing and exactly what I was looking for! Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge. 🙏🏻

Thank you Melissa. I'm endeavouring to plan(t) a garden this year. Seeing what you're doing here is inspiring.

So glad I found you! I'm just down river from you and am working on year 3 of our garden. This year is the best so far and I'm processing all sorts of our produce! This one was very informative - lots of info i can use for next year's planning. It's so nice to find someone in my exact growing zone!

Thanks Melissa for sharing and the free chart. Like you I'm about an hour from the Canadian border but about 3000 miles east here in Vermont. This year with all this craziness with this Virus and the grocery stores lacking bread and other things I decided to grow as much , (without waste) as I can. You can get by without toilet paper but not without food. Thanks for your knowledge It's much appreciated. Bless you + family.

You're awesome and just keep being awesome. I read your newsletter and I'm shocked that good clean helpful truthful content is being censored. Keep up the good work! You're helping a lot of people.💝

So glad you mentioned your new book- bought it just now off amazon! Been a follower for years, thank you so much for all the advice!!!

Thank you Melissa for all of the information on growingA garden for my family. I hope to grow quite a bit more so I can give it away thank you.

Good stuff, Melissa! I am growing more food this year than I have ever attempted before. It is very encouraging to learn from those who have gone before!!

Thank you for the chart. I really appreciate all the work you do to put these video’s together. Ignore the rude person who can find nothing better than fault with one sentence....I will pray for them.

I so admire your commitment to feeding your family healthy, organic food. Thank you for sharing all your techniques and ideas through your videos. Although I live in a subtropical climate many of what you talk about can be modified to my climate. I can’t wait to watch the pressure canning videos during canning time!

Thank you for the free worksheets. It is a huge question that we are trying to figure out for our family of seven. Plus have some extra for our parents.

Good show ....more and more people are going to grow gardens this year and will be interested in these things.

We have a family of 6 and we're planting over 2,000 seeds!!! 50 varieties of herbs alone and the rest is veggies and fruit. In over 700 square feet of garden

This is so awesome, I was just talking with my mom wondering how much we would need to plant if we were to homestead in the future! definitely more than we’re currently doing but we are still in the city 😛 one day!

We grow our peas and beans up our corn plants, it puts nitrogen back into the soil and makes double use of the space, then as a ground cover between squash and pumpkin

People who talk about growing ALL their own food never seem to talk about grains. Growing flour corn and buckwheat is super easy and wheat isn't as hard as you may think. I've never tried growing oats or rice but maybe I will someday if the world doesn't end in the next 6 months.

Obviously homesteading is working very well for you and yours. God bless.

This is the video I have been looking for, thank you so much!

I am very impressed by the lady's abilities in speaking as well as in homesteading.

Amazing! You are the woman I’ve been looking for!! I’ll be watching your videos and checking your site! Thank you!

Thanks for all of these great tips, Melissa!

Thank you so much. I am printing out the gardening sheets now and hope to order your book next payday. I think it will make a nice addition to the library I am building for my grandsons - for when NaNa isn't here any longer to help them. My grandparents passed when I was a pre-teen and there are so many questions I wished they had been here to answer. I may not be here for my grands but hopefully the library I leave them will be and it will help them as they grow our family. ~Sherrie in South Carolina

Great video! Thanks for all the info.

So informative and helpful! Thanks for sharing, Melissa!

So much good information! Thank you for sharing!

This is amazing!! I have a new family not far from your area, super useful information! Thank you so much 😊

What a beautiful view of the mountain! ❤

I'm in north Idaho and I just found your channel. Thank you for all the great tips! This is the first year owning our own home for my husband and I, so we're really excited to get started on our first garden!

I have to say as a Texas gardener, I have ZERO problem growing cool weather crops. I'm a certified Texas Master Gardener and we literally grow all year long down here. We can grow in the winter time with no problem. That's when we grow our snow peas, brussel sprouts, etc. It's not harder at all. Just a different time than you up there.

I love your garden Melissa! Wild and productive!

Hi Melissa K. Norris, Nicole here from Bridgeport, Washington! I like what you are doing 👍 You are very knowledgeable and you can tell your passion is gardening and to help others learn how to grow our own food for our families!!! Isn’t that everyone’s goal and needs. You rock and thank you so very much keep up your awesome work!!! I enjoy and appreciate you very much

You have a very well organized library of content. Good job!

This is what I needed! Thank you!

Thank you, Mrs Norris. I just picked up your three books from Apple Books store before I even finished your video. Good Luck and Good Fortune! Your information is wonderful and because I knew many of the things you were saying to be true... I invested in your work to fill the gaps in my knowledge. Thank you so much. Great video.

These are really nice. Thank you.

I used to grow extra tomatoes, onions and herbs to make and can extra salsa or spaghetti sauce.

Love the amount of information thank you so much! Very well done

This is very helpful. Thank you

Just came across your channel. You are so knowledgeable. I would love to start growing food for my family and will be changing growing climates soon due to moving (from Texas to NC) so all your information is so helpful. God bless.

Oh I see....the chart is IN the book....I'm alllll set. Ty! Book is on the way.....🖐🏻☺️ 🙌🏻💝👑

Dad grows the marzanos... i grow a yeller mater heritage breed. Seeds come a wild voluntary plant in Marietta ohio.... 32 yrs ago.. hahahaha. Theyve been to florida... Wyoming.. etc. And now they are back home in ohio. I cant wait to see the blossoms. This plant means so much to me. It has traveled the world as i have. Amen.

I’m in Washington State too. I’m on the SW side of the state. Last summer was overcast and dark. I’m ready for this year to go either way.

You are a true gift... Thank you... I am a new subscriber... I am excited at everything on this channel.

I have a garden with all raised beds (we had really bad soil with way too many stones and such)- 16 beds totaling 432 square feet of planting space. I'm hoping we can add some more garden space this year, but it may not happen. We struggle to grow enough veggies for our family of 3, but each year we manage to get a little more out of it. Sometimes too much (note to self: never ever plant an entire bed to kale again!) Thanks for your videos- they have helped me continue to get the maximum yields out of this garden.

Thank you for sharing your knowledge on gardening. I live alone and am green to gardening har har. Your awesome im so glad I found you.

The last few years, I have tried 1 or 2 new things each year, just to try new vegetables. We also planted several blueberry bushes last year, and I have ordered black elderberries that should arrive once the weather warms up enough to plant. I have enjoyed watching your videos, and have learned so much from you. Thank you for sharing your knowledge!!! I am planting more this year than ever, including many varieties of edible flowers in the flower beds in case there aren't enough greens in the garden! I have never been able to grow tomatoes from seed, as I could never get them to harden off for them to last in the garden - it is very windy here in Iowa! After watching your earlier videos, I am giving it another go...especially as I don't know as I will be getting to the store to pick up plants that come from the nursery! Keep up the information! We need it, especially right now!!!

Very good advise. Thanks for sharing

Thank you so much for sharing. I am trying to grow enough for a year for the two of us (we're seniors). We are trying square foot gardening as we don't have enough yard. This will help a lot.

My family loved baked carrots mixed with parsnips or beets.

Very helpful! Thank you!

Thank you for the video and starting me thinking. 🙂🙂🙂

Wow! Awesome video...well spoken, concise and chock full of info. I'm your neighbor to the south in the shadow of Mt Rainier and a new subscriber.

A general rule on average one acre per person for a years supplies. More land north and less in the south. This is without a greenhouse or cold frame. Also just plant what you eat. Some plants need friends to make food. Planting extra plants gives more food for you or just give away the extra. Every year the garden is different.

I just found you on KZfaq! Thanx for all the great information!! You ROCK!!

Very informative, thanks for this content.

Thanks so much for this. I’ve been really pondering this very question. I live in Chicago Illinois and I will be container gardening for my small space. This will help me. Pammie from Chicago Illinois

My sister bought your book for me on Amazon. I am so excited to get it. It will fill in the holes where I have questions about how to be self sustainable

I'd love to be completely indipendent vegetables-wise , growing everything I need, but I find the processing/preserving part more challenging than the actual growing...

Thank you for this great information!

This is great advice, thank you! Especially the part to consider how much space a lot of plants take up and what is actually being eaten. I do have a suggestion for you, though. You can use corn to grow cucumbers or beans on, as a pole, which then triples your food yield. Same with Sunchoke and peas, with zucchinis or smaller pumpkins growing at the sunchoke's or the corn's feet. You can grow zucchini and pumpkins up vertically as well. They do require a pole or trellis or something like that, though. But it keeps many diseases and pests away. Furthermore, to completely overdo it with companion planting and space saving... you can add an herb to cover the ground and retain moisture in the soil. Peppermint, balm, savory or Anis work wonders. Much success!

I lived in sedro-woolley for about a decade until 2018. I loved growing food in planter pots. especially tomatoes and peppers. Washington just got too expensive to live.

I had to pause this video 4 seconds in to comment on that scenery. I live in the Canadian Prairies. I have been to the mountains but to live next to that view would be crazy! So beautiful!!

I just bought your book from amazon. Thank you for being awesome.

wow .. great information that i was needing! I did also order your book

Hi, Melissa. Today I discovered your web and channel. We're a couple planning to go homesteading to a rural area. I've been managing an urban allotment dor 6 years and kinda know all we need to know to grow most of our food. But unfortunately, there's always a lack of resources out there for climates were rain is scarce and there's no really top soil. We live in the Mediterranean area, where the layer of top soil got eroded thousands of years ago. Bearing that in mind, this is quite inspiring... adding a twist of irrigation and fertilising and create a new channel. Homesteading where there's no rain or topsoil :-D Cheers from Barcelona.

Hey Melissa, thank you for sharing and teaching us. We are a family of 6 (3 teens... eating A LOT!) and I just got a little garden (could rent it) about 1345 square feet with an added place to put fruit trees measuring about 670 square feet. (so happy !! :D ) We planted the trees last month and now I'm planning where the berries and seeds go... so your video is right in time ;) We'll see what this first pioneering year will yield for us... we love this adventure of planting and reaping what we sow. Take care, blessings and love from The Netherlands/Holland, Diana

I am so glad I found this channel thanks so much

What a excellent video.

New sub here! This answered a lot on my questions on how much to plant in our garden! Thank you!

Beautiful Lady, with great information. Thank You.

Unfortunately we are going into winter in Southern Hemisphere but do have mild winters so I may be using cld frames to plant more veggies

Thank you for sharing this. Valuable to us Warshentonians... lol. Happy growing =)

"You can provide family for your food all year long" hehehehe

Family of 8 here💖 & just found your channel! Loving all the great info and you’re a dear:). Thanks SO much for sharing such valuable content. I want to order your book. I live on a mountain with lots of trees...no open space land but I planted 3 container patio gardens in early May, I’m so excited the carrots, pole beans & squash are already starting to sprout up. I planted lettuce & spinach in a separate container. We also built an amazing chicken coop🐥🐥🐥. My Husband & our older teens did it over the last few weeks and we have 19 baby hens...they are 3-4 weeks old and so much fun to see them grow. Can’t wait for fresh eggs when they are ready. I’m looking into grow microgreens inside...still researching that but great for immune system. I’d love to plant potatoes, looked at the 5 gallon bucket method but seems like it won’t produce much. Might try it though so I know. My goal this summer is to buy local fruits, veggies and can everything I get my hands on. Praying for opportunities to gather as much fresh, local food as possible. Thanks tons, you inspire me already and this is the second video I’ve watched of yours.

Great Advice!

I don’t know if you’ll see this post but a tip I got from Laura Ingalls Wilder book called “farmer boy” is about her husbands life growing up on a farm. His father said plant beans, corn and pumpkin together. The corn provides a frame for the beans to climb and the pumpkin provides ground cover. A good tip I think!

Thank you. Just found your channel.. New subscriber and looking forward to buying your book 🙂

Thanks for the video, God bless you

Wow what a beautiful beautiful view of the mountains I'm so jealous

It might be a good idea for you to put in a walipini. It will allow you to grow your hotter/colder weather items at any time of the year.

Washington State rocks!! I live in Covington. Short season without a greenhouse.

I plan to start growing family for my food this year for the first time

A lot of good information that you have put together. I am at 2000' so the sun can be a little much even when the temperature is not. I grow a lot of greens because they are needed when you get older for general health. They tend to go to seed very rapidly, so when I see that I cut them, dry them and make a powder and during the winter months, they can be put into all kinds of foods to enhance the nutrition. I am elderly and the elderly (start at 50 - I am77) start losing their ability to get the full nutrition from their foods, so good to have enhancements and lettuce can be grown in a pot with other things or this year, I got a green stalk and the first veggie planting will be greens. I also have one of strawberries. I also grow all of my herbs - because my goodness, look at the price of one little container of herbs at the store. I put up tons of Italians herbs and parsley every year and then I do lots of others, but don't put up as much. (and they are easy) Also, I am looking at growing food for my chickens and trying to figure what I can grow to get them a balanced diet. Because of the fox population, mine have to be fenced in and carefully guarded. I just got a premier fence for them and they love the extra space (even though their original outdoor space is pretty big) to root for worms and stuff. I already am raising comfrey and it really takes over - so lots for them and same with Jerusalem artichokes. So, moving those down closer to their coop. I always grow them sunflowers and think I will do more than save seeds this year and save seeds to feed them throughout the year and I grow mung bean sprouts for them. I LOVE carrots, but they will not grow here. So, I ordered two raised beds so I can raise root crops and my moles will have to move elsewhere. And, onions - a main course for me. And, has antiviral properties! So, lots and lots of onions to dry for all kinds of foods (saves space in storage. I need to grow mushrooms due to my health diet. And, so my adventure this year is learning to grow my own mushrooms. Don't know how that will go. Will have to do it inside because it will not survive with all of my wildlife outside. Great presentation and if I had a family with big appetites now, I would get your book and do all the calculations because it is not looking great. And, I pray everyone who is trying to grow things this year for the first time are successful and that will take some of the burden off of the whole.

New sub, just came across your work. Western Massachusetts weather like yours except not so much rain. Having trouble here every year with tomato blight, I'll look over back videos you have for some help. Thanks for your work.

Put in sweet potato slips May 1st in southern Louisiana, as it's about to get painfully hot. Cole crops plus spinach, lettuce, onions do great here during the late fall, winter. Enjoyed your video.

Love your channel.

Just found you from HOA collab. Excited to find your channel and learn!

Your hair is STUNNING in this vid! And the rest of it was great too! 🙂

Wow!!! So many plants per person! I had no idea.

Hi from France, love ur videos :)

We eat a lot of eggs so I am so very very thankful for our chickens and eggs.

Beautiful view from your property

borlotti bean common bean first bread in Colombia as the cariama to.its also known as the cranberry bean, roman bean and romano bean. It’s the beast bean I use them for baked beans