Grow Your Own Food Using Practical, Organic Systems
Growing your own food isn’t about having a perfect garden. It’s about learning how plants grow, how systems work together, and how early decisions affect everything that follows.
This page brings together the core lessons I teach at Sugar Creek Farm — all rooted in real-world gardening, prevention-first thinking, and long-term garden health.
Start With the Foundations
🌱 Garden Planning & Food-Growing Systems
Start here if you’re planning or reworking your garden.
→ How I Plan My Garden to Reduce Pest Problems Before They Start
(Grow Your Own Food)
This lesson walks through how spacing, layout, timing, and plant health influence pest pressure long before anything is planted.
🌿 Companion Planting for Resilience
Learn how diversity supports healthier plants.
→ Why I Grow Herbs and Flowers With My Vegetables (And What It Actually Does)
(Companion Planting)
This post explains how herbs and flowers function as part of a food-growing system — not decoration or gimmicks.
🐛 Understanding Pest Pressure
Learn how to assess problems before reacting.
→ What I Look for Before Treating Any Garden Pest (An Organic, Prevention-First Approach)
(Organic Pest Control)
This is the foundation for how I approach pest management — focused on observation, thresholds, and long-term balance.
How These Lessons Work Together
These topics aren’t separate — they’re connected.
- Planning affects plant health
- Plant health affects pest pressure
- Diversity affects resilience
- Observation affects decision-making
Learning to grow food well means understanding how these systems support one another.
Want More Structured Guidance?
If pests are the biggest thing standing between you and a productive garden, I teach a complete, prevention-first system inside my course:
Stop Garden Pests Organically
This course walks through pest identification, prevention strategies, and decision-making step by step — so you’re not guessing or reacting every season.
→ View the Course