Little Farm in the Garden: A Practical Mini-Guide to Raising Selected Fruits and Vegetables Homestead-Style

by Susan Colleen Browne

From the author of the award-winning homesteading memoir, Little Farm in the Foothills, comes a friendly, down-to-earth little guide for starting and maintaining a thriving food garden. In Little Farm in the Garden, Susan Colleen Browne shares the evolution of her own homestead garden with warmth and humor. Whether you’re starting with a pot, a small plot, or dedicated garden beds, this handy booklet covers the basic nuts-and-bolts of growing your own food like selecting crops, raising food without chemicals, and creating healthy soil.If you've read Susan's Little Farm memoirs, this guide can be a helpful addition to the homesteading experiences she's shared in her books. But Little Farm in the Garden also works as a stand-alone manual for simple ways to approach creating your own food supply, focusing on easy-to-grow vegetables, herbs, and fruit, and building a balanced garden for the long-term.And as all gardening fans know, raising your own food can give you a sense of pleasure and accomplishment too. Wherever you are in your gardening journey, Little Farm in the Garden offers a lively, heartfelt approach for gardeners, nature-lovers, and dreamers of all ages!New Book, #4 of the Series! Little Farm in the A True-Life Tale of Hen-Keeping Homestead Style, is now available for Pre-Order... It's the story of the joys and challenges of keeping a backyard flock of laying hens--with tips and techniques for healthy, happy chickens!And if you like fiction with a gardening theme, Susan's novel The Galway Girls has some intriguing tie-ins with her real-life experiences in Book 2 of the Little Farm series, Little Farm Homegrown.Susan Colleen Browne is a graduate of the College of the Environment, Western Washington University. An avid gardener, she weaves her love of Ireland and her passion for country living into her warmhearted Irish Village of Ballydara series. Susan is a community college instructor, and runs a little homestead with her husband John in the Pacific Northwest, USA. When Susan isn’t wrangling chickens or tending vegetable beds, she’s working on her next novel or homesteading book!

Genres: Gardening, Nonfiction

110 pages, Kindle Edition

Published April 2, 2020

About the author

Susan Colleen Browne weaves her love of Ireland and her passion for country life into her Village of Ballydara books--feel-good novels of love and family set in the Irish countryside. Susan's new series, The Fairy Cottage of Ballydara Mini-series, now includes The Little Irish Gift Shop and Becoming Emma...with #3 on the way for 2021!

Her 4th Ballydara novel, The Galway Girls, is a warmhearted tale of women's friendships and finding love where you least expect it.

You'll find Susan's favorite Irish books and movies at www.susancolleenbrowne.com, and free books too! She's a big fan of authors Jenny Colgan, Liane Moriarty, and Marian Keyes.

Her award-winning memoir, "Little Farm in the Foothills," is a lighthearted tale for gardeners, nature lovers, and dreamers of all ages. If you like backyard farming, cooking with homegrown food and country living, you’ll find stories and pics on her Little Farm blog.

Susan has also penned a fantasy-adventure series for tweens, set near Seattle, that's family-friendly too!

A creative writing instructor, Susan writes and gardens at Berryridge Farm in the Pacific Northwest, USA. Many of the farm adventures in The Galway Girls were inspired by her real-life experiences...and when not writing, you’ll find Susan wrangling chickens, tending vegetable beds, and dreaming up new Irish stories!

Reviews

[Louise purfield-coak · Rating 4 out of 5]

Gardening in the Pacific Northwest

This is an excellent primer on gardening in the Pacific Northwest. Unfortunately, I was looking for a book more relevant to the upper Great Lakes region.

[Joan Prout · Rating 2 out of 5]

Pretty light