Practical, folksy notes on growing food and keeping a few hens — written for your climate, your soil, your corner of the country.
Plot and Plenty keeps the same comfortable rhythm every Saturday, so it earns its spot in your weekend.
The two or three things actually worth doing in the garden right now.
One genuinely useful tool or seed — with honest pros and cons.
Rotating notes on chickens, growing, and putting up the harvest.
The heart of it: what's genuinely different about growing in your part of the country.
The part folks loveThe handiest tips and projects worth pinning above the potting bench.
A handful of good links to send you off into the weekend.
I've been growing food, keeping a few hens who think they run the place, and putting up jars of summer for longer than I'll admit on paper.
I started Plot and Plenty because most homesteading advice is written for someone else's land — flat, endless sun, soil like chocolate cake. That's not most of us. So every Saturday I send one short, useful note built on a simple idea: the best advice fits your patch of ground. Ten acres, a suburban backyard, or a balcony with big ambitions — there's a version of this life that fits where you actually live.
Pull up a chair. I'm so glad you're here.
Once a week, Saturday morning. One email — no daily pile-up.
Free forever. If you ever want to support it, sharing with a friend is the kindest thing you can do.
Not even close. Plot and Plenty is written for every size of "land" — acreage, a backyard, a community plot, or a sunny windowsill.
The Region Spotlight. Each week I dig into one part of the country and what's genuinely different about growing there — the real challenges and the fixes that actually work.
One warm, useful note every Saturday — for the land you've actually got.