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The Backyard Food Starter Guide
A no-nonsense first plan for ordinary yards: light, soil, crops, water, insects, and your first 30 days.
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Your yard can do more than look pretty.
Learn to grow food, build healthier soil, make room for wildlife, and stop treating nature like the enemy.
WELCOME TO THE RESISTANCE
“The most important thing we grow isn’t food. It’s the relationship we develop with the land that teaches us how to care for everything else.”
THE GOOD STUFF, WITHOUT THE ALGORITHM
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New guides, seasonal reminders, practical garden lessons, and the occasional rant about why we should probably stop poisoning everything.
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Take what helps. Share what works.
The point is to get more people growing. Start with what helps today—and check back, because this library is still growing.
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Stop Fighting Your Garden
A practical guide to soil, water, insects, habitat, and knowing when intervention is actually necessary.
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Grow More in Less Space
Vertical growing, succession planting, containers, crop choice, and a practical three-season plan for making ordinary square footage work harder.
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VIRTUAL GARDEN COACHING
You don’t need a perfect garden. You need a plan that makes sense for yours.
Bring me the messy yard, the weird light, the pest problem, the “I have no idea where to start” situation. We’ll work through it together.
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- One-on-one video consultation
- Garden questions, layout, troubleshooting, planning
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THE WORK IS HANDS-ON. THE ADVICE SHOULD BE TOO.PAID PARTNERS
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ABOUT · PAUL AVELLINO
I didn’t start growing food because I had it all figured out.
I started because I wanted to understand where my food came from and have a little more say in how it was grown. Somewhere between the first seedlings, the mistakes, and the seasons that refused to cooperate, the garden became something much bigger.
Now I use an ordinary yard to grow food, build habitat, experiment loudly, and share what works — including the things that absolutely don’t. I’m less interested in perfect gardens than I am in healthier soil, useful harvests, more wildlife, and helping people feel capable of growing something for themselves.
The education here stays free on purpose. Nobody should need a subscription to learn how to feed themselves, care for the land under their feet, or make their little piece of the world more alive.
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GROW FOOD · BUILD HABITAT · SHARE KNOWLEDGE
FIELD NOTE — I’m not here to teach you how to control nature. I’m here to help you notice how much easier gardening gets when you stop trying to.