Did you know you can find liquid sugar in your yard? Take a fun winter journey out the back door with Tess Hoke.  You might be surprised to learn there's a golden liquid flowing that can sweeten up your life!

Maple Syrup from your backyard

If you like the idea of growing your groceries, you'll appreciate the YardFood tip of the week. Fun and to the point, these little gems will give you a roadmap to follow. So you'll know what it's time to do next!

Do you celebrate bare root season?

From Tess Hoke.com comes YardFood, the podcast. Here you’ll discover new places to find your groceries, new things to call your groceries. And most importantly you’ll see why it matters to your life.

In this episode Tess starts at the beginning by asking Why YardFood? She’ll tell you how a happy and healthy body is essential to achieving your dreams; and eating real, good food is a great place to start. It’s very possible to grow your own groceries. And as an added bonus, you just might find that there’s more in the garden than food.

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01 YardFood Podcast Episode 1 - February 26, 2015 Why YardFood

Take a peek into the world of soil microbes and see how they can help you grow a great food garden!

Dirt Under Your Feet

Make friends with soil microbes and they'll help you grow amazing food. Learn how to benefit from what they do naturally!

Soil Microbes Help You Grow Food

Get started with PorchFood

Here's a radio clip from the show YardFood - heard on KTRT97.5 FM. In this episode Tess sets listeners straight on saving tomato seeds - "it doesn't have to be hard!"

How to save tomato seeds

It's time to do something with the squash you grew! 
Find out how to best harvest & store your pumpkins & winter squash.

Tess joins Dep Don of KTRT97.5FM for another episode of YardFood.

How to harvest & store squash

There's a secret to growing sweet & flavorful carrots.
Learn this trick & add it to your gardening tool belt.

Tess joins Don from KTRT 97.5FM in another episode of YardFood.

Sweeten your carrots

This one fall chore will give you a BIG jump on spring!
And your garden - whatever it is that you're growing - will reward you with a bigger harvest....

Join Tess as she visits Don from KTRT 97.5FM & reveals the secret.

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