Service Description

Most people don't fail at kitchen gardening because they don't care enough or don't work hard enough. They fail because nobody told them upfront that growing your own food is actually an operations problem. You need a plan, a schedule, and a system. Without those three things, you're just guessing, and guessing in the garden gets expensive fast. I've been growing food in Seattle for years, and I've made a lot of those mistakes myself. Dead seedlings, wrong timing, plants that bolted before I even noticed. I'm going to show you all of that, not just the pretty harvest photos. In this 90-minute workshop, we're going to cut through the noise and build you a real framework for your first kitchen garden. We'll cover the five mistakes that kill most first-year gardens before they even get started, the three decisions you need to make before you put a single plant in the ground, how to figure out what to grow, when to plant it, and how to keep things going without it taking over your weekends, and what a productive Seattle Zone 8b garden actually looks like across the seasons. This is a small group, 10 people max, so you'll get real answers to your specific questions. Bring your yard situation, your constraints, your confusion. We'll work through it. This is the Founding Cohort, which means it's the first time I'm running this workshop and the price reflects that. It also means your feedback helps shape what this becomes. I think that's a fair trade. WHO THIS IS FOR Busy homeowners in Seattle who want real food from their own yard and have no idea where to start, or who tried before and couldn't figure out why it didn't work. WHO THIS IS NOT FOR Experienced growers looking for advanced techniques. This is foundations, and I'm not going to pretend otherwise. YOUR INSTRUCTOR I'm Jackie Roy. I have a PhD in Molecular Biology and spent years in pharma and biotech program management before I realized the most useful thing I could do was help people grow their own food. I grow year-round in Seattle's Zone 8b, I've built raised beds, an unheated greenhouse, and more herb planters than my husband thinks are necessary. I bring the same systems brain I used in project management to the garden, and I think that's exactly what most beginners are missing. Spots are limited to 10. Book yours before it fills up.