Fall Guide for your Garden-to-Table Lifestyle
Fall is a perfect time to start a Garden-to-Table lifestyle. This gardening guide provides everything you need to create a food garden that grows the best tasting and healthiest greens and herbs.
As the season changes and the air becomes crisp, it’s time to bring in the cool season leafy greens and lettuce plus herbs for the upcoming holidays.
From planting cool-weather crops to creating hearty meals from your harvest, the Fall Gardening and Cooking Guide has everything you need to enjoy a fruitful and flavorful season.
What’s Inside the Fall Gardening and Cooking Guide
We've partnered with Barbie Aknin of Community Cuisine to bring you expert tips on seasonal cooking. Barbie’s insight ensures you can take what you grow (or buy at the Farmers Marketing) and turn it into simple, wholesome meals that are perfect for this time of year.
Gardening Tips for Cooler Weather
Learn which crops thrive in cooler temperatures and how to extend your growing season well into the fall. The Fall Gardening and Cooking Guide offers practical tips on soil preparation, planting schedules, and frost protection, ensuring you enjoy fresh greens, herbs, and root vegetables throughout the season.Seasonal Cooking Inspiration
With Barbie Aknin’s seasonal cooking tips, you’ll discover simple yet delicious recipes that make the most of your fall harvest. The Fall Gardening and Cooking Guide features a variety of recipes perfect for family meals and special occasions.Sustainable Gardening Practices
Find out how to practice sustainable gardening this season using the Fall Gardening and Cooking Guide. From composting tips to water conservation, we’ll show you how to create a garden that’s both eco-friendly and productive.
Get Your Garden and Kitchen Ready
No reason not to apply your new knowledge immediately. We've curated a seasonal garden kit for the Fall to include seasonal organic starter plants, organic soil and planters plus recipes and other goodies.
The kit also comes pre-planted for you so you can jump right into growing and harvesting.
Seasonal Garden Kit
Starts @ $59.00
Everything needed to plant 6 organic seedlings plus microgreens for the season. Comes with organic soil, organic amendments, planters and garden accessories.
Seasonal Garden Kit + Seasonal Gardening and Cooking Digital Course
Starts @$85.00
Everything you Need for Seasonal Gardening.
The Seasonal Garden Kit includes everything you need to grow and harvest six of the season's best leafy greens and herbs. The greens we send will be tailored to your region for optimal growing results!
PLUS Seasonal Gardening and Cooking Digital Course - We bring together expertise in organic gardening and cooking to deliver a simple, easy to follow online course. You'll learn how to cultivate your own garden and create delicious vegetable dishes with new cooking techniques and ideas.
Created by Expert Gardening & Cooking Pros
About Planted Places
Christy Ross, founder of Planted Places, started a company focused on making it easy for people to garden organically no matter the space or time. Planted Places is the maker of the innovative Planted Wall, an outdoor vertical gardening system for sustainably growing food. The wall is designed to be EASY to grow nutrient-dense greens & herbs — no matter your space or location. It is self-watering, self-fertilizing and on wheels so you can move it to the sun. It also features a recirculating irrigation system to conserve water.
We also offer garden grow kits for each season and a Garden Shop where you can purchase all your organic growing needs. Our seedling shop allows you to custom select the season's best of certified organic seedlings. We grow from organic seed only and nurture the seedlings until they are at prime transplant size. This eliminates 6-8 weeks of waiting for the seeds to sprout and grow!
Put your seedlings and soil purchases on auto-delivery and we will ship your season's seedling based on your shipment preference.
About Community Cuisine
Barbie Aknin is a seasoned food professional with over 35 years of experience, Barbie brings a deep knowledge of food, creativity, and passion for cooking to the table. ”I believe that cooking is a teachable skill that enhances our meals and our health. It connects us to people and the natural rhythm of the seasons.” Barbie’s objective is to pass this on. She-
- Teaches the art, traditional techniques, and the value of cooking
- Shares practical techniques with those just learning and artful skills to the “foodie”
- Shares culinary traditions from both the past and the present, drawing from the rich cultures of our community
- She connects the dots in our local food system by introducing farmers, artisans, foragers, and chefs to my community
Community Cuisine offers:
- Public and private cooking classes in person and online
- Special events and classes with guest teachers and speakers
- Private and public retreats
- International food-centered travel experiences including:
- Provence France, where we stay at Simca Beck’s former home next door to Julia Child’s former home home
- Agricultural southern Sweden
- New locations in 2024
