Give your family the most nutrient-dense, local food that money can't buy

Make your organic at-home food garden finally a reality!

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Perhaps you have:

Tried gardening before but those pesky squirrels / rabbit / gophers / deer ate your lettuce before you could harvest them.
Sometimes the right kind of fencing can make all the difference.
Nurtured your fruit tree but find it fails to produce fruit every year.
Some trees take longer than others to produce fruit. Some trees, need the right amount of nutrition.
Inherited a shade garden but feel like nothing useful or edible can grow in that space.
Many of our perennial edibles are shade-tolerant. It's just a matter of knowing your plant types.
Wanted to grow your own food for a while now, but don't know where to begin.
We've got you covered!

Wouldn't it be nice if you...

Could grow your own produce at home (no matter the size of your yard)
Knew which plants were perfect for your climate, soil, and sunlight needs
Had a garden that produced enough to feed your family all year long

Well, now you can!

Introducing... Grow-It-Yourself / GIY!

GIY is a 12-month membership to ensure that your organic gardening efforts are

simplified
strategic &
successful!

You’ll learn how to:

design your garden space
create a list of plants that are perfect for your location, and
have access to the resources and tools to grow an abundant garden.

Join fellow gardeners and grow at least
$700 worth of produce in 10x10 square feet*!

(*And this is a low estimate of what you can grow!)

GIY is a program that makes your food garden dream a reality.

GIY allows you to call any of the following gardens your own:

Backyard Food Forest

Small-Space Veggie Garden

Indoor Garden

But first, a little bit about who we are.

We are the Schauders!

Dave, Nicky and their six children!

Our garden journey began when our first two kids were diagnosed with “failure to thrive” due to multiple food allergies. Because of these health issues we felt called to grow organic at home and now supply 25% of their fruits and veggies from our tiny & shady townhouse backyard.
The more we grew, the better we felt physically, spiritually, and emotionally.
The more we grew, the more people asked us what our secret was. So we started teaching (and continue to teach) at our local Title 1 schools.
Grow-It-Yourself / GIY is the fruit of many years of researching, testing, and implementation combined with the experience of visiting some of our clients in different parts of the US. We wanted to offer something that we wished we had when we were just starting to grow:

Mentorship
Community
Stewardship
& above all,
a HUGE HARVEST!

Why GIY?

If you are:

Horrified by the rising cost of groceries
Frustrated at not being able to find local & organic produce in the market
Mad about the fact that "approximately 13 to 20 million agricultural US acres were treated with 18.7 million pounds of glyphosate annually." (Data from the EPA)
Intimidated about growing your own food
Disappointed that each year the pests get to your veggies before you do
Wanting to grow more food than ever before

Then join a program that makes organic gardening and all its complexities,
simple and strategic for you!

What's included in GIY ?

A self-paced
Garden Course

In this step-by-step permaculture (which means beyond organic) gardening course you will master the very basic but essential skills of seed starting, transplanting, and harvesting. Here are the (9) nine short modules included in the program:

Our motto is: "Plan before your plant"

Learn (10) ten crucial steps in Garden Design that most organic gardeners forget about in (10) ten days.

Whether you have a raised bed, a container gardener or a patio, you will discover how you can maximize your production in the smallest of spaces. And we do this by way of song!

At the end of the module, you will proceed to design your garden in (10) ten minutes!

Each plant is unique, but there's a pattern in knowing which plants have specific lighting requirements, which plants grow at certain times of the year, and which plants to grow in your unique climat.

This short course also shows you where to get:

- regionally-specific
- heirloom / non-GMO / organic
- disease or pest-resistant varieties

saving you countless hours of research and failed growing attempts!

WHEN YOU FINISH THE CORE COURSE, YOU UNLOCK A FREE BONUS LEVEL CALLED,
"THE MASTERCLASSES."
(Unavailable for purchase outside of GIY)

What are you going to do with all that harvest you are hauling from the garden?
Get bonus lessons on canning and preserving your crops!

How can you increase your soil's fertility for next year?
Dig deeper into the science of soil.

What about harvesting water in a dry climate?
There is hope for a self-watering garden, even for those who only get 4 inches of rain a year!

The Masterclasses aim to help us look at our Home Holistically.

It's not just about the harvest right now.

It's about all the things that affect us: our air, our water, our food.

Everything affects everything else, and the Masterclasses aim to connect the spaces in which the garden intersects with life.

Garden Mentorship

Every month you will meet with an experienced and accredited permaculture gardener. The benefits of having someone experienced look over your design and process are:

You can troubleshoot any problems (think unexpected pests or plant disease) that arise from your unique growing situation.
You get the encouragement from someone who has been there before and still managed to grow a harvest!
You get accountability from a real, live, human person, to keep you on track with the garden goals so you never get stuck!

These calls are the heart of GIY because behind every garden is a person and often a family with their own specific needs. A garden mentor is someone who is accredited in permaculture gardening, can see the big picture, and encourage you towards your next garden goals and keep you committed!

GIY includes group coaching calls and
monthly 1:1 mentoring for 12 months!

Community

For the 12 months that you are in our program, enjoy the benefit of being part of a private non-Facebook community where you can:

Get clear, directed solutions to any garden problems in a safe, non-judgmental online space
Learn from fellow gardeners who have done the program for many years and continue to garden with challenges and many successes
Ask your specific questions about dealing with rabbits, poor soil, container gardening and so much more!
Easily find the answers to frequently asked questions using an intuitive search function in the forums.
Get inspired by progress pictures the community posts of their gardens.
Share your progress and celebrate your wins with fellow gardeners across the globe!

Resources to Support You

Don't know where to begin? Or know exactly what you want to grow, but not quite sure whether your plant combinations grow well together?

Check out the resource design templates & workbooks to springboard your garden planning! In GIY, you get access to a regularly updated archive of:

Raised bed garden plans to ensure you have a diverse array of plants to confuse the pests with!
Seasonal checklists to help you make sure that you are caring for your tools, the soil, and preparing for unexpected weather.
A Seed & Plant Shopping Guide so that you know where to source non-GMO, organic, and heirloom seeds and plants
A Plant Calculator, a proprietary tool to help you calculate the number of plants you need to grow to feed your specific family.
Your Garden Installation Day Checklist so that you can prepare all the materials and plants you need weeks before you break ground
A printable "Planting Calendar" that helps you plot what days you will be starting your seeds, transplanting them outdoors, and harvesting your crops.

and so much more!

Rewards for achieving Milestones

We've seen our most successful gardeners become more motivated and excited to grow when they know that there are rewards at stake.

Because of this, we've included GIY challenges and contests throughout the year. We try to celebrate even your small wins by rewarding you with:

Seeds
Berry plants of your choice
Figs
Goumi berry and elderberry cuttings for you to root and grow
Handmade dibbers made from reclaimed wood
Artisan & US-made garden spades
Handcrafted pollinator habitats

SAGE: A Garden Design App

COMING SOON!

As a GIY Member you get exclusive access to the latest version of this app before its release to the public in the spring of 2023.

What do you get when you combine garden know-how and technology? An app that takes the guesswork out of figuring out what to plant and when.

This software includes a planting calendar and a garden designer that will remind you when it's time to start, transplant, or harvest your crops. How cool is that?

We are garden geeks! Research and development is in our blood. We're always finding new ways to innovate and make gardening easier for everyone.

The True Cost of GIY

You get all of this for one year
PLUS! The power of knowing how to grow your own food

Your Cost
$999/year

Or a monthly payment plan of $99/month X 12,
you get all the above,
PLUS! the power of knowing how to grow more abundantly each year.

YOU GET:

The Core Course: A step-by-step, 9-module garden course,
Garden Mentorship: Access to an accredited garden mentor,
Community: The support and inspiration of an exclusive online garden community,
Resources: Invaluable planning worksheets, PDFs, cheat-sheets,
Rewards: Plant prizes for the work you put into your garden, mailed to you,
And SAGE, a garden design app to simplify planning even more.

More importantly, you learn to grow food abundantly, season after season!

Some gardeners spend this much on one trip to their local garden center.

But they won't get the ongoing, 12-month support that you'll be getting from a GIY membership.

They won't know what to do when the pests come and decimate your kale.

They won't know why their plants died and what they could have done to keep them alive.

You've tried it alone.

Perhaps hopelessly trying to YouTube your way to garden success.

It's time for a more intentional approach.

It's time to:

Join GIY!

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Successful Gardens from our GIY Members

In just (3) three months after joining GIY, Nicole transformed her once barren backyard into a pollinator-friendly, veggie garden!

Lisa's garden is intentionally designed to be prepared for unexpected weather patterns (see the cover for hail in the background) and squash bugs!

Through GIY Amy is learning to identify the crop varieties that do well in her Pacific Northwest climate, like swiss chard!

FAQs

Absolutely!

If, after you've taken full advantage of this course, having done the work that is required to earn you more than your investment in the program (see next FAQ as to what that entails), you still feel that GIY has not paid you back in being able to grow your own food more abundantly,

we will happily give you a FULL REFUND within 30 days.

For people who pay for the program but withdraw before 30-days, and do not fully participate in GIY (as stated above), we give a partial refund and reserve the right to decline their future participation in GIY if they ask to join the program again.

Ultimately, your garden progress depends on your sporting spirit and the work that you put into the program over the course of (1) one year.

Payment Options

You can pay Permaculture Gardens via cash (in-person), check, or an approved payment card.

To make our Grow-It-Yourself program affordable, we have (2) two options for Payment available.

Option 1: Annual Payment of $999 for 12 months of Membership to GIY
or
Option 2: Monthly Payment plan of $99/month for 12 months of Membership to GIY.

OPTION 1: Annual Payment of $999 (The more straightforward, more cost-saving option)

The GIY (12) twelve-month program’s annual cost is $999 USD.
After 12 months, GIY Members renew at this price automatically unless they contact us with a request not to auto-renew. We will let you know (1) one month before renewing your GIY Membership.

OPTION 2: Monthly Payment Plan of $99 per month for 12 months

If the payment plan option is chosen, a GIY Member will pay $99 monthly for 12 months.

GIY Cancellation Policy

If you decide to cancel your GIY Membership within 30 days, you will receive a partial or full refund contingent upon your FULL PARTICIPATION in GIY.

You may cancel your registration to GIY anytime within the 12-month membership period. However, you will receive NO REFUND after 30 days.

If you cancel your GIY Membership and are on a monthly payment plan, you are committed to remit payment for the remainder of the 12-month Membership.

For example, if you joined in January and want to cancel your Membership in April, you would still pay your GIY membership dues for the remaining nine months from May to December.

Once you sign-up for GIY, the default is for members to be on automatic yearly renewal.

You can cancel this automatic renewal at any time.

We also warn all our GIY clients via email a few weeks before the annual renewal takes place.

If you do choose to join GIY, but do not want to be automatically renewed for next year. We can put you in a non-automatic renewal mode. Just let us know via email (permaculturegardens@gmail.com) so that we can switch the mode manually.

Insider Tip! GIY Members renew at half the price that they bought GIY at.

I have a shady garden?
Our backyard is a shady garden, and yet the majority of our harvest comes from the backyard! We've grown about 300 lbs of fruits and veggies annually in a tiny & shady townhouse!
I live in an arid desert?
Our best gardeners come from Arizona, Utah, and California.
We have a drylands specialist to help answer specific questions unique to arid climates. This hot climate led us to permaculture in the first place when we found out that it was used to "green the desert!"
I have too much pest pressure?
We have dealt with all sorts of raccoons, squirrels, deer, rats, you name it since we live in a developed suburban area that backs out into a strip mall. We have tons of pests, maybe not bears. And lots of mosquitoes.
In the end, it's a matter of setting up your ecosystem, so that the good bugs/animals outnumber the bad ones. And that's what we teach inside the program.
I don't have enough time?
First, the membership includes access to a time management program called "My Success Schedule," which helps anyone struggling with finding time for the important things in life.

Our research will SAVE you time from countless hours researching and finding the wrong answers!

We have duplicated our process with over a hundred families across America, Canada, Hungary, the UK, Australia, and even someone who lived on a boat!

If you have 15 minutes a day, that is all you need.
I don't have the money?
If you have money for groceries, this program will pay you back your investment and allow you to even EARN money from which to live on, PROVIDED you are willing to put in the work required.

See FAQ #2 for the required work: FULL PARTICIPATION IN GIY.

Who is GIY for?

IF YOU:

Have space to grow in (even a tiny space)
Have a yearning to grow your own food and do it abundantly
Want to grow organically and in harmony with nature
Are in need of a garden mentor who has been in your shoes and can save you from newbie gardener pitfalls?
Teach your children where their food comes from?
Heal the planet and your body
Want the assurance of knowing you can grow food no matter where you live, even if the groceries shut down
Want the most local and nutrient-dense food that money can't buy

THEN GIY IS FOR YOU!

Happy Gardener Testimonials

Nicole is a Suzuki violin teacher and a homeschooling mom who has very little time to grow. She considers the garden her 'happy place."

Listen in on how Lisa's journey started with her son's allergies and how growing her own food gives allows her to feed her kids the best kind of food money can't buy.

Sandy grows in the toughest climate there is: the deserts of Arizona. She manages to grow 300 lbs. a year since joining GIY.

Emily is an authority on the connection between nutrition and PCOS. She passes on her food-growing skills to her kids.

"Nicky's garden design for my backyard is not only beautiful but maximizes space & uses permaculture principles that lead me to grow more veggies than I thought possible in my tiny space!"

Nicole F., Virginia

"The first module of the GIY course alone was a game-changer for me!"

Tracy P., Georgia

"I want to let you both know how much I enjoyed gardening and GIY this summer! Thank you!!!"

Amanda, California

"Nicky and Dave are kind and caring and compassionate people that have helped me through successes and failures in my garden, and I have far better results than I have ever had before!

The true principles that are taught apply to any gardener, and the community provides support and accountability all through the journey.
This is one of the best investments I have ever made in a program."

Sandy S., Arizona

Need to ask a question about GIY?

We're all ears. Email us at permaculturegardens@gmail.com.