You can learn step by step how we get a large garden EVERY year!
Ready to grow a garden that actually produces a good amount of food?
Instead of drooling over social media gardens, start growing your own! Can't get anything to grow? Well, this is where you learn.
Welcome to The Effortless Garden(er)
Your best friends in gardening.
The Effortless Garden(er) is an online course designed to help beginner gardeners grow food and scale your garden with without having grown anything before.
Using these same gardening methods as us, we can grow enough food for fresh eating, donating or selling as well as enough to preserve for at least one year. Sometimes more!
No, you don't need acres of land
No, you don't need to have grown food before
No, you don't have to know what you're doing
All you need is the desire to grow a garden
Hi, We're Jordyn and Kay!
Hi, we are Jordyn and Kay Clark, a mother and daughter in law duo who love spending their days in the garden, growing food! Now, don't worry-- we aren't in the garden all day long. Although we wish we were!
Kay has been gardening since birth-- with her mom but stopped for a brief time due to moving around for her husbands corporate job. About 15 years ago, she moved back into the house she grew up in and took over her moms large garden. Getting back to her roots, growing food, trying new things, preserving it all and teaching Jordyn along the way. She has 30 years of gardening experience!!
You'll probably not even belive this but I (Jordyn) never grew up with a garden. Well, I take that back, my grandpa always grew one and his raspberries were the best...ahh brings back so many childhood memories. But I was a military brat and that means you move a lot. So growing and preserving food was not something I even knew about!! We shopped at the store.
Most people believe that you need to have a massive amount of space to grow a large garden that produces enough to preserve but The Effortless Garden(er) is here to prove that you don't.
When Kay moved back to Washington, she kind of took over what her mom was doing and what she was taught. But something we wish we knew was that there are better and more productive ways to garden. And sometimes you learn these things from other people who have a different gardening experience than you. And instead of giving up the second something didn't work, we learn how to work around and make it better or learn to live with it.
So, we are here to be that person for you. We know how difficult and confusing it can be to have to search instagram and google for the answers you need but all the answers are different or they are completely wrong advice. This isn't the way of gardening anymore.
We've helped hundreds of people grow successful gardens just based off our instagram tips, so can you imagine what you'll be able to learn inside full video lessons?
How We Got Here
My journey to the garden wasn't as simple as it could have been.
Remember when I said we shopped at the store because of military life? Okay keep that in mind, but when I first moved here, Kay would grow her garden and I would still shop at the grocery store. I didn't know what the heck I was doing so I was not going to mess with it. I am so embarrassed to admit it but I was so scared of the garden. I didn't want to mess it up!!
My husband, Bryce would utilize her garden when he was cooking dinner. The first thing I noticed was how much fresher the food tasted. Then I noticed how much longer it lasted in the refrigerator versus store bought. I was shocked. Things would last weeks.
That eventually got me thinking...how old is the food I'm buying from the grocery store? Why is it going bad SO fast? It's such a waste.
When you start thinking those thoughts about food, naturally you spiral into "where does my food even come from"???
I had no idea!!
Except, when I use the garden, I knew exactly where the food came from. It came from the plant right outside. It went from the vine to my plate. Literally no where else! At this time, I became fascinated with the fact that you could have the exact foods you purchase right in your own yard that tastes a million times better and requires nothing else but some soil, water and sun.
That's when I realized...
I didn't need the grocery store anymore for these types of things! I could do this (or help Kay) and grow my own food!
As soon as Kay would go out to the garden I was right there with her and trying to learn everything she knew about how to grow a garden. What getting started looked like, why we needed compost, how to harvest, correct watering, dealing with bugs and so on. I needed to know it all because there was no way I wasn't going to do this.
Next gardening season happened and I was there helping her plan it out and making sure we had enough food for her and for me because HELLO I was here and I'm using it now!
Thankfully, she was willing to share her garden knowledge with me because I now have the skills that can grow a garden, effortlessly.
What does an effortless garden look like?
That's up to you!
For us, it means making gardening part of your lifestyle and truly enjoying it.
It means planning your garden once and tweaking it based on that years needs.
It means knowing how to handle pests and bugs when they get to your garden.
It means you know what you eat and what you need to plant, without stressing over buying seeds.
It means knowing how to prep your soil, how to read seed packets and knowing your planting dates and times to successfully start a garden.
It's knowing how to stay motivated to finish your gardening season strong and start a fall garden to grow even more food.
What does your dream garden look like? With The Effortless Garden(er), it's closer than you might think!
We created The Effortless Garden(er) so you can...
1. Grow a garden from start to finish
2. Grow enough food for fresh eating and preservation
3. Learn and know where your food comes from
4. Feed your family and rely less on the grocery store
How Would You Have It?
1. Spend years trying to grow a garden that doesn't get good yields, while trying to weed through information online that doesn't actually take the time to learn your situational needs
OR
2. Have a step by step plan to grow a garden in the space you currently have and learn how to scale it when you're ready?
Yeah, I'll take option 2 please!
But how do you do it?
ENROLL NOWPresenting: The Effortless Garden(er)
What is The Effortless Garden(er)?
The Effortless Garden(er) is an online course full of lessons designed by a master gardener and a new gardener to help you plan, prepare and grow a garden. It doesn't matter if you've never grown a garden before, or have a small backyard to grow in- we can teach you how to successfully grow food and learn to scale it so you can produce even more!
What makes us unique is while Kay has years of knowledge, Jordyn doesn't. Which means we can piece together the important information you need to know that is easy to understand. These lessons are designed for you to take simple steps and put them into action.
This isn't some weird marketing tactic or false advertisements, we've had people tell us that they've been able to grow a garden just by our tips on Instagram. Plus, we grow a massive garden every year and this year, we're almost doubling it! This strategy for planning WORKS! Let us help you!
Here's what you'll learn in The Effortless Garden(er)!
If you're looking for details, look no further!
Let's break it down, module by module. This is just an overview. There's way more in each module like videos, worksheets, homework and more. When watched in order, the Effortless Garden(er) teaches you what you need to know in order. Watching it this way builds a strong gardening foundation. This is important because when these lessons are understood, everything else in gardening becomes simpler.
You can also use each module to search for videos and lessons you need. We meet you where you're at. Think YouTube but exclusive and without the internet trolls.
Module 1
Why You Should Garden
-FOOD INSECURITIES
-YOUR MINDSET AND GARDENING
-TRUSTED GARDENING SOURCES
Getting motivated by what's going on in the world today with our food, changing the way you see and interact with your garden and being able to find trusted sources are the first step into growing a garden.
Module 2
Prepare to Plan Your Garden
- BUDGET
- WHERE TO GARDEN
- KNOW YOUR CLIMATE
- HARDINESS ZONE
- FROST DATES
- COOL WEATHER & SHORT GROWING DAYS
- HOT CLIMATES
- EVER CHANGING CLIMATES
- PERENNIAL VS ANNUALS
- TIME MANAGEMENT WITH KIDS AND FULL TIME JOBS
Learning about your area prior to planting will make gardening easier each season. It takes the guess work out of a lot things!
Module 3
Planning Your Garden
-SOIL
- IN GROUND OR RAISED BED GARDENING
- SEEDS VS STARTS
- UTILIZING THE NURSERY
- WATERING SYSTEMS
- SUPPLIES NEEDED TO GET STARTED
- PREP YOUR BEDS
- WHAT TO GROW
- CROP ROTATION
If you fail to plan your garden, then you're planning to fail. Take these steps to get set up so you can grow food.
Module 4
Let's Get Planting
- PLANT PROFILES- HOW TO PLANT YOUR VEGGIES, PROPER PLANT AND ROW SPACING, CORRECT WATERING, HOW TO GROW USING A TRELLIS, WHEN TO HARVEST, HOW TO HARVEST
- READY TO PLANT STARTS AND SEEDS
- GERMINATION
- WATERING
- SUCCESSION PLANTING
- COMPANION PLANTING
We will be teaching how to plant the veggies so you can have the best success with them and get the most out of your garden.
Module 5
Your plants are growing, now what?
- FEEDING
- PESTS
- DISEASE
- DAILY TASKS
- HARVEST
- EATING WHAT’S IN SEASON & COOKING WITH PRODUCE
Now that your plants are growing you can't neglect them! This is where people give up on their garden. The best is yet to come!
Module 6
End of the Season
-PRESERVING
-BUMPER CROPS
-CLEANING IT UP
-COVER CROP & PUTTING BEDS TO SLEEP
-CROP ROTATION
Prep your beds and prepare for the end of season and learn what to do for next season.
Frequently Asked Questions
My Climate is Different Than Yours, Will You Still Be Able To Help Me?
I Currently Live In A Rental, Will This Help?
My Garden Space Is Always In The Shade, Will I Be Able To Grow Anything?
I Can't Garden Because of Bugs and Critters, Do You Know How To Stop It?
Imagine This...
You growing food for your family
Teaching your family where food comes from
Relying less on the grocery store
Being in control of the food you eat
Knowing where your food came from and how it was handled
Peace of mind knowing you can grow food
This isn't a dream life, this is something that's 100% possible with the right plan and support from someone that's already living that life.
Who is this membership for?
The Effortless Gardener is for you if:
-You want to know where your food comes
-You're tired of attempting to garden and nothing grows
-You've been trying to research gardening and keep find conflicting information that gets you nowhere
-You start gardening season off strong but can never finish
-You want to scale your garden
But it's not for everyone. You might want to wait if:
-You want to keep your garden where it's at
-You don't want to learn new & consistent ways of growing
-You aren't willing try new things
A letter to you...
Hi, Jordyn & Kay here.
We totally understand where you are coming from, it's okay to be unsure at first. I was unsure about learning to garden myself, I didn't think I could learn it. I felt like Kay knew so much and there just wasn't enough time to absorb it all and be successful.
I'm going to be totally honest with you, the thing is, being unsure is a scary place. I was always nervous Kay would find out that I was using the grocery store instead of the garden. What I can tell you is that if you keep thinking about that garden you want to grow and wondering if you should do it, those feelings are going to drive you crazy!! I know, they drove me crazy when I bought the food instead.
It wasn't until I took a chance and did something totally different from the norm that I grew up with, that I realized learning and doing things a new or different way aren't so scary. And that you can make a change in your lifestyle, especially if you have someone to help you out along the way.
Think about the pros and cons: stay safe, don't try to garden but keep living the life you're still living OR take a chance with someone that's done this and has been gardening successfully for over thirty years and create the dream garden you've always wanted.
Well? We're ready for you inside The Effortless Garden(er)!
