GrowMap Handbook

Stop battling Nature and start working with it. The GrowMap Handbook is your practical guide to growing strong, self-sufficient plants by better understanding your growing conditions and then choosing plants that grow well in these conditions.

Using the steps in this handbook, you'll quickly collect the information you need for your back yard, community garden, or small farm.

Why You Need a GrowMap

ü  Grow From Your Strengths: By understanding your unique growing conditions, you can select plants that naturally thrive. This reduces the need for fertilizers and other expensive inputs. 

ü  Enhance Food Security: A GrowMap allows you to maximize production during peak seasons and minimizes losses when the weather becomes unpredictable.

ü  Active Site Improvement: Use your knowledge to pick "worker plants" that do the heavy lifting for you - fixing nitrogen, decompacting soil, and attracting beneficial insects to create a self-sustaining ecosystem. 

ü  Build Lasting Resilience: Designing with your land's specific layout in mind prepares your garden to better withstand environmental shocks like droughts, floods, and temperature extremes. 

Expert Results, Simply Done: No specialist skills or expensive surveying equipment required—just a spade, your family, and a few hours of observation.  Whether recording the patterns of sun and shade, exploring how the water runs off, or looking at the health of your soil, tape measures and surveying equipment are not required to create a GrowMap!

What’s Inside

1.      Step-by-Step Mapping: Follow easy instructions to create a visual "base map" of your property.

2.      Condition Checklists: Use simple methods to audit your sun and shade patterns, wind exposure, and water availability.

3.      DIY Soil Health Guide: Learn to assess your "biological workforce" underground without the need for a lab.

4.      Creating Your GrowMap: Master the skill of summarizing and characterizing your specific growing conditions.

5.      Plant Selection Tools: Access resources to help you choose species that are naturally hardy and look after themselves.

6.      Improving Your Growing Conditions: Discover how to use plants and landscaping to enhance your microclimate and help your land recover from droughts and heatwaves. 

Stop exhausted battling and start "healthily tired" harvesting. Get your GrowMap today and give your plants the "five-star catering" they deserve directly from a functioning ecosystem.