Only by growing some food for yourself can you become acquainted with the beautiful energy cycle that revolves from soil to seed to flower to fruit to food to offal to decay and around again. You will be fully responsible for any food that you grow for yourself, and you will know all about it. You will appreciate it fully, having known it all its life.

Wendell Berry

If you know your seasons cycle and pay attention to what nature is telling you, you can grow seasonal crops pretty much all year with a couple of modular cold frames. The DC Baltimore area has three gardening seasons. It has a long cool season from November to March, two warm seasons from April to June and again in September - October, and a relatively hot season in July August.

In fact, thanks to its arc of season, the DMV has probably one of the most amenable climates to grow a very productive kitchen garden. But unlike what said a famous billionaire who ran for president a few years ago, you can’t just throw some seeds in the ground, water and hope for the best.

That’s where Victory Gardens comes in.

Like everywhere, success happens in vegetable gardens in the DMV when the setup and the timing is right. And as someone trained as a regenerative farmer in the DMV specifically, I can help you spare a lot of time googling and staring at YouTube videos and remove the guesswork from your DMV kitchen garden. And the first way I can do that is by helping you understand the timing. In fact, let’s do that right now.