Farming 101↗
no01.substack.com
Opens in full prepper register (Strait of Hormuz, fertiliser shocks, food prices coming for you in 6 to 18 months) and I nearly stopped reading. But once the doom clears, it turns into a genuinely useful primer on growing at home from seed: what to start indoors, what goes straight in the ground in April, why soil matters more than anything else, and the unromantic economics of a £3 tomato packet. I grow a fair bit from seed myself—herbs, tomatoes, courgettes, strawberries, even purple cauliflower this year—and there’s something to the argument that you get to enjoy more of nature’s lifecycle this way, rather than the garden-centre-to-windowsill-to-compost-bin shortcut. Worth it if you’re thinking about planting anything this year.