Homesteaders Alliance

04/03/2025

03/27/2025

Are you getting itchy to get a garden started? Join us!
In this week's meeting we will help each other plan our gardens, talk about beneficial plants to keep the pests away, and start the process of planning a Copley Community Garden for 2026!!

The snacks will be better this time, maybe we will do chili.
See you at the Feed Store!!

03/02/2025

TO ALL WHO CAME TO THE FIRST GARDEN CLUB MEETING, THANK YOU!! WOOT!!

I think we had a GREAT mix of experiences and goals, just what we wanted🙏

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To recap what was discussed🗣️
🌱Goal of Garden Club: to get a garden in every possible backyard for food security, helping others who can't, and passing the passion and knowledge for growing our own food to young people before it disappears.
👌Group consensus, for now, is leaning towards ORGANIC methods. (knowing NPK traditional is more effective quickly)
😒Why did peppers suck last year? (not enough P&K, Ph issues too high, too much N, sub par pollination as possible causes to fix this year)
💩 ISO horse and cow manure free of herbicides. (or ones that are non detectable within a week)
🥫Looking for start to finish support. (starts, plants, fertilizer, preservation. (some people with a lot of experience with canning came)
💦 Drip irrigation people with experience showed up and offered to help anyone get started. Game changer for consistent crops!
❤️ A COPLEY Community Garden and Farmer's Market were spoken into the Ether!!

NEXT MEETING PRIORITIES
1. Bring your garden plan, or we will help each other
2. When and what we are planting this year
3. Help constructing raised beds and drip irrigation (budgets and muscle)
4. COPLEY FM & CG brainstorming proposals
5. Better snacks
6. Steve Seyerle stop calling soil, dirt!
7. Chicken talk for new coups this year

See you all April 5th, I am so thankful and excited!
You need ZERO experience to join the club, NO politics, NO judgement. Garden Club is for EVERYONE!

02/26/2025

🪴🪴🪴REMINDER🍅🍅🍅🍅

Garden Club THIS Saturday, 6pm at Copley Feed.

We will discuss the goals for this year and the two main fertilizer approaches NPK vs Organic.

We need BOTH experienced gardeners and newbies

See you at the Feed Store!

Send a message to learn more

02/22/2025

Don't miss the first meeting of Homesteader's Alliance Garden Cub hosted at Copley Feed & Supply.
1468 S. Cleveland Massillon Rd. Saturday, March 1st at 6pm.
If you need help planning, building, starting, or finishing a garden, or want to help others grow their own food - Join Us!
In our first meeting we will-
🥕Connect with each other
🥕Make a plan
🥕Discuss the NPK vs Organic approach
Coffee and snacks will be provided. Please bring treats to share if you like.
See you at the feed store!

12/26/2024

Lets make a plan to plant a garden this year!
You can turn any small patch of grass or even pots on concreate into your food.
There are SO MANY great grow calendars out there. This one from Old Farmers Almanac is by zip code.
It's so rewarding to grow you own food and a great way to connect your kids to skills and long term rewards from hard work.
Are you IN?

The planting calendar below tells you when to plant in the SPRING and also plant in the FALL, based on your zip code or postal code.

12/14/2024

Dave! This DIY fence extension took a day and cost $100.

12/14/2024

First Homesteaders Alliance meeting notes:

1. Planting calendar for 2025
2. Content on DIY projects
3. Swapping forum for produce, eggs, and milk

Thank you to everyone who attended. Next meeting TBA late January.

10/31/2024

https://homesteadersalliance.org/

A community of homesteaders in Copley Township, Ohio.

10/20/2024

Took a little longer today, but the weather was nice!

09/21/2024

Happy Saturday!

Would a podcast interviewing seasoned(old) homesteaders, gardeners, hunters, and food prepers be something you would listen to 🤨

09/14/2024

Let us create a group of like-minded citizens of Copley with a passion for Homesteading, Hunting, Gardening, and Conservation.