The SEED To PANTRY Planner. Jennifer Osuch

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      LONDON • NASHVILLE • MELBOURNE • VANCOUVER

      One Year To A Complete, Clean, Curated, Chock-Full Cupboard

      Hello and thank you for purchasing The Seed To Pantry Planner: Grow, Cook, and Preserve A Year’s Worth Of Food. I’m Jennifer from Seed To Pantry School, and if you’re interested in growing, cooking, and preserving your own food, this is the planner for you. You can certainly do all three—grow, cook, and preserve—and this planner is designed to get you there, but it doesn’t have to be all or nothing for you to benefit from using it. In short, filling out the following pages will help you take control of your food, and all that means to you.

      I’ve included charts to help you go from seed to jar, or from jar to seed, depending on your perspective.

      This planner is divided into three parts: what you need to plan for Yearly, Monthly, and Weekly.

      Yearly

      Start with the desired result, or as Stephen Covey said, “Begin with the end in mind.” You need to know where you’re going: exactly how much food would you like to preserve this year? How much would you like to grow? How much food will you cook? Then take those numbers and put them into an action plan. After all, a goal without action is just a dream, right?

      Filling out the yearly goal pages will help you make growing and preserving enough food for your family a reality, and even more than that, it will give you a record of what you are capable of doing, giving you motivation and data for years to come.

      Monthly

      This planner is designed to be a daily planner for helping you grow, cook, and preserve, but it is also a planner for life. You’ll find monthly calendars and budgeting sheets in the monthly section. There are a few things that need to be tracked on a monthly basis, like monthly goals. Keeping track of goals every month is a great way to see progress and a way to make sure those action steps are being taken.

      Weekly

      In the weekly section, you can see your week at a glance and also have room for meal planning. Taking advantage of the meal planning section will save you a ton of time and money. It’s well-documented that planning meals helps you eat healthy for a lot less out of pocket.

      If You’ve Never Used A Planner Before

      Using a planner can seem overwhelming; after all there is so much to write and so much to plan…

      The thing is that nothing will be gained by keeping these pages blank. If you forget for a few days, weeks, or even months, it’s really no big deal—just begin where you are. The alternative is a blank book and that’s NOT what you or I want.

      For those that write things “outside the lines” and feel bad about it later or are afraid of being messy—DON’T! Life is messy so it’s perfectly fine for your planner to be messy too…just make sure you can read the important parts.

      Seed To Pantry Wheel of Knowledge

      If you are a member of Seed To Pantry School, you’ll recognize certain elements in this planner. It’s designed to help you reach your Purple Ribbon status by helping you grow, cook, preserve, live naturally, and make handmade gifts.

      In short, this planner will help your journey from seed to pantry by allowing you to track your progress.

      Please keep in touch and let me know how you are using this book.

      Take care,

      Jennifer

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