Free resources for Zone 6a gardeners
Everything here is free. These are the tools I wish I'd had when I started gardening twenty years ago in Bay City.
Interactive Tools
Enter your last frost date and get a personalized planting schedule for 50+ vegetables, herbs, flowers, and fruits. Includes indoor start dates, transplant timing, and direct sow windows — all calculated from your specific microclimate.
Downloadable Guides
A printable 6-page field guide covering 15+ crops organized by difficulty. Pollination types, isolation distances, harvest methods, seed viability charts, and storage instructions. Print it and hang it in your shed.
More tools coming. For in-depth growing guides and seasonal writing, visit Freighter View Farms.
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