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About Victory Gardens For Life

“God planted a garden . . . and there He put the man whom He had formed.”(Genesis 2:8, NKJV)

Enjoy a fresh perspective on the historic Victory Gardens.

Practical instruction, training, wisdom, and inspiration needed to build and grow your own Victory Garden for Life: a life that humbly reconnects us with the invisible attributes of God, while yielding a bountiful harvest of fresh food. Your guide and companion on this journey is life-long agriculturalist Fred Billings joined by his colleagues from around the world.

Victory Gardens For Life

Directed by
Sondra Martin Hicks
Episodes
33 in 4 seasons
Price
Free to watch

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How to Grow a Victory Garden

17 episodes

  1. Episode 1 · 11:31

    Planning your Garden

  2. Episode 2 · 7:00

    How To Establish A Garden

    Step by step instructions to creating your own garden.

  3. Episode 3 · 11:00

    How to plant transplants in trays

    Fred explains which plants to transplant and preparing the soil.

  4. Episode 4 · 2:50

    Watering Transplants

    How to Water Transplants so they are not damaged.

  5. Episode 5 · 3:45

    Mulching

    Foundations for Farming CEO Matt Mbanga demonstrates how and why to cover your beds.

  6. Episode 6 · 17:26

    Planting and Transplanting Garden Instruction

    Fred shows how to set up the row and plant seeds in the garden and transplants.

  7. Episode 7 · 3:00

    Tools in the Garden

    Fred suggests 4 gardening tools.

  8. Episode 8 · 3:38

    Mulching - How, What, and Why

  9. Episode 9 · 7:00

    Planting A Garden in Small Spaces

    Fred demonstrates how to utilize 1 pot to grow multiple vegetables.

  10. Episode 10 · 3:30

    Feeding Your Garden With Fertilizer Tea

    A demonstration of making fertilizer tea and how to use it.

  11. Episode 11 · 2:15

    Feeding Your Garden with Granular Fertilizer

    A demonstration of feeding your garden with granular fertilizer.

  12. Episode 12 · 5:00

    Feeding your Garden With Foliar Fertilizer

    Fred demonstrates how to mix and apply.

  13. Episode 13 · 2:15

    What is Side Dressing and Explanation of Nutsedge weed

  14. Episode 14 · 1:30

    Cultivating Weeds

    Best and Easiest practices.

  15. Episode 15 · 5:24

    Harvesting Leafy Greens

  16. Episode 16 · 2:57

    Tying Tomato Plants

  17. Episode 17 · 3:45

    Releasing Insects

Class Instruction

11 episodes

  1. Episode 1 · 24:00

    Class Instruction 1 - The Living Soil

    In our first class, Instructor/Farmer Fred Billings teaches on the qualities of soil and what the soil needs to be fruitful.

  2. Episode 2 · 19:50

    Class Instruction 2 - Plant Growth

    Fred discusses the 5 Factors that influence plant growth

  3. Episode 3 · 32:45

    Class Instruction 3 - Soil Preparation and Planning

  4. Episode 4 · 18:30

    Class Instruction 4 - Seeds and Plants

    Seeds and Plants

  5. Episode 5 · 24:29

    Class Instruction 5 - Transplanting and Thinning

  6. Episode 6 · 32:03

    Class Instruction 6 - Cultivation and Weed Control

  7. Episode 7 · 23:36

    Class Instruction 7 - More Cultivation and Mulches

  8. Episode 8 · 8:14

    Class Instruction 8 - Feed the Crop

  9. Episode 9 · 28:10

    Class Instruction 9 - Insect Management

  10. Episode 10 · 26:08

    Class Instruction 10 - Disease Management

  11. Episode 11 · 24:47

    Class Instruction 11 - Harvest and Handling

The Current Food Crisis

4 episodes

  1. Episode 1 · 2:56

    China is Hoarding Food

  2. Episode 2 · 22:57

    Food shortage Coming

    Interview with Fred Billings about the current food situation.

  3. Episode 3 · 40:00

    Food Shortage Eliminated in Zimbabwe

    Food insecurity has been erased in Zimbabwe and Matt Mbanga with Foundations for Farming tells us how that has happened.

  4. Episode 4 · 2 min

    Why God Made A Farmer - by Paul Harvey

    A beautiful tribute to farmers.

Victory Garden Resources

1 episode

  1. Episode 1 · 4:09

    The Rhizosphere: an interaction between plant roots and soil biology

    Learn about the Rhizosphere - a term given to the thin region of soil around a root hair where interactions occur between the root and microorganisms within the soil.

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