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Best Gardening Info, Videos, Sites
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items YouTube channels, websites, tips on dealing with bugs, how to grow various plants, growing year round, and how to save seeds.
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Best Gardening YouTube Channels
Best Gardening Websites
How to Make Money Gardening
Garden Tours
Seed Saving
Best Gardening YouTube Channels
One of the best ways to learn gardening is watching what great gardeners share on YouTube. These are some of my favorite YouTubers who specialize in gardening.
Las Vegas is one of the toughest climates to grow a garden in, but John Kohler's is amazing! Doctors told him he was dying so he started growing his own food. He shares both his garden and gardens he visits.
Learn Organic Gardening at GrowingYourGreens
This is a video of the most subscribed and popular gardening channels on YouTube. Created in 2024, but most gardening doesn't change year-to-year.
Best Gardening YouTube Channels | Most Subscribed Youtube Channels for Gardening.
James Prigioni's New Jersey How to Garden channel
The Gardening Channel With James Prigioni
Very entertaining raised bed Australian gardener I've learned a lot of great tips from plus plants I want to try growing where I am.
Self Sufficient Me
URBAN FARMING on One-Quarter of an Acre: Off-grid with Curtis Stone
Off-Grid with Curtis Stone
Best Gardening Websites
There are some exceptional gardening websites that teach how to garden and sell quality products. I'll keep adding to there and if you leave your favorite sites in the comments, I'll add those, too.l
Known for their growing guides, garden planning content, and amazing raised beds that will last for decades.They have a YouTube channel and two podcasts, (Links in the comments.)
Epic Gardening
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Marjory Wildcraft and The Grow Network have been around a long time. She offers a ton of resources and also has a Substack (link in the comments).
Marjory Wildcraft | The Grow Network
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The cheapest way to get started gardening is explained here.
Grow So Easy Organic Gardening - Beginner Friendly
Although I know “The Seed Guy” as a source of great seeds, they also have excellent content on how to garden.
Gardening Essentials Guide | Heirloom Seeds
You can learn from the online gardening courses, podcasts, videos, and articles on this site.
Garden Advice for beginners through experts from joegardener®
How to Make Money Gardening
People think you need a huge farm to make money growing food. But that isn't true. Here are examples of people making 6 figures from a spare bedroom, one-quarter acre backyards, one acre farms, and indoor growing.
How Living Well Microgreens makes $8,000 a month from their spare bedroom in a rented apartment.
Make $8000+ A Month Growing Microgreens in a Spare Bedroom at Home
How the Grow Moringa Collective outside Tampa, Florida makes over a million dollars growing and processing Moringa using land they don't own.
He Made $1,000,000 Growing This Cash Crop Without Owning Land
How Funky Funji made $200,000 the first year from an indoor commercial mushroom farm.
She Quit Her Job to Start a Mushroom Farm & Makes $200,000 a Year
TINY FARM: How Curtis Stone makes $100k on just one quarter of an acre
THIS IS HOW MY FARM WORKS! - $100K on a quarter acre
No Till farm making $100k per acre per year. John Kohler from Growing Your Greens and the owner Paul Kohler explain the benefits of no-till and why you would want to use it.
Make $100,000 per Acre with Beyond Sustainable No Till Farming a Year
$100k + 80% of their food from ONE ACRE in Arkansas. Whispering Willow tuned in on the most profitable crops to maximize their income.
They Grow 80% of Their Food AND Earn $100K From a 1 Acre Backyard!
Many gardeners make money off YouTube. This one turned his garden into a money-making massive website Epic Garden that grosses $7.5 million a year. (There are a lot of gardening related advertisers around.)
Kevin Espiritu may make the most on importing durable, attractive raised beds from Australia that his audience wanted that weren't readily available in the U.S.
Because of his content, people sent him new products. Another big win was introducing far better seed starting containers. They were so popular that every time they got them in, they sold $20k in 90 seconds!
Kevin says he only spends about 7% of revenue on advertising and the typical amount is 20%. This he attributes to the reach of his content.
In August 2026 he launched raised beds he manufactures instead of importing.
Kevin Espiritu may make the most on importing durable, attractive raised beds from Australia that his audience wanted that weren't readily available in the U.S.
Because of his content, people sent him new products. Another big win was introducing far better seed starting containers. They were so popular that every time they got them in, they sold $20k in 90 seconds!
Kevin says he only spends about 7% of revenue on advertising and the typical amount is 20%. This he attributes to the reach of his content.
In August 2026 he launched raised beds he manufactures instead of importing.
Side Hustle Turned into a $7.5 MILLION a Year Business?!
Garden Tours
Video tours of gardens
James Prigioni's garden and food forest in New Jersey. Also check out his YouTube channel for gardening tips.
Full New Jersey 10 Acre Farm and Garden Tour
Ultimate Mackinac Island Summer Garden Tour 2024 - not a how to raise food kind of video. More of a beautiful gardens to get ideas from video.
You Won't Believe These Gardens Are Real! | Ultimate Mackinac Island Summer Garden Tour 2024
54 Raised Beds Tour with the entertaining Australian gardener named Mark.
ALL 54 Raised Veggie Garden Beds Walk Around Tour (JULY)
Seed Saving
If you want to save your own seeds, this is the section for you. Some are easy and others are more challenging. Also see my separate list for the best small organic, open-pollinated, and heirloom seed companies
Covers breeding basics, seed saving, and seed selection.
Going to Seed
My Benable list of the best small seed companies who carry heirloom, organic, and open-pollinated seeds. These are the companies I buy from that aren't easy to find!
Garden Seeds, open-pollinated, heirloom, organic, non-gmo
The Seed Guy is a great source for great prices on seed collections. This is their page on how to save seed and they should know because they grow the seed the sell. I've bought multiple collections and the germination rates were amazing even after 5...
Seed Saving Guide from "The Seed Guy" who grows what he sells!