Understanding Your Growing Zone

This guide takes you inside the realities of growing zones across the United States, the Caribbean, and Canada, showing how climate extremes shape every planting decision you make. Through a gritty, second-person instructional tone, you learn how to read your land’s true limits—cold snaps, heat waves, microclimates, storms, humidity shifts, and freeze cycles—and how these forces determine whether your crops live or die. The series pushes you to see beyond the map, understand the science behind plant survival, and build a planting strategy tough enough to withstand the harshest seasons.