Well, here we are. We are declaring the official end of our 2025 growing season. For the last seven months straight, we’ve spent time with you practically every single day, writing about our growing efforts, experiences, knowledge and practices. We hope that you’ve found it helpful and that we’ve been a valuable resource for you.
In case you’re new around here, we take a break over most of the winter months. We don’t entirely disappear, occasionally popping in to say hello or share garden or preservation related projects we might be working on. We largely use the winter months to rest, recover and recharge. Our Alaskan lifestyle drives us incredibly hard over the summer months, we’ve found it valuable to our physical and mental health to slow things down a lot for the winter.
To all of you that commented on, liked and shared our posts this season – thank you! As small creators, these small gestures truly matter to us and are responsible for our growth. We’ll tell you, this social media stuff is getting harder and harder by the day! There’s a lot out there vying for your attention, so we deeply appreciate the time you’ve spent with us this season.
We also hope that you enjoyed our curation and diversity of topics this season. We try to keep things fresh, interesting and different each year, repeating only the most important and timely of information. We regret the many topics we just didn’t touch, our backlog of posts and ideas that just didn’t make it are immense this year. And if we missed something you really wanted us to talk about, hopefully next season!
We use some of the winter months to write and refine articles for our website, FrostyGarden.com, where you can find even deeper dives into various cold climate gardening topics, 365 days of the year. We have some good ones to write this winter, inspired by this season, and we suspect that you’ll really enjoy them. We “connected a lot of dots” this year with our deep nutritional and pH related studies, so more to come on that!
Since we’re on the topic of that website, let’s discuss Frosty Garden’s shoestring budget. Several years ago, the resources we needed to operate our site shifted well beyond “hobby class” and into “real website” territory, serving hundreds of thousands of visitors each year. We insist that it remains ad and junk free, a breath of fresh air on the internet. Yet, this stuff costs us real money, every single month. We decided that, once a year, we’d do a small voluntary fundraiser to help us bear the burden of sharing our knowledge.
Down in the comments, you’ll find a link where you can learn more about our expenses and plea. We think it’s important to do all the work up front, so you get your value first. We are grateful to our most dedicated supporters, you really help us continue our efforts each year. Our goal has never been to profit, rather to contribute freely and maybe that can result in something that looks like sustainability for the project. Even a simple “coffee” helps us, a lot.
While we’re looking forward to some rest, we’re all ready eyeballing the 2026 growing season! The grueling subarctic winter is long for us, but it’s really only four more months until we start all over again with our first seed sowing of the season! It’ll go by quick, then we’ll be back in the thick of it again!
We never set out to operate the world’s leading subarctic gardening blog or to have a significant following on social media. We can’t thank you all enough for encouraging our efforts, helping us to refine our purpose and being a part of our journey. Thank you all for being with us this season and we look forward to seeing you all again, soon!
