{"product_id":"systems-vegetable-garden","title":"The off-grid vegetable garden: Beds, soil and a year of food · Alt Ordo Systems Guide","description":"\u003cp\u003eA vegetable garden is the friendliest system on an off-grid homestead: it needs no power, few tools and no permit in most places. What it does need is sun, steady water, good soil, a fence, and someone who walks out to it most days. This guide builds narrow raised beds you never step on, fills them with a measured topsoil and compost mix, waters them by gravity from a rain tank, and plants them on a calendar keyed to your frost dates. Be honest with yourself about one thing from the start: a garden gives you vitamins, flavor and savings, not most of your calories. Chapter 4 shows why.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis guide helps you choose a sunny spot, test the soil, fence it, build and fill raised beds, water them by gravity from a rain tank, and plant a calendar of crops that keeps two people in fresh vegetables from early spring to the first hard frost.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat's inside.\u003c\/strong\u003e 25 pages in 9 chapters (At a glance, Where it works, How it works, Size it, Parts and cost, Build it, Run it, Rules and permits, How it connects), then the sources and a notes page. 12 numbered figures drawn for this guide, including a fit map of every US county. You also get a worked example with a fill-in worksheet, 11 numbered steps, a year-round calendar, and a troubleshooting table.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThree builds, costed line by line\u003c\/strong\u003e (typical US prices, October 2026):\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBare-bones: $380–$510\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eStandard: $1,570–$2,360\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eComfortable: $5,140–$5,710\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSourced and fact-checked.\u003c\/strong\u003e Facts and figures are cited to the 17 sources listed at the back, and the whole guide was fact-checked before release. General guidance, not engineering advice: your county and a qualified pro have the last word on your site.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePairs with\u003c\/strong\u003e other Alt Ordo Systems Guides: Roof rainwater catchment; Composting; Backyard chickens; Hoop greenhouses; Canning and food preservation; Root cellars. For your county's permits and rules, see our county and state guides.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eInstant PDF download.\u003c\/strong\u003e After checkout you get a download link by email. Letter-size pages, made to read on screen or print at home.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Alt Ordo","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48361170862251,"sku":"AO26-SYS-04","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0615\/4718\/4299\/files\/AO26-SYS-04.jpg?v=1792839819","url":"https:\/\/shop.altordo.com\/products\/systems-vegetable-garden","provider":"Alt Ordo: Build Freedom","version":"1.0","type":"link"}