| | We Always Knew It: Gardening is GREAT for Your Health! | Besides the obvious benefits of fresh herbs, vegetables, and fruits for your kitchen—if you’re doing vegetable gardening—or the splendor of gorgeous and colorful flowers to adorn your home, if you’re doing flower gardening, studies show that gardening is great for your overall well-being: - Get plenty of vitamin D by being outdoors—good for your bone health!
- Decrease your risk of dementia and Alzheimer’s disease
- Enhance your mood and outlook
- Get regular healthy aerobic exercise and burn calories
- Boost your heart’s health, lower your blood pressure, and avoid stroke
- Relieve stress and boost your self-esteem
- Improve your hand strength and dexterity
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Dear Fellow Gardener,
If you’re like me, you get that exhilarating feeling of accomplishment, satisfaction, and delight when you come inside after a day of gardening—and it doesn’t have to be a day when I harvest some vegetables for supper, snip some chive for my salad, or cut some flowers for my vases. I just enjoy, with gusto, the whole idea of being outside and “working the land.”
Now we know, from study after study, that gardening is good for your health … and in some surprising ways, too! Thank goodness for that—I just knew there had to be real benefit to all this gardening activity!
And it couldn’t come at a better time, because in this era of distractions and disruptions, there’s nothing more I look forward to than getting out in my garden with my spade and my garden hose.
So, I have a special invitation for you today from The Old Farmer’s Almanac, because you’re someone I know will appreciate it.
You are invited to become a Charter Member of The Old Farmer’s Almanac Gardening Club—and save 43% off the retail price of all the new member goodies!
Do you garden for food? For flowers? Or both? The Gardening Club covers all of it, and always with The Old Farmer’s Almanac style: with the common sense, wit, and unerring expertise that’s been earned over the 228 years that it’s been published.
Here’s what you’ll be able to do when you join The Old Farmer’s Almanac Gardening Club as a Charter Member:
- Plan your best garden ever. Take advantage of Almanac gardening advice, planting dates, time-saving tips, and detailed guidance from experts to get your garden growing like never before.
- Blaze a new garden path. Try out some of the growing plans in our jam-packed Garden Guide, where you’ll also learn how to create an island-style environment right where you live, in just two days! Discover how to make a living herb wreath and learn about the Japanese art of small-pot planting.
- Get a green thumbs-up. Amaze your friends and family with your detailed knowledge of planting facts, folklore, and trivia.
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| | Celebrate your Love of Gardening with The Old Farmer's Almanac Gardening Club! |
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| Save 43% with your Gardening Club Charter Membership! |
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| Claim your Old Farmer’s Almanac Gardening Club Charter Membership—save 43% today! | | | |
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And to get down into the weeds (so to speak!) of The Old Farmer’s Almanac Gardening Club, here are just a few examples of the tips, tricks, and info that you’ll get when you become a Charter Member:
- Liven up the indoors with bright and cheerful croton plants.
- Get more cukes by making sure both male and female flowers are blooming at the same time.
- Make your own tea using your own herbal concoctions.
- Cure your boredom of regular red tomatoes by trying a unique, colorful heirloom variety.
- Say hello to yellow raspberries and see why they’re a great choice for your home garden.
- Find out why some trees produce acorns in one year, while others take two seasons.
- Jump for joy by planting edible Johnny-jump-ups and enjoy their mild evergreen flavor.
- Turn straw bales into richly composted planters.
|  | | Modern Science Meets Traditional Gardening Lore | One of the best things about The Old Farmer’s Almanac is its blend of the old and new, astronomy and astrology: It contains a calendar that includes traditional religious holy days, celestial events, high tide heights, and national holidays, as well as planting by the Moon or by frost dates.
So naturally, that’s what you can expect from The Old Farmer’s Almanac Gardening Club—along with a healthy dose of humor, poetry, and sparkling prose.
When you accept this invitation to become a Charter Member of The Old Farmer’s Almanac Gardening Club, you get to reap this harvest of gardening know-how:
- Old Farmer’s Almanac Gardening for Everyone: It’s packed with tips to help you grow better, naturally. Grow food you love, indoors or out, throughout the year. Get expert gardening tips to take the guesswork out of planting. Make sure your soil is seed-ready with easy soil-testing tips.
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| | Celebrate your Love of Gardening with The Old Farmer's Almanac Gardening Club! |
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| Save 43% with your Gardening Club Charter Membership! |
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| Claim your Old Farmer’s Almanac Gardening Club Charter Membership—save 43% today! | | | |
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- 2021 Gardening Wall Calendar: Our perennial best-seller for over 40 years! This is as much art as it is wall calendar, where lavish illustrations accompany useful gardening tips on everything from planting to preserving. Each month features a beautiful full-color original illustration of seasonal plant or animal life, as well as timeless gardening secrets and advice, folklore, fun facts, and holidays—plus Moon phases to help you with the “Planting by the Moon” chart so that you’ll have your best garden ever!
- The 2021 Old Farmer’s Almanac (softcover): As always, the Almanac is loaded with the tips, trivia, and insights that make it a family favorite. Since 1792, The Old Farmer’s Almanac has been trusted and enjoyed by folks from all walks of life—those who grow their own food depend on the planting dates; home cooks, gardeners, and folks hungry for something quick and delicious to fix depend on the recipes; and just about everybody checks on the Moon phases and the sunrise and -set times … as well as the weather forecasts … to know what to expect for any given day, week, month, or season.
You’ll also discover quirky facts, timeless adages and advice, amusing quotes and profound proverbs, contests, anecdotes and pleasantries, best days to do things (from fishing to planting to setting eggs), and so much more! I’m sure you realize that this invitation offer isn’t for everyone. But we know you’re exactly the kind of person who will appreciate—even relish—the chance to dig more deeply than ever before into not just next year’s garden, but also the gardening advice in the legendary Old Farmer’s Almanac!
- The Old Farmer’s Almanac EXTRA! Our monthly digital magazine includes articles on gardening, food, and other content not found in the print edition. It’s a great way to keep up-to-date on Almanacky topics throughout the year.
For instance, you might read about the secret formula behind our 80% success record in predicting the weather for a full year—a method first developed by the founder of this Almanac, Robert B. Thomas, in 1792, and since then enhanced by modern meteorology.
Or you might take advantage of tree-planting tips or of new recipes for those lazy weekends. It’s the Almanac times 12, and you’ll love every single month.
- Bonus: Not only will you get a new Old Farmer’s Almanac EXTRA! each month—you get free access to every issue of EXTRA! in our digital library. That’s more than 42 issues of great gardening tips, delicious recipes, and more!
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| | Celebrate your Love of Gardening with The Old Farmer's Almanac Gardening Club! |
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| Save 43% with your Gardening Club Charter Membership! |
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| Claim your Old Farmer’s Almanac Gardening Club Charter Membership—save 43% today! | | | |
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| A Good Deal From the People Who Know Good Deals | As you may know, The Old Farmer’s Almanac comes from the folks at Yankee Publishing (home of Yankee Magazine!), so of course we’ve got a lot of that legendary Yankee thrift in our veins. So our Old Farmer’s Almanac Gardening Club is all about giving gardeners a great deal:
Accept this special invitation to become a Charter Member of The Old Farmer’s Almanac Gardening Club, and you’ll pay just $29.97 for a full year! Heck, the Almanac alone normally costs $16, and the folks who buy just Almanac EXTRA! pay $10 a year!
Here’s how it would all break down if you wanted to buy everything separately:
- The Old Farmer’s Almanac – $16
- Old Farmer’s Almanac Gardening for Everyone – $9.99 value - club member exclusive!
- 2021 Gardening Wall Calendar – $16
- The Old Farmer’s Almanac EXTRA! – $10
TOTAL: $51.99
But when you become a Charter Member of The Old Farmer’s Almanac Gardening Club, you’ll pay just $29.97 – a savings of 43%!
Remember, when you join The Old Farmer’s Almanac Gardening Club, you don’t get just the Almanac, Garden Guide, and Gardening Calendar to use and peruse all year long. You also get the Almanac EXTRA!, which delivers fun, useful, and funky new Almanac-style tips and ideas every single month!
And now, exclusively for club members, we have opened up the Garden Guide Online Library — including Garden Guides from the past 6 years and our favorite digital cookbook - Cooking Fresh! |
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| | Celebrate your Love of Gardening with The Old Farmer's Almanac Gardening Club! |
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| Save 43% with your Gardening Club Charter Membership! |
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| Claim your Old Farmer’s Almanac Gardening Club Charter Membership—save 43% today! | | | |
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Altogether, we think that this is a great offer for any gardener.
So, I hope you’ll accept this invitation to you and claim your Charter Membership right now!
Thanks for taking the time to read this special invitation, and I look forward to giving your gardening efforts an Almanac helping hand for the coming year. Order your copies today!
Yours for the love of gardening,
Janice Stillman
Editor
The Old Farmer’s Almanac
P.S. Please consider this special invitation today—I want you to have all the same resources that I have when I go out into my garden. You deserve it, especially now in these difficult times. Consider your Gardening Club Charter Membership an investment in your health and your happiness—join now! |
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| | Celebrate your Love of Gardening with The Old Farmer's Almanac Gardening Club! |
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| Save 43% with your Gardening Club Charter Membership! |
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| Claim your Old Farmer’s Almanac Gardening Club Charter Membership—save 43% today! | | | |
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