Growing Organic Produce in the Sonoran Desert

This is a step by step guide to planting in the Sonoran Desert. I will show you how and where I gathered my information. You can start an urban garden or small scale farm of your own in the Sonoran Desert.

This is a step by step guide to planting in the Sonoran Desert. I will show you how and where I gathered my information. You can start an urban garden or small scale farm of your own in the Sonoran Desert. I hope that you will glean what you need to be inspired and encouraged to grow. In this guide book you will look at things in a different way and learn to see the utility of something to be re purposed on a budget. I have taken a path that offered no clear direction or instruction. Following the leading of the Holy Spirit and applying what I do know to the things that I do not, our little ranch is growing. I have learned to define success differently not by balance sheets, but by the relationships and lives that you touch through food.

An electronics technician by training in the fields of aerospace and electronics Michael McKenzie is a self taught small scale farmer who after developing skills in the mechanical and electronic fields gleaned knowledge from Aerospace, Semi Conductor Engineering, Development, Manufacturing and then transferred those skills to small scale agriculture. With the training received from the United States Marine Corps, Corporate America and Academia, Michael continues to teach and learn by doing. Lucky Nickel Ranch Inc. was established in 1998 with a “Blue Sky” dream of providing families another alternative to rural living activities in a Christian atmosphere. Along with his wife Pani they operate The McKenzie Inn Bed and Breakfast on Lucky Nickel Ranch that promotes the cause of Christ.