How To Prepare Your Garden Beds For Winter
Just when you begin to think that all the garden work is done for the year, you suddenly hear a whispering voice inside your head. “Build and replenish the soil”, …
Just when you begin to think that all the garden work is done for the year, you suddenly hear a whispering voice inside your head. “Build and replenish the soil”, …
Fall is finally here with it’s cool, crisp weather and pumpkin spice everything. The changing fall foliage is beautiful too, until it starts coating your lawn and needs to be …
No matter how successfully you make tomatoes ripen more quickly in your garden, chances are you will still be left with a number of green tomatoes to use up at …
Whether you are a seasoned homesteader or a yearning-to-be homesteader, this list of self-reliant skills will give you so much to learn (plus resources to get started), that you’ll never …
Around your apple trees, you will find a range of apples that fall onto the ground. But even when they have fallen from the tree, there are still a number …
Making natural pectin from unripe windfall apples is a great way to avoid waste. Have you ever thought it a shame that all those unripe apples fall from your trees …
Comfrey is one of the most useful plants that you can grow in an organic garden. In this article, we will discuss why growing comfrey is a good idea and …
A 5 gallon bucket is an incredibly useful thing to have around your garden, home or homestead. There are hundreds of different ways to make use of one. So, whether …
Chickens are simple creatures, but they still have basic needs, and a dust bath is one of them! Why do chickens need a dust bath? All chickens get clean by …
There is nothing quite like biting into a deliciously fresh and homegrown tomato. Tomatoes are a staple in almost all edible gardens and for good reason. Keeping your tomato plants …
If you’ve ever tried to hard cook then peel farm fresh eggs, you know how difficult and frustrating it can be. The egg white sticks stubbornly to the shell and …
Hey there, the lawn needs to be mowed. Again. All summer long. Always and forever. Sometimes almost as soon as you’ve finished mowing it. While I can’t help you with …
When life hands you too much of a good thing, the sweetest sun-ripened strawberries or a bounty of heirloom tomatoes for instance, there is no way that you are going …
When your primary heating source is wood, you find yourself cleaning out the wood stove quite a bit during those colder months of the year. Before long you’re dumping out …
Now is the season to stop treating your backyard garden as a mini-farm and end the backbreaking work of digging once and for all. Not only will your gardening “work” …
An eggshell is more than just a useful container for the nutritious yolk and egg white inside: it is a prime example of nature’s perfect packaging. Eggshells are beneficial for …
If the idea of raising backyard ducks makes your heart instantly go pitter-patter at the thought of little webbed feet waddling determinedly through the yard, then keep reading, this article …
When the city lights have lost their luster and the so-called conveniences of urban life are beginning to feel more and more inconvenient, both for you and the Earth, it …
Waking up to find an infestation of flies in your chicken coop is not only enough to turn your stomach, it’s incredibly frustrating. We’ve been there, we’ve tried everything, and …