Late Fall is about the time of year when cabin fever is kicking in. You’re looking out over your land and you want to start planting. How are you going to wait 3 whole months till spring? One way to get pass the time and get your hands dirty is to start preparing land for […]
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Do you love watching the trees turn colors in the fall, but dread the chore of raking up all those leaves and figuring out what to do with them? Well, I have 3 ways that you can turn fall leaves into a resource for your homestead.
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What are perennial, biennial and annual plants? As a gardener and homesteader there is a lot to know when picking out what types of plant to use. Knowing when to use perennial plants, biennial plants or annual plants can save you time, energy and make your garden and homestead even more abundant.
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What if you could plant your vegetable garden one year and not need to replant it for years to come? Perennial vegetables can make this dream-garden a reality. Perennial vegetables only need to be planted once and then come back year after year for you to harvest without any additional planting.
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Aphids. Slugs. Even pill bugs? It’s so frustrating when you work hard to grow food in your garden and then these pests show up and eat all your hard work. How do you control garden pests when you don’t want to spray toxins on the food you and your family are going to eat? Continue […]
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We’ve all heard the cardinal rule of watering—your garden needs one inch over the surface each week. What if I told you that’s a myth, that you don’t need to water your garden weekly? You can create a low water garden where you don’t need to do the watering.
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Imagine looking out your backdoor and seeing a lush garden filled with vegetables, fruit trees and berry bushes waiting to be picked, and chickens running around scratching for bugs. This vision drives you to start a homestead. But you don’t know how to get there.
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