Sustainable Gardening: What To Do Before You Plant Your Seedlings
To live more sustainably, I have a small garden bed in my backyard to grow food for my family. Although it isn’t as large
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9 Weird and Wonderful Easy To Grow Berries
BERRIES ARE TOTALLY LIKE AWESOME HEALTHY FOR YOU!!!!!!!!! At least that’s what we hear from the medical establishment. And unlike their advice on saturated
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Hedgerows: A Modern Take on an Ancient Homesteading Practice
Hedgerows have been around for centuries and date back as early as the Bronze Age (3000 B.C – -1000 B.C.). Once used as
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Hay and Straw Bale Gardening: Everything You Wanted to Know for the Best Bounty Ever
Two years ago, we moved into a house that had an abandoned garden; and to put it bluntly, the garden was in pretty
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80+ Items You Can Compost
Home composting isn’t just for farmers anymore! The practice is becoming increasingly popular among urban environmentalists who are eager to cut their landfill
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Going Rogue: 15 Ways to Detach From the System
I am inspired by the very definition of self-reliance: to be reliant on one’s own capabilities, judgment, or resources. Ultimately, it is the epitome of independence
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Grow Your Own Food Throughout the Year with the Cost and Energy Efficient Micro-Climate System [Video]
The Greenhouse of the Future may have the solution to our problem [of hunger]. However, some people are determined to find alternative ways
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70 Medicinal Herbal Plants You Should Grow In Your Organic Garden
Herbal plants have played an important rule in medicine for many years. Some common herbal plants such as ginger, peppermint, lavender, thyme, chamomile,
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25 Survival Seeds You Need For Your Garden
Living off the land sounds as inviting as Christmas dinner. But many have hardly had adequate experience being “farmers.” In fact, many have
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The Autumn Harvest: How To Store and Cook With Winter Squash (plus recipes)
One of my favorite things about fall is the abundance of winter squashes and all the delicious recipes one can make with them.
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20 Early Spring Edibles: How And When To Grow Them
When you have been stuck indoors all winter long, even a few patches of brown grass and soil poking through on a sunny
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16 Common Vegetables You Can Regrow
With anything started in water you must replenish water as needed and change on a weekly basis. Leeks, Spring Onions, Scallions and Fennel
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Lessons in Farming with Limited Space on a Limited Budget
Our modern way of life has strayed from the family farm and has moved toward the urban and suburban environment. This change has
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Basic Survival Food From Your Garden: Corn
Corn has a bad reputation today. Besides being genetically modified, corn today has been transformed into high-fructose corn syrup. It’s creeping into all
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Plantain, a common driveway weed is one of nature most powerful medicines
It’s known to pop up as a persistent weed in gardens , on lawns and even in driveway cracks . But plantain is
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How To DIY A Greenhouse: 9 Projects For Your Homestead
Today’s article is as green as it gets, because it’s about DIY-ing greenhouses. How do you build a greenhouse, you ask? The easy answer
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SHTF Survival Options – Indoor Gardening
As a prepper you may have stockpiled all sorts of food items, and you probably know how to grow your own food crops.
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5 New Solutions For Growing Healthy Produce Indoors
An increasing number of people are moving into urban environments and away from traditional agriculture. As a consequence, those who have a mind
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With This Greenhouse It Is Now Possible To Grow Crops In The Desert
A non-profit organization called “Roots Up” has designed a greenhouse that collects moisture from the air, which then is used to water the
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10 Medicinal Plants that Should be in Every Garden
Playful as kids are, accidents happen. And the accident that befallen me at 7 years old was the feeling of the hot exhaust
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Permaculture: The New Paradigm Of Self Sufficient Community Based Living
The fact of the matter is that over the years we have allowed ourselves to be more and more accepting of the urban
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Hugelkultur: Natural Permaculture Gardening
Sustainable agriculture is a relatively new (and also very old) concept that is sweeping the world these days. Beautiful gardens are cropping up
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“Farm From A Box” Equips Communities With The Tools Needed To Grow Food Off-Grid
The small farming toolkit includes everything one needs to start growing biodynamic, organic food off-grid. Self-sufficiency is a must in the modern age,
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Fight Dirty: How to Become a Backyard Garden Guerrilla Even If You’ve Never Grown a Tomato
Sometimes I think that the next Revolutionary War will take place in vegetable garden battlefields, all across America. Instead of bullets, there will
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