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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Garden
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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13 Tips For Building The Best Raised Beds
There are many reasons why raised bed gardening is becoming so popular. One of the main reasons that they’re great for people who
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Blend Your Own Seed-Starting Mix
April Johnson, landscape and greenhouse coordinator at the Rodale Institute near Kutztown, Pennsylvania, grows literally thousands of organic vegetable, flower, and herb transplants
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Cold Frame Gardening
Like most vegetable gardeners, I’ve always been interested in extending the harvest beyond the confines of “the growing season.” Along with the prolonged
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