Spring 2022 Press Release: Regenerative Gardening
Regenerative gardening focuses on biodiversity and working with nature to create a balanced habitat of interdependent plants and animals, from the fauna, fungi,
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How To Pressure Can Your Garden Kale
Every year we plant kale in both our greenhouse and our garden. We choose red Russian kale because it is cold hearty and
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Lessons from History – Victory Garden Advice That Applies To Everything
Looking back at past history, recent and far removed, can help prepare us in all parts of life. In some cases, early conventional
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Planning Your Garden? Read This First.
So you’ve noticed current events in terms of shortages at the grocery store and the many problems plaguing our centralized food system, from fires to food recalls
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Container Gardening: How To Grow Food With Limited Space
Container gardening is ideal for those with little to no garden space. Even if you live in a condo or apartment and are
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Home gardening tips: A beginner’s guide to composting
Composting at home is good for your garden, the soil, your crops and the planet. It is a great way to repurpose food waste
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One Plan Is Not Enough: 7 Tips to Create a Successful Food Plan
Every prepper has his/her own food plan for acquisition or storage of food for a crises scenario. Many might be homesteaders who rely heavily
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Everything You Need to Know To Grow a Big Crop of Cucumbers
Nothing beats the summer heat like a fresh cucumber from the garden. These sun-loving vegetables are great for first-time gardeners and easy to
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6 Organic Mulches That Will Keep Plants Cool This Summer
Mulching your gardens during the warmest summer months will do wonders for growing plants and will encourage a healthier soil environment for your plants to
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5 Important homesteading lessons to learn from American pioneers
The legacy and memory of homesteading live on in us. And while the era that our great-great-grandparents had to live through is long
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Market Garden Strategies for Survival Gardens
Preppers can reap some big rewards by applying some of the habits of successful market gardeners and small farmers to our home gardens. See,
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Food preservation tips: What kinds of food can you dehydrate?
There is almost no easier way to preserve food than to dry it. Used for thousands of years to extend the shelf-life of food without
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How to Grow Blackberries
Blackberries are a sweet tasty treat that can easily be grown in a home garden. The perennial plants will provide plenty of fresh
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Seeding Indoors Now For Your Spring Garden
Spring may seem like its eons away, but it will be here before you know it. Starting your seeds indoors is a great
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Prepper’s food delight: Fruits and vegetables you can grow in your own garden
The ability to feed yourself and your family when SHTF is very important, so you may want to learn how to grow your
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How to Start Your Own Survival Garden
Whether you’re living off-grid or in a city, access to food is one of the first concerns for a prepper. Food shortages are highly likely
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How to Grow Your Own Urban Vegetable Garden
Choosing to grow your own urban vegetable garden is a massive step towards self-reliance. With current events being what they are, supply disruptions,
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8 Inexpensive Options for Small Space Gardening
With many options for inexpensive small space gardening out there, attempts to grow food in an urban environment can be successful . With
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Square Foot Gardening – Waste of Time for Preppers?
Square foot gardening can be an excellent way to produce a lot of food in a compact space. Added benefits come from the
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Garden Rebels: 10 Ways to Sow Revolution in Your Back Yard (and Why You MUST Go to Battle)
Perhaps the next Revolutionary War will take place in a vegetable garden. Instead of bullets, there will be seeds. Instead of chemical warfare,
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Essentials for Indoor Seed Starting
Even if you don’t have access to a greenhouse, you can create conditions that will allow seedlings to thrive. Tops on the list
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Creating a More Self-Sufficient Garden for the Long Term
I love gardening. It’s fun, it’s rewarding, and it saves money. However, it’s only useful for prepping purposes in the long term if
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Gardening Keeps You Healthy
Thomas Jefferson famously wrote to Charles Willson Peale in 1811 at age 68, “But though an old man, I am but a young
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7 tips for creating a successful organic vegetable garden almost anywhere
There is nothing like enjoying the fruits of your labor, literally! The seeds you just planted turn out as little shoots and flowers
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