Growing your own food and homesteading in your own backyard with vegetable gardening, chickens, permaculture, and home brewing.
Late spring can be really busy in the garden and on the homestead. Find out what you can be planting and what seeds you can sow right now.
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Chicken feed can be really expensive but there are a few ways we can reduce how much we use to make it stretch further.
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Let's talk about how we can use woodchips in a no-till garden bed and be successful!
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Early spring means lots of vegetables to get sowing in the garden and carrots are a classic cool-weather crop! In this episode, we dig into growing carrots from seed and saving your own carrot seed …
Just as tomatoes are a gateway plant to growing a garden, chickens are a gateway to keeping homestead livestock even in the suburbs! With many cities now allowing chicken keeping in a backyard settin…
It isn't too late for your garden plan! Find out how this tool helps and some things you might want in your garden plan.
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If dry weather or troubles watering your garden are on your mind, in today's episode we dig into gardening without watering!
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We're learning to grow from seed to saving seed and in this episode, we're talking about how to grow an overlooked root vegetable that stores very well over winter in a root cellar! Meet the humble …
Let's talk about how to grow onions! Often used in the kitchen but sometimes a bit difficult to grow, in this podcast we're going to talk about:
Sometimes vegetables are dropped from a seed catalog because they aren't popular for gardeners to buy. Maybe it is because we don't know how to use it in the kitchen, maybe it's difficult to grow, o…
If you are itching to get planting your garden listen in to learn how to protect your plants from the cold and avoid a mistake I made using frost protection!
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There might be snow on the ground but it is seed-starting season indoors! Get a jump on the growing season and find out what seeds you can sow right now!
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Learning about saving seeds can be a great way to help preserve historic varieties and save money with your gardening hobby. In this episode, we talk about some considerations you need to think abou…
In today's episode, I'll be talking through some planned improvements here on the homestead and some upcoming gardening experiments and trials...2023 is going to be a busy year here but I hope that s…
In this episode, we talk a bit more about zones and how they can vary. We also talk about what stacking is in permaculture and how we can leverage it in our design.
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In this episode, we dig in to learn about the permaculture principles and some examples for your homestead and find out about permaculture zones.
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It's time for a mini-training series! We are digging into permaculture step by step over the next few weeks to help you create a permaculture design to use on your homestead!
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Get more from your garden by being able to maximize your yields in small spaces and in any garden!
See how to save time and up your seed-starting and garden planning by building your seed-starting sc…
Some gardening tips haven't changed in over 100 years, while others definitely have! Here are some old-time tips for your homestead and garden.
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Wrap your garden up for winter and see the simple steps to help you spring into action next season!
See how to save time and up your seed-starting and garden planning by building your seed-starting s…