Growing your own food and homesteading in your own backyard with vegetable gardening, chickens, permaculture, and home brewing.
Even though fall is here, there's still some planting that can be done in the garden! See what you can plant and what you can overwinter to grow again!
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Winter is on the way! Find out how to get your garden ready for the next season and how to make more plants for free in this episode.
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As your garden comes to an end for the season, it is a good time to reflect on what grew well, what didn't, and some possible changes for your garden the following year. In this episode, I talk abou…
You can save seeds quite easily from your own plants in your garden. If you want to reduce the seeds you are buying and start gardening more self sufficiently then here are some easy plants to save …
No matter how much I experiment and try something new in the garden, I always seem to find my way back to gardening like this. Learn how to start a garden with very little and some benefits to garde…
I didn't grow up in a homesteading or farming family but I learned so much from my grandparents when I was younger. Here are 10 depression-era tips I learned from my grandparents that I use on a reg…
August is a busy time in the garden and around the homestead, learn 11 tasks for August to help you keep your homestead on track!
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Farmers do an amazing job. Growing food isn't an easy task and during Maine's Open Farm Day I had an opportunity to walk farms and talk to the farmers who grow food for their communities and share t…
Pests are a pain to deal with, but they are inevitable in the garden. Today. let's talk about some control methods you can use in the garden to help keep pests in check.
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The summer is busy in the garden but in July and August, there are some steady garden chores you can do from taking care of the soil to cane fruit. See how you can help your garden grow!
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Join me with a cup of tea for a chat about homesteading. In today's episode, you can hear about some of the things going on around the homestead behind the scenes if you will. Things that worked an…
Raising your own chickens for meat or eggs is a great project for most homesteaders but they can get expensive with the cost of feed. In this episode, we dive into some strategies homesteaders use t…
Scaling up your homestead is another learning curve. In today's episode, I want to talk about some things that I wish we had known before expanding the homestead.
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It might just be the beginning of your growing season but don't miss out on a garden for fall! In this episode, we dig into preparing for your fall garden.
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Working full time and homesteading isn't easy. In today's episode, I talk about how we keep moving forward and some tips that have helped us along the way.
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Start building your self-sufficient homestead garden and grow more in the same garden bed with these companion plant pairings!
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If you need the inspiration to start your landrace varieties dig in to learn about how I'm creating some on my homestead.
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Learn how to get weeds under control in your garden with these weeding tips.
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Today I'm sharing some quick tips for transplanting your seedlings.
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Spring is in the air! With about 4 weeks to go until the last average frost date, it's time to get some jobs done before the garden season hits.
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