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Organic Gardening: How to Naturally Control Pests in Your Garden
One of the factors that heavily influenced our decision to start homesteading…
The Basics of Biodynamic Gardening
Is this the year you plan on growing healthier food, taking better…
Building a Backyard Habitat: Coexist with the Critters
Creating a backyard habitat is a fun, easy, and educational project in…
Nature’s Way: Welcoming (or At Least Tolerating) Beneficial Wildlife
Homesteaders often operate under the assumption that wildlife in general is incompatible…
An Earth-Friendlier Pesticide Guide
If you enjoy the garden and the healthy variety of delicious foods…
Create a Future-Proof Homestead: Planning for Climate and Cultural Changes
Tooting My Own Horn (Briefly). At the beginning of 2020, I predicted…
Strategies for Sustainability: How to Keep Mother Earth from Becoming Smother Earth
We can kick her, stick her, fog her, and smog her, but…
Green Burial: The Frugal Funeral for an Ecological Eternity
We spend our lives trying to get back to our Earthly roots,…
Waste Not, Want Not: Repurposing on the Homestead
Growing up in the rural Midwest, and being a child not unlike…
A Country Girl’s Best Friends: Baking Soda & Vinegar
They say diamonds are a girl’s best friend. That may be true…