Nature’s Way: Welcoming (or At Least Tolerating) Beneficial Wildlife
Homesteaders often operate under the assumption that wildlife in general is incompatible…
Beneficial Bugs
When I first started gardening, I knew I would probably be spending…
An Earth-Friendlier Pesticide Guide
If you enjoy the garden and the healthy variety of delicious foods…
Beginning Thoughts on Keeping Bees
There are a lot of good reasons to have a few hives…
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…
Bats & Guano: Gifts From the Garden Gods
Say the words feces, scat, feculence, crap, caca, and a shovel-full of…
Wintering Bees
Before you read "Wintering Bees", have you read "Getting Ready to Get…
Preparing Bees for Winter: Getting Ready to Get Bees Ready For Winter
This was article supposed to be something about how honey bees and…
