Flowers and Horticulture

Check Out These Seeds! Grow Hardy Plants and Preserve the Food Chain with a Seed Library

Grow Hardy Plants and Preserve the Food Chain with a Seed Library It occurred to me, as I was writing…

1 year ago

12 Months of Fresh Produce: How to Grow Food All Year

A homestead is not complete without a kitchen garden and a homestead business is not complete without a market garden. …

1 year ago

The Basics of Composting

If you’re new to gardening, you’ll be doing yourself a great service by learning the basics of composting and beginning…

1 year ago

Food Forever: Creating a Perennial Food Forest

Growing our own produce is an important part of the homesteading lifestyle. However, planting and depending solely on annuals season…

2 years ago

The Moonlight Garden: A Composition in White

American writer, Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), gave a magical description of wandering through a moonlight garden that is as true now…

2 years ago

The Magical World of Mycelium: Growing Mushrooms on the Homestead

Mushrooms, or mycelium, make good sense for us homesteaders.  They make good sense for someone who just dreams of being…

2 years ago

A View You Can Eat: Common Edible Flowers

I must say I’m a bit of a cynic when it comes to growing flowers on the homestead. When I…

2 years ago

Crafting Country Wines

Homemade wines are easy and quick to create.  Not only can you fill your own glass, but those of your…

2 years ago

Enzymes for Plants: The Secret to Boosting Harvests and Blooms

A great secret to a thriving garden, enzymes make nutrients in the soil more available for plants to use. They…

2 years ago

Brassica: The Queen of Greens

I recently had breakfast with my three-year old granddaughter, Josephine, in a rather chi-chi diner of her choosing. When her…

2 years ago