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Beginning and Ending with Seeds: Starting, Growing, and Saving Seeds

By Jenny Flores
A garden offers some truly great benefits to those who undertake the task.  It is a way to exercise greater control over the food in your…
homesteading, homestead. homestead.org Gardening

French Intensive Gardening: Optimizing Your Output

By Jenny Flores
If you are searching for a way to dramatically increase your harvest yields while decreasing the amount of water you use in your garden, French…
Established Forest Garden Food

Tips from an Established Forest Garden

By Elizabeth Waddington
Starting a forest garden on your homestead is one of the best things you can do—for your own needs and those of your family, your…
Homesteading, Seed Heads, Winter Landscape, Landscaping, Wildflowers, Wildlife Flowers and Horticulture

Seed Heads Provide Food for Wildlife and Decorate the Winter Landscape

By Jo Ann Abell
Once the last blazing maple leaf has floated to the ground and before the first blossoms of spring burst forth with their renewing life, what's…
Garden Therapy Gardening

Garden Therapy: Getting in Touch with Your Roots

By Laurie Charpentier
My introduction to gardening began with time spent in my grandfather’s garden.  His suburban lot was no bigger than 10,000 square feet, but it was…
Cold-Climate-Homestead Gardening

Solutions for Growing Food Year Round on a Cold Climate Homestead

By Elizabeth Waddington
I am fortunate to live in an area where winter temperatures rarely dip lower than 5° Celsius below zero. (26° Fahrenheit). None the less, there…
Basics of Composting Ecology

The Basics of Composting

By Tamara Siemering
If you’re new to gardening, you’ll be doing yourself a great service by learning the basics of composting and beginning the essential practice of cultivating…
homesteading, homestead. homestead.org Gardening

Turn a Spare Room Into a Grow Room: Produce Year-round Produce

By Jenny Flores
It’s that time again. The weather is turning cold, telling us it is time to turn over the garden, plant some cover crops and go…
kudzu Managing Invasive Plant Species, Invasive species, Woodlot management, Herbicides Gardening

Managing Invasive Plant Species on the Homestead

By Jo Ann Abell
Invasive plant species anywhere on the homestead are a problem for the way they displace native species, disrupt ecosystem function, and generally make a nuisance…
Growing Persimmons From Seed homesteading Food

Growing Persimmons From Seed: An Unusual Fruit For Your Homestead

By Jenny Flores
Persimmons are a delicious and unusual fruit to grow on your homestead. Persimmons like a warm climate but other than that, they are not particularly…
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The Moonlight Garden: A Composition in White

By Dori Fritzinger
American writer, Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), gave a magical description of wandering through a moonlight garden that is as true now as it was in the…
There are a few different ways to grow hydroponically, but here we will look at the three most popular systems for Gardening with Hydroponics Alternative Energy

Like Water for… Tomatoes? Year-round Gardening with Hydroponics

By Laurie Charpentier
Imagine plucking a ripe, round tomato right from the stem and sinking your teeth into its juicy flesh.  There’s nothing tastier than a fresh tomato,…

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