Gardening

Homesteading Gardening articles collected over two decades from experienced homesteaders who know what they’re talking about.

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Making The Most Of Shade: Plan, Plant, and Grow a Shade Garden

How to plan, plant, and grow a fabulous garden that lightens up…

Michael Feldmann Michael Feldmann

Food Forever: Creating a Perennial Food Forest

Growing our own produce is an important part of the homesteading lifestyle.…

Jenny Flores Jenny Flores

Designing an Herb Garden

Herbs are easy to grow as most of them are generally undemanding,…

Jenny Flores Jenny Flores

Easy as Pie: The Myth of Simple Living

To a generation who grew up on Lassie, Little House on the…

Sheri Dixon Sheri Dixon

Farmers of Fungi: Growing Mushrooms and Mycorrhizae in Your Vegetable Patch

In the last 40 years, human understanding of fungi, and their role…

Dustin Eirdosh Dustin Eirdosh

Your Medicinal Garden: Ten Herbs to Plant This Spring

Come spring, the nursery catalogs will be arriving in the mail.  All…

Karyn Sweet Karyn Sweet

The Three Sisters Legacy: The Science Behind Companion Planting

There’s nothing quite as frustrating as having some know-it-all tell you why…

Clare Brandt Clare Brandt

Permaculture: The Truly Sustainable Way of Life

What is Permaculture? Permanent agriculture.  A system for feeding and caring for…

Karyn Sweet Karyn Sweet

Bats & Guano: Gifts From the Garden Gods

Say the words feces, scat, feculence, crap, caca, and a shovel-full of…

Alan Ray Alan Ray

Inside a Sharecropper’s Garden: Growing Food in the Inner-city

Birgitt Evans has been gardening since she was a child.  Now a…

Clare Brandt Clare Brandt

Ruth Stout: The No-Dig Duchess

In the early 1980s, I went to Sussex, England to study small-scale…

Barbara Bamberger-Scott Barbara Bamberger-Scott

Grow Beyond Your Zone: Easy Hügelkultur Beds for Citrus, Olives, and More

My husband loves olives, so it was no surprise to me that…

Annelise Burlett Annelise Burlett

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