Watering and garden soil: 10 Irrigation techniques to use in your home garden
Follow me Managing a homestead can be tiring, especially if you have a large garden. To make things easier for yourself when it’s
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10 Seeds You Need for the Survival Garden
Follow me Survival seeds are one of those long-term preparedness measures that every family should have. If the days come when a survival garden is needed,
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How to Desalinate Water and How It Could Change the Water Crisis
Follow me Whether the water delivery system stops functioning, or the water supply becomes tainted, you can practically guarantee that our precious H2O
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Grow Salad Greens and Herbs in Containers
Follow me Salad greens and herbs are among the easiest food plants to grow from seed in pots. In fact, it makes sense
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Cut-And-Come-Again Gardening Will Boost Your Production
Follow me Many vegetables can be grown, harvested, and will continue to grow for later harvests. This is called a cut-and-come-again garden, a
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3 Sustainable Ways To Reduce Your Dependence on the Supply Chain
Follow me It’s no secret that the supply chain disruptions have created global impacts on us. Many of us are feeling the burn
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Start Gardening Differently
Follow me Preparedness and self-sufficiency usually turns to food production at some point. Whether we’re old hats or just getting started, there are some
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A Simple, Homemade Plant Propagation System That Works Fantastic
Follow me This page has a lot of photos so give them a chance to load if you have a slow connection. This
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How to Build a Backyard Greenhouse from Scratch
Follow me Throughout this web site, and in my book Free Landscape Plants!, I teach you many ways to grow your own landscape
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In Defense of Organic Farming
Follow me By now, even the mainstream media widely acknowledges the fertilizer shortage. Between fertilizer shortages, drought, shipping problems, and fuel shortages we face an ugly winter. And
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5 Nutritious, fast-growing vegetables that you need in your home garden
Follow me Not all vegetables take several months to mature. Even if you’re not an experienced gardener, there are plenty of vegetables that you
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Trail Foods from History – Food Preservation Ideas
Follow me One of the challenges that regularly comes up when we talk about bug-outs is food for our bug out packs, and even
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Prepper Hacks – Jumpstart That Survival Garden
Follow me Spring Into Planting (Early & Anywhere) Hopefully we’ve all sited or started making notes of where we want to plant, expand,
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BREAD MAKING OPTIONS WHEN YOU HAVE NO YEAST
Follow me Much to the dismay of preppers everywhere, yeast does expire. It loses the ability to make bread rise, as it’s a
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This Week’s Harvest: Strawberries
Follow me Strawberry season is in full swing. Now is the time to stock up on those delicious vivid red berries! Some strawberry
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Use This Canning Recipe For An Abundant Harvest Of Carrots
Follow me At the end of the summer, sometimes the weather does not always cooperate with us. In fact, sometimes cool weather can
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Spring 2022 Press Release: Regenerative Gardening
Follow me Regenerative gardening focuses on biodiversity and working with nature to create a balanced habitat of interdependent plants and animals, from the
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How To Pressure Can Your Garden Kale
Follow me Every year we plant kale in both our greenhouse and our garden. We choose red Russian kale because it is cold
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Lessons from History – Victory Garden Advice That Applies To Everything
Follow me Looking back at past history, recent and far removed, can help prepare us in all parts of life. In some cases,
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How to Make Home Canned Ham
Follow me In a totally different stratosphere from Spam, the cans of flaked ham and the big pear-shaped cans of ham that you
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How to Grow Horseradish and Make Your Own Spicy Condiment
Follow me Ground horseradish is one of those condiments that people either love or hate intensely. There seems to be no middle ground
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Tips for Growing Sweet Corn
Follow me Nothing says “Summer’s here!” quite like an ear of fresh, tender sweet corn dripping with butter. Sweet corn has the best
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Home gardening tips: A beginner’s guide to composting
Follow me Composting at home is good for your garden, the soil, your crops and the planet. It is a great way to repurpose
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Power tips for off-grid living
Follow me No matter where you live, there are a number of things you can do right now to get ready for the
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