With summer firmly underway and the early crops rolling in, we’re entering the time of year when dinner is often simply plucked directly from the garden. The cucumbers this year are sweet, the tomatoes are plentiful, the basil is lush, and the squash are all withering away. My straw bale garden castle has been a […]
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Welcome to the Backyard Farming Connection Hop – a place to gather and share each week what is happening in the homestead blogging community. Take some time to check out this week’s features and visit the links below! Do you dehydrate your fruits and veggies – From Living the Simple Life, here’s a post with
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A few days ago, I alluded to some exciting news in our home. To give you some more of the details, we are uprooting our small homestead and moving to Southern NH at the end of August. We knew this move was possible, but the time was a little unsure, and all of a sudden
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How to plant garlic in the fall for a spring harvest. How to grow garlic for scape and bulbs!
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This week we’re starting to see more flowers on some of those crops – potato, cucumbers, squash, tomatilla, tomato, and even the leeks I forgot to pull from last year. We’re already losing a lot of lettuce, peas and broccoli due to the heat, but I have high hopes for the heat loving vegetables this
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Keeping bees is one of those endeavors that lives at the intersection of carefully studied research and a little creative ingenuity. Learning the bee swarming signs is important to any bee keeper. For those people who’ve kept bees for life or have a huge operation, bee keeping most likely is simply a matter of intuition and know-how, but for many of us who keep just a few hives, understanding and managing the unique behavior in your bee hive can feel a bit overwhelming.
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This week as I went about the garden snapping some photos for this week’s series, I had to stop continuously to wipe the humidity from the lens. With rain and thunderstorms forecast everyday, we’ve entered the hot, humid part of summer, and everywhere we walk the ground seems to sink down like a sponge.
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It’s already the time year when the harvest is starting to come into the kitchen and we shift from frantically planting to preserving (at least it feels frantic in our home). In our yard, the strawberries are ripe and ready to pick which means it’s time to make jam. Here are some fabulous guides to
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Hey everyone, I’m Janie from Hedgecombers.com
I’m a food blogger & self sufficient wannabe that lives on 30 acres in south west England.
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This has been one of those – run around with lots to do and not actually get much done kinds of weeks! Without further discussion here are this week’s features: From Taylor-Made Ranch, save money and energy using Solar Screens And from Green Eggs and Goats, I LOVE these trellises! I want to know what’s
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