“My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece” – Claude Monet It’s been hard to find time to get out in the garden this week between the rain showers. As we watch out the windows and wade our way back and forth to the animals through the mud puddles, the weeds seem to be filling up […]
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If you grow nothing else in your garden, consider growing herbs. Here are 10 herbs for your garden.
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“No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden.” ― Thomas Jefferson This week I’m starting a new series here on the blog. Each Friday I will share photos from our garden with a little update about what we’re doing, what’s growing,
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Growing an eco friendly lawn is better for the environment and can be easier to maintain. Go green in your yard this year!
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I’m Katharina, new to blogging (visit me at thisonegoodlife.blogspot.com), and not even sure I’m a backyard farmer just yet. With a flock of 6-11 chickens around for the past 4 years, and two brand new beehives, along with an expanding vegetable garden and more fruit trees every year, I hope to get there. Inch by inch, row by row… Outside of growing food, our family of five loves making things – sewing, woodworking, repurposing, and we love exploring nature. My greatest motivation for living this one good life is to raise good stewards of this one precious planet.
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The garden is growing – it’s really growing! Despite the heat this weekend, we got most of the garden beds weeded and you can see the small, fragile seedlings struggling upward. With the garden underway, we are starting to get our first harvest: herbs, lettuce, and strawberries and I’m looking forward to eating more out
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What’s Causing all the Dead bees?
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Do you homestead? Do you farm or garden, or grow herbs on your deck? However you homestead, I invite you to share your story here at the Backyard Farming Connection as part of the homestead highlight series. Come share your insights, successes and failures. You don’t need to be a blogger to share here. You
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Grow beneficial flowers for your vegetable garden to attract the right pests and deter others.
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My name is Mary Woollard and I blog over at Homegrown on the Hill. (http://www.homegrownonthehill.blogspot.com/) Our 5 acre farm is located in Southwestern Ohio, and I live there with my handy husband, Aaron, and our two children.
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