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The 9 Best Beneficial Flowers For Your Vegetable Garden
Grow beneficial flowers for your vegetable garden to attract the right pests and deter others.
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Homestead Highlight: Mary
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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Pass it Forward
Homesteading is a new way of life for so many people (and an old way of life for many folks as well). If you are currently engaged in homesteading, how do you share your lifestyle with others? Lately I’ve been thinking about all the ways to pass it forward. For many it is as simple…
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Homestead Highlight: Kathryn
We are a family of five and we have a tiny urban farm in Portland, Oregon. It’s a 5,000 square foot lot with a 880 square foot house. We currently raise goats and chickens and have several gardens tucked around the house. I blog about our adventures at Farming My Backyard.
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Fresh Perspective.
I did not grow up on a farm. While I did grow up in a family that thought about how our actions impacted the earth, raising our own food was not a part of the whole picture. We reduced our energy consumption, we recycled, we ate healthy, and we spent time digging and playing outside. …
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Homestead Highlight: Sarah
We are Sarah, David and Noah. We have a one acre farm in the extreme south end of Seattle, under the flight path for the airport.You can find her blogging at Several Gardens Farm.
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Building the Best Hugelkultur Raised Bed on Your Backyard Farm
As I began researching and exploring various gardening methods, I’ve been reading more and more about the Hugelkultur raised bed method. This method is a hot topic and is based on the idea of building a raised garden bed using a variety of materials, many of which you may already have on hand. As the…
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How to Plant and Grow Potato Towers for a Fun, Easy Harvest
Build and plant your own potato towers this year.
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Homestead Highlight: Heather Harris
Heather started her journey to self sufficiency and homesteading after watching the movies “Super Size Me” and “Food, Inc.” and hasn’t looked back. She and her family live in Northern Indiana, where they enjoy raising a garden, rabbits and assorted poultry in their backyard. You can find her blogging at The Homesteading Hippy. Also, on Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest.
Just straight up homesteading ideas sent directly to you.