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No Dig Gardening for Beginners: Is it Better Than Digging?
Read below for more information on dig verus no dig gardening for beginners and how to get started in your own garden. If you are new to gardening or looking for fresh ideas to establish a new garden bed, control weeds and build healthy soil, you’ve likely come across information about the lasagna gardening method…
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5 Ideas for Creating a Wild Yard as part of Your Backyard Farm
Create a natural space and wild yard design for getting the most out of your backyard. Attract animals, create natural play spaces, build buffers and more.
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Planting in Straw Bales: Everything you Need to Know for a Better Garden
Learn more about planting in Straw bales with details about preparing, planting, and the best plants to grow in your straw bale garden.
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Homestead Highlight: Teri
I’m Teri, wife and mama to two little ones, ages 2 and 5. After 13 years of homesteading in Oregon, our family recently moved to Northeast Missouri, where we are slowly building an off-grid homestead on our own land. In this space, I’ll share the adventure, along with lots of gardening, knitting, parenting, and radical…
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Gardening in Raised Beds for Success: Everything You Need to Know
Learn more about gardening in raised beds.
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Homestead Highlight: Colleen
Colleen is a special education teacher (by way of Teach for America) turned stay-at-home mom to three little ones – ages 3, 2, and 1. Her days are filled with laughing and tears, joys and frustrations, chickens and children. Her family of five lives on a .15 acre lot in the heart of Phoenix, Arizona. …
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How to Achieve your Homesteading Ideas Now
Are you working towards your homesteading ideas and dreams? What’s stopping you from living the life you love?
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The 5 Benefits and Challenges of Traditional and Organic Gardening
In this article, we discuss 2 tried and true gardening methods: organic gardening, without the use of pesticides and chemical fertilizers and traditional gardening, or laying the garden out in a large rectangle with rows. Organic gardening methods are not new and in fact they have been used since people started to garden. For centuries,…
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Homestead Highlight: Dani
We are two crazy in love, good food cooking, old house remodeling, learning to homestead, all while chasing our (soon to be 2) little boys. We are book reading, beer brewing, Subaru driving folks who live halfway around the world from their family in the middle of nowhere trying to learn how to do this…
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Which Plants are Best to Direct Sow in the Garden
Learn what seeds should you direct sow in your garden, and what seeds should you start indoors or transplant as seedlings.
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