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10 Ideas for Planning your own Amazing Children’s Garden
Create your own children’s garden in your backyard and keep your kids outside and entertained for hours.
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Homestead Highlight: Snooks
Hi there! I am Snooks, wife to a really good guy who spoils me often and Mom to an awesome boy who effectively stole my heart the day he was born. I love living life in the country and all of the experiences that come with it. We are excited about taking steps to make…
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Vertical Vegetable Gardening: A Review
With the cold weather outside I’ve spent lots of time dreaming of my summer garden and scanning through my bookshelf for a little inspiration. The most recent addition to my bookshelf is Chris McLaughlin’s new book: Vertical Vegetable Gardening, and it is just chalk full of inspiration. In this book, Chris shares her gardening knowledge…
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Everything you Need to Know to Grow an Amazing Bee Garden
Build your own bee garden to attract pollinators to your backyard farm. Find flowers that attract bees and more.
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Homestead Highlight: Sheryl
We are Sheryl & Denny Sicard, along with our daughter, we live in south Louisiana on a 10 acre piece of land we call Cypress Hill Farm. We are going into our third year of homesteading. You can read more about them at their blog: Cypress Hill Farm.
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Getting the Most Out of Your Homestead in Winter
Your winter homestead is the perfect place to plan and get ready for the season ahead.
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Baking Your Own Bread: Everyday Oatmeal Honey Bread
Bread is a staple on our homestead and this oatmeal honey bread is our favorite. We call this our everyday oatmeal honey bread, although we tend to baked it once or twice a week. We spread it with peanut butter, toast it with garlic, dip it in soup, and sometimes just eat it straight out…
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Homestead Highlight: Sonja
My name is Sonja Twombly. My husband, Sean and I live with our 2 teenage daughters in Coastal Maine. Together, we are building Lally Broch Farm, our homestead and growing small farm business. It is not easy. Anyone with any experience in farming large or small can tell you that. But, it is the very…
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Choosing Seeds for the Best Backyard Garden
Choosing seeds can be challenging. Here are a few things to consider when selecting the best seeds for your backyard garden.
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Making Extracts is Easy
With all the baking going on in our home this holiday season, we are rapidly using up our supply of store bought extracts. While store bought extracts are convenient, the imitations extracts are filled with chemicals and taste just a bit artificial, and the real extracts often cost upward of 10 dollars. With just a…
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