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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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
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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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.
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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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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. Through this urban homesteading journey, Colleen hopes to lead her family down the path to a more sustainable, intentional, and fulfilled life. Follow their adventures on their blog Five Little Homesteaders or find them on Facebook and Twitter.
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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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The Backyard Farming Connection #24
We’re bracing for yet another winter storm here in NY. Still, our thoughts are of spring. After a weekend spent harvesting honey, and visiting a commercial maple sugar farm, we are settling in, and preparing for the growing season ahead. If you haven’t got your gardening tools ready for this spring, check out some of
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