Winter Vegetable Gardening Guide

One thing that can be easily incorporated into the urban homestead and which is very useful to the backyard farmer is the rain barrel. Rain barrels can be purchased in a lot of places these days but they are quite easy to make as well. We’ll discuss how to do this below. If you want…

Plant Journaling: Keeping your plant alive one note at a time. Your plant friends will swoon at your organization skills. A plant journal is a compiled group of notes and pictures/drawings created by you. Why keep a Plant Journal? Humans are not perfect *even gardeners* we forget things and if you have as many plants…

This post was most recently updated on April 12th, 2023 Whether you are looking to make money homesteading, or just want to make some spare cash from your backyard we have you covered. Here is a list of simple, minimal investment required ideas for making money from home. Please read: This information is provided for…

The best kind of sustainability is to take a waste product and turn it into a valuable resource; to turn garbage, as it were, into gold. There’s a farm family in northwestern Connecticut doing just that these days, and in the process it’s also creating an opportunity for gardeners. Amanda Freund is, along with her…

It is so important that we feed our plants vibrant, nutritious, and natural fertilizers to help them on theirtime way. Fertilizers are so easy to create and apply to plants. My basic ratio for these fertilizers is 1:4 and they can be applied every two weeks. Banana Beverage! While this may not look appealing to…

It was serendipitous. For a few weeks in mid-spring, my garden is the tidiest it has ever looked, thanks to an application of mulch/compost that gets put down at the beginning of every gardening season. All the winter detritus magically vanishes, leaving spring bulbs, spring-flowering perennials, and the fresh green emerging foliage of summer perennials,…