Guide to Growing Garlic

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Guide to Growing Garlic

Guide to Growing Garlic

While I could never pick a favorite crop, garlic has earned its keep on our homestead time and time again. Follow this guide and get a garlic crop of your own growing! 

Terraced Garden Beds in 8 Simple Steps

Terraced Garden Beds in 8 Simple Steps

Most of the gardens I’ve built have been on hillsides or slopes. Especially here in West Virginia, flat land can be hard to come by. To create productive garden beds

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Springtime Hope: Tips for Growing Healthy Seedlings

Springtime Hope: Tips for Growing Healthy Seedlings

I think that starting seeds indoors each early spring is one of my favorite parts of gardening. It’s can still be cold and dreary, but a shelf full of tiny

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16 Vegan Protein Sources that You Can Grow in Your Backyard

16 Vegan Protein Sources that You Can Grow in Your Backyard

One of the criticisms I’ve heard about vegan homesteading is that you just can’t live off vegetables. To be honest I totally get where they’re coming from. I read about

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Selecting Cut Flower Varieties for the Farm

Selecting Cut Flower Varieties for the Farm

Pickin’ wildflowers. That is it. That’s really all the experience I have with flowers. I don’t even generally like flowery things or colors. So guess who’s starting a cut flower garden

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Racing Towards Winter

Racing Towards Winter

  Fall is a sprint. It’s like that bite in the air that we wake up to every morning now speeds everything up. Spring is supposed to be the season

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Crafting Herbal Teas

Crafting Herbal Teas

Welcome autumn! It has finally started to really cool off here and I am so, so, so grateful. In the evenings it has been dipping into the 50s. The perfect

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How We Made Our Large Garden Super Manageable

How We Made Our Large Garden Super Manageable

At our last homestead our garden was mostly a hillside. Simply out of necessity we terraced our hillside into permanent raised beds. We learned from that experience that there’s a

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The Complete Guide to Growing Comfrey

The Complete Guide to Growing Comfrey

Scott’s been hard at work on our new house site with more trees coming down every weekend. Soon it’ll be time for me to start moving some of our existing

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10 Perennials You Can Get for Free

10 Perennials You Can Get for Free

Gardening really is a thrifty thing to do but it does take a chunk of money up front to get your garden going. Perennials especially can be big bucks at

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