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How to create a new garden bed

How to Create a New Garden Bed

Not even 100 years ago, every family had a vegetable garden. Children learned from their parents, and each home typically had an established garden. That has changed, but increasingly, people are returning to gardening and growing their own food. Gardens are both rewarding and fun. So how can you ...

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Making and planting seed bombs

Making and planting seed bombs

The practice of making and planting seed bombs is not new. Native Americans had mud around corn seeds to protect them from birds. Masanobu Fukuoka, a Japanese farmer, and philosopher incorporated seed bombs into the world of sustainable agriculture. He called it ‘natural farming’. With seed bombs, ...

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Row cover tunnel

Row cover tunnel

A row cover tunnel is a simple way to extend the growing season and protect plants from cold, wind, hail, insects, wildlife, and more.  Since there are many uses for a row cover tunnel in the garden, there are also many different materials to use and ways to do it.  In this blog ...

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Everything you need to know about line dry laundry

Everything you need to know about line dry laundry

With utility costs rising, line dry laundry is becoming interesting again. Growing up I did not know there was another way of drying laundry except line drying. Maybe growing up you did not know there is another way than a dryer. That's how things have changed. Anyway, if you want to know how to ...

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Follow your intuition

Following your Intuition in everyday life

Following your intuition in everyday life is a subject that I have been wanting to write about for quite a while. But always hesitated. For one I thought following your intuition is so obvious, why would anyone even want to read it. After all, that's what intuition is, you just know.  On the ...

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Create a better world

Why we are not prepping

Survivalists or preppers who actively prepare for an emergency, disaster, end of the world, or the coming of zombies seem to like our blog. We are sometimes asked about prepping, or what we think about it. In our world, it would seem that everyone should be prepared. However, we do not consider ...

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5 Ways to Preserve Food

Food preservation is essential when living in a cold climate with a short growing season. To eat homegrown food all year round, we must store it away. Here are five ways to preserve food that we use. These are the five ways to preserve vegetables, fruit, and herbs.  Long-term storage Simple ...

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Turn a yard into a garden

Turn a Yard Into a Garden

Living in a town or city house, either owning or renting you might not consider that you are able to grow a big portion of your own food in a healthy, organic way. However, that is possible. We want to encourage everyone to turn a common yard into a bountiful edible garden. In this post, we ...

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My house may be a mess, but you should see my garden

FlyLady System for Homesteading

"My house may be a mess, but you should see my garden" - can you relate? As a homesteader, we could add "but you should see my pantry, or my barn, or my cellar". It seems there are always more important things to do than cleaning and organizing the house. The FlyLady system comes to the rescue for ...

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Animal-Free Homestead

Animal-Free Homestead

Update: This animal-free homestead article was written 2 and a half years ago (2019) a bit over a year after we started our journey on a plant-based diet. I call it a journey since we had no idea where it would take us. We thought it was just about what was on our plate to eat. Soon we realized it ...

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