When I first started chicken keeping, I didn't realize how much raising chickens was like keeping a garden. By that, I mean there's the routine daily maintenance like feeding, watering, and coop ...
How to Sell Shiitake Mushrooms and Make Profit from Your Mushroom-Growing Hobby
What started as a hobby because of a fascination with exotic mushrooms and French Cuisine, has now turned into a profitable business. The last guide on Growing Shiitake Mushrooms explains how my ...
Incubation & Gestation Calculator for Livestock, Insects, and Aquatic Animals
I am lazy at math. So, whenever I expose my female goats to my buck, I always have to track down an online gestation calculator to figure out when I'll have babies due. Then, I have to do the same ...
Downy Mildew: Identification, Plants at Risk, Prevention, and Treatment
Most homesteaders can easily spot the signs of powdery mildew in their garden. The tell-tale signs of a powdered sugar looking substance on the tops of plant leaves is hard to miss. Downy mildew ...
Are Nematodes a Friend or Foe for Your Garden and Livestock?
Nematodes often get a bad wrap on our homesteads. We worry about root-knot nematodes ruining our tomatoes, peppers, eggplants, okra, peas, and more. Those sneaky little critters attach to our plant ...
A Beginners Guide to Using Fungicide in the Organic Garden
There was a time in my life that I used to think anything called a fungus was a bad thing. Now that I grow an organic garden with soil full of beneficial fungi and eat shiitake mushrooms daily, I ...
How to Kill Spotted Lanternfly and Save your Fruit Trees
A few years ago I signed up to receive all the agricultural pest and disease notifications for my region by email. Mostly, I get to ignore the notices because they don't apply to organic gardeners. ...
Growing Fenugreek: Plant Varieties, How-to Guide, Problems, and Harvesting
Conjure the scent of that "maple-flavored" syrup you put on pancakes as a child. You know, that comforting, caramelized candy scented stuff that wafted across the kitchen entrancing you to the table. ...
5 Best Summer Cover Crops and How to Use Them
I know a lot of gardeners who have started to use winter cover crops to keep their garden protected from erosion, add fertility, and suppress weeds. Despite the popularity of winter cover crops, ...