If you're looking for an introductory guide to planting potatoes, we’ve got one called Growing Potatoes: Varieties, Planting Guide, Care, Problems, and Harvest. This post right here isn’t a basic ...
Gardening Crash Course: Grow & Harvest Your First Vegetable in Under a Month
Have you decided to take the leap and start gardening? Congratulations! A wise decision. I believe growing a garden is one of the best ways to show your love for the environment, increase your ...
12 Spring Transition Tips to Keep Your Goats Happy and Healthy
Spring is an exciting time of year for all of us, including our goats. All of our spring greens start growing in. So, instead of eating lots of potatoes and sweet potatoes (humans) and hay and grain ...
Duck Nesting Habits and 7 Tricks to Collect Clean Duck Eggs Easily
There are a lot of similarities between keeping ducks and chickens. They can be kept in similar style coops or shelters with just a few modifications. They can both eat chicken food, as long as you ...
20 Self-Sufficiency Hacks You Can Implement Right Now
In a perfect world, we’d all have plenty of time to prepare for emergencies and increase our self-sufficiency to be more resilient. The reality is that we have limited time available to devote to ...
When and How to Use Humic Acid Fertilizer to Improve Soil
In my early gardening experience, I naively thought that I grew plants. Now, I realize that an incredibly fascinating and intelligent, natural system actually grows plants. I just offer a little ...
How to Decide the Correct Plant Spacing in Your Garden
I am constantly reading guides on how to grow various plants. If I introduce something new to my garden line-up, I check at least 15 growing guides to make sure I have well-rounded knowledge about how ...
When and How to Use Rock Dust for Your Garden
I was searching for some garden information the other day and I came across a video of someone conducting a soil amendment experiment on their raised beds. They used compost in one bed, another bed ...
10 Tips on Long-Term Garden Care for More Productivity
A homestead garden is a long-term commitment. It can take between 5-10 years just to develop high-quality soil. By gradually improving your soil year after year, your harvests will become more ...