Chestnuts roasting over a Christmas fire, a warm chestnut soup, or a cake topped in chestnut cream - hungry yet? If you're thinking about growing chestnuts so you can indulge in these sweet, nutty ...
6 Easy Homemade Pesticides That Really Work
No one wants to see their plants decimated by pests. Sometimes our best option to defend our garden is by using pesticides, but who wants all those chemicals on their food? The solution is to make ...
How to Ferment Chicken Feed to Save Money and Improve Egg Production
Whether you are trying to save some money on your homestead or you simply want to boost the health of your backyard chicken flock, if you ferment your chicken feed is a great place to score on both. ...
The Complete Guide to Sun Drying Fruits and Vegetables
Drying fruits, vegetables, and herbs is a process that has been around for a long time. In fact, it's one of the earliest known methods of food preservation. Today, we take the ability to ...
How to Prepare Your Homestead for a Blizzard
Blizzards are a real threat in the winter, depending on where you live. While you might have some warning that a big storm is approaching, you never know what the weather will bring until it arrives. ...
10-10-10 Fertilizer: What It Is, and the Right and Wrong Way to Use It
Fertilizers come in such a huge variety of mixtures and different ingredients that it can be hard to narrow down which one you need. 10-10-10 is a common and popular formula you've probably seen on ...
How to Harden Off Plants and Some Tips to Do It Right
When you start seedlings indoors, you can't just set them outside one day and expect them to survive. As much as that seems simple and convenient, you'll kill your delicate seedlings. What you have to ...
10 Tips to Help You Maximize Your Greenhouse Space
Greenhouses are costly and timeconsuming to build. They require care and money to keep heated and cooled in most climates. Plus, they need regular maintenance to clean the windows or panels so they ...
9 Fire Prevention and Management Tools to Protect Your Home and Family
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. It's more prudent to head off a disaster beforehand than to deal with it after it occurs. Henry De Bracton (English ...