Once you have mastered the standard vegetables most gardeners grow, you may want to branch out into lesser-known, heirloom edible plants. Taking a leaf out of our ancestor's book or trying ...
Food Security Garden: Smart Ways to Supplement Your Food Budget
Food prices keep skyrocketing, but our incomes aren't necessarily increasing to match them. Cultivating a food security garden at home is an ideal way to keep food on the table when money's tight. ...
Accessible Gardening: 10 Ways to Make Your Garden Inclusive
No matter your stage in life, circumstances, abilities, skills, or physical limitations, there are ways to enjoy gardening. Accessible gardening is all about finding ways to make growing food and ...
Gournay Chicken: Meet This Heritage Breed With Exceptional Meat
There are so many heritage chickens in the world that we rarely encounter. If you think about it, many of our common, easy-to-find chicken breeds are incredibly new. They’re varieties of chickens our ...
12 Beneficial Topical Herbal Remedies Backed by Science
Homesteaders have to deal with a wide variety of external health issues, including cuts, scrapes, bruises, rashes, blisters, burns, and even fungal infections. Fortunately, Mother Nature offers us ...
Herding Dogs: Why You Should Consider These Clever Breeds for Your Homestead
Dogs make fantastic companions and excellent assistants that lighten the load around the homestead. Certain dogs have jobs that they were developed to do. Livestock guardians keep your animals ...
Bielefleder Kennhuhn Chicken: Meet This Big, Beautiful Chicken Breed
Bielefleder Kennhuhn are some of the hardiest chickens around when it comes to cold weather. Developed in Germany in the 1970s, this relatively new breed is a cross between cold-hardy Welsummers, ...
Growing Grapefruits: Planting, Care, and Harvest
We have friends living in warm climates. Their home is deep in the Florida heat and their garden is full of mangos, papaya, grapefruit, and avocados. One year, they sent us a box of sunshine at ...
10 Important Things to Know When Raising Chicks
As the cost of living skyrockets and self-reliance becomes even more crucial in our everyday lives, we need to become more resourceful. One way of achieving this is by raising chickens. Whether you ...