By Melissa Norris | Gardening , Podcast
Find the best location for a vegetable garden and how to choose the best position so you can grow as much food as possible for your family without battling the wrong spot for a plant. Choosing the best location and position for your vegetables, fruits, and herbs is important for the health of the plant, […]
Read MoreBy Lee Totten | Food Preservation , Food Preservation - Other , Miscellaneous , Recipes
How to salt cure ham at home has been on my homesteading bucket list for a few years now. Being able to preserve food with old-fashioned techniques, like salt curing pork, is a skill I find as fascinating as I do yummy. Bring me the bacon! And ham! When Lee from Tennessee Homestead offered to […]
Read MoreBy Melissa Norris | Chickens , Livestock , Podcast , Raising Your Own Food
Breeding chickens naturally using selective breeding for eggs and chicks, either to build up your own flock or to create a homestead income from your chickens, can be a great way to support yourself and keep heritage breeds alive. I recently read The Homesteader’s Natural Chicken Keeping Handbook by Amy Fewell and knew I had […]
Read MoreBy Melissa Norris | Gardening , Podcast
Crop rotation in the garden based on plant families for an easy to create system for the home vegetable garden so you have healthier soil and less disease. Today we are going to be diving into one of my favorite topics because it’s made a huge difference in my garden since I started doing it. […]
Read MoreBy Melissa Norris | Gardening , Podcast , Raising Your Own Food
No till gardening pro’s and getting started using a no till method in your garden plus some fun tips for growing amazing tomatoes in containers! My guest today, Joe Lamp’l from the Joe Gardener Show Podcast as well as the Growing a Greener World TV show, is passionate about organic gardening methods and is a […]
Read MoreBy Melissa Norris | Podcast , Raising Your Own Food
How to plan your homestead year and prioritize your food and livestock goals. I confess I have not always been a planner. In fact, for many years of my life, I was the fly by the seat of my pants type of gal. Always thinking we’d just get it done when it needs to be […]
Read MoreBy Melissa Norris | Gardening , Podcast
How many fruit & berry plants per person for a year’s worth of food do you need to plant? Oftentimes there isn’t a lot of focus on how many fruit trees or berry plants to put into the garden in order to feed your family for a full year. The focus is typically on annual […]
Read MoreBy Melissa Norris | Gardening , Podcast
One of the most asked questions I get is what specific variety of plants we use on the homestead. So in today’s episode, we’re diving into all the varieties of plants we grow in our garden! Before I tell you the exact specific varieties that we grow here on my homestead. I do need to […]
Read MoreBy Melissa Norris | Gardening , Podcast , Raising Your Own Food
Where to buy heirloom seeds and what’s the real difference between an heirloom, hybrid, or GMO seed? These are questions I get asked quite a bit. I’ll cover all this and more in today’s episode as many of us are planning out our garden, figuring out what plants we’ll be seed starting, and ordering the […]
Read MoreBy Melissa Norris | Gardening , Podcast
Learning how to assess seed packet information and reading those seed packets can make a big difference in your gardening success. Back when we first started raising our own garden which was, *cough* 20 years ago. I didn’t really understand as much as I do now. I especially didn’t know about what seed variety that […]
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