Small Space Vegetable Gardening Urban Gardening Tips

By Melissa Norris | Gardening , Homestead-Life , Podcast , Raising Your Own Food

Small space vegetable gardening is completely doable, especially if you need to do urban gardening or even from an apartment. Today’s episode is going to be Epic! Total pun there! I’m talking with Kevin Espiritu from the Epic Gardening podcast. Kevin is an urban gardener and the founder of Epic Gardening, a gardening education company […]

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How to Improve Soil for Gardening – 3 Easy Tips

By Melissa Norris | Gardening , Podcast , Raising Your Own Food

How to improve soil for gardening with these 3 easy tips. If you have poor soil you know how frustrating it is to try and grow a garden, but good news, there is help for your soil if it’s less than ideal. The #1 most asked question from readers on the waitlist for the Pioneering […]

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Herbal Medicinal Tea – How to Make Your Own

By Melissa Norris | Herbal Remedies , Homestead-Life , Lifestyle , Natural Medicine Cabinet , Podcast

Herbal medicinal tea and how to make your own, specifically choosing the right herb. Many of us enjoy a good cup of herbal tea just because, but today we’ll look at using it in a medicinal capacity. Using herbs medicinally requires a few key things in order to be successful, both in the herb you […]

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Best Location for a Vegetable Garden – Choose the Best Position

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, […]

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Salt Cured Ham: Old-Fashioned Preserving

By 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 […]

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Breeding Chickens Naturally: Selective Breeding for Eggs & Chicks

By 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 […]

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Crop Rotation in the Garden Based on Plant Families

By 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. […]

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No Till Gardening Benefit’s & Getting Started

By 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 […]

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How to Plan Your Homestead Year with Budget & Time Restrictions

By 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 […]

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How Many Fruit & Berry Plants Per Person

By 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 […]

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