By Melissa Norris | Gardening , Livestock , Podcast , Raising Your Own Food
When freezing temps and winter storms are on the way, a homesteader has more to deal with than a regular household. I’m walking you through a week on our homestead and tips you can use when you have freezing tips or storms moving in. If you haven’t had the wild winter weather hitting your area […]
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Sheet mulching is one of the easiest ways to build up your soil, in fact, I’m going to call it the lazy way to compost and that makes it one of my favorites! When it comes to growing a productive and healthy garden, it always comes back down to the health of your soil. In […]
Read MoreBy Melissa Norris | Cattle , Livestock , Podcast , Raising Your Own Food
When getting your beef from a local farmer or raising it yourself, you need to know when butchering a cow (technically a bovine and usually a steer or heifer) cuts of meat that are essential to make sure you’re getting the most from the animal and the cuts that will serve you and your family […]
Read MoreBy Melissa Norris | Cattle , Homestead-Life , Livestock , Podcast
How to get the most from your grass fed beef on butcher day. When you’re raising or purchasing your own beef, you want to make sure you’re getting as most from it as possible, but many people don’t know there are quite a few cuts of meat you should be getting right on butcher day. […]
Read MoreBy Melissa Norris | Gardening , Podcast , Vegetables
Plant covers for cold weather gardening so you can grow vegetables all year long (or as close to possible) and what vegetables will be fine through the winter without any protection at all! We know that as homesteaders and gardeners, our goal is to grow as long as possible. This allows us to harvest our […]
Read MoreBy Melissa Norris | Gardening , Podcast , Raising Your Own Food
Tips for gardening and homesteading that are free or low cost and make a big impact, I’ll take ’em! It’s that time of year that many of us are reflecting on what we can do next year to have a better harvest and save money on projects and other stuff to run the homestead. Most of […]
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Learning how to improve soil health is the single biggest thing any gardener can do to grow a better garden. As gardeners and homesteaders, we depend on the harvest of our garden because we all know if we have a bad harvest it can change the trajectory of whether we have enough fresh food to […]
Read MoreBy Melissa Norris | Fruit , Gardening , Podcast
How to treat fruit trees organically, because let’s be honest, not many of us want little worms in our apples and some diseases if left unchecked can damage a tree and the harvest. I don’t know about you, but growing organic is important to me but so is getting a harvest, luckily, we don’t have […]
Read MoreBy Melissa Norris | Fruit , Gardening , Podcast
Fall is the perfect time of year to get a jump start on next year’s berry harvest. The beauty of berry bushes is they truly require very little care for the reward of buckets of fruit. Now is the time of year to do a quick evaluation on the health of your plants and prepare […]
Read MoreBy Melissa Norris | Gardening , Podcast , Raising Your Own Food
Raised bed gardening tips for vegetable gardening. Raised beds are beloved by many a gardener but aren’t for every garden or situation. Like any type of garden bed, they have their pros and cons and tips to consider if they’re right for your garden. Listen in below to the full podcast, Episode #204 Raised Bed Gardening […]
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