By Melissa Norris | Natural Medicine Cabinet , Podcast , Raising Your Own Food
Medicinal herbs and their uses for growing an herbal tea garden, more specifically eight of my favorites! You ready? Today we’re diving into a fun subject, and that is how to grow herbal tea at home. Growing an herbal tea garden is fun because it’s really easy, and at the end you can dry your […]
Read MoreBy Anastasia Sakawsky | DIY Recipes & Tutorials , Gardening , Natural Medicine Cabinet , Raising Your Own Food
How to grow an herbal tea garden at home, because if you’re a tea drinker (and who isn’t at least once in a while), then why not grow your own herbal tea garden at home? You’ll save money, you’ll KNOW it’s all organic and you can make your own blends tailored to your specific tastes. […]
Read MoreBy Melissa Norris | Gardening , Podcast , Raising Your Own Food
Maximize your garden yield and beat overwhelm, almost sounds too good to be true, huh? When it comes to gardening, it can be really easy to fall behind and feel overwhelmed with everything that needs to be done, or even to miss important windows for planting certain crops or fertilizing for maximum production. And then […]
Read MoreBy Melissa Norris | Gardening , Podcast , Raising Your Own Food
Tomato growing tips for a disease free harvest, can I get an amen! Today we are talking all about growing tomatoes; specifically, how to grow healthy tomatoes and how to avoid many of the common things that plague them. Because, as the saying goes, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. And […]
Read MoreBy Melissa Norris | Podcast , Raising Your Own Food
How to start beekeeping, because honey bees offer us so much besides the delicious liquid gold we love to sweeten our foods. Even though when we typically think of livestock on the homestead, we tend to think of raising chickens for eggs and meat, cows for milk and grass-fed beef, maybe even goats and pigs, […]
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Natural weed control and heirloom flowers in the garden. Can I get an amen? How to create beauty using flowers, not only in your homestead flower beds, but also in the vegetable garden so that you can create a haven wherever you look on your homestead. I do not have a ton of experience with flowers. […]
Read MoreBy Melissa Norris | Gardening , Podcast , Raising Your Own Food
Today we’re talking the best way to germinate seeds, including germination tips and how to get your seeds to sprout sooner, because the sooner those bad boys sprout, the sooner they grow into plants and the faster we are putting homegrown food on the table. Can I get an Amen? Listen in below to the […]
Read MoreBy Melissa Norris | Podcast , Raising Your Own Food
How much time per week does it take to raise a year’s worth of food or a large vegetable garden with fruit? Today we’re diving into how much time it really takes to raise a year’s worth of food. This is a question I get asked often, so I wanted to share a glimpse into […]
Read MoreBy Melissa Norris | Podcast , Raising Your Own Food
These spring gardening tips will help you get a bigger harvest from your garden this year and will help save you some frustration in the future. I truly believe gardening and raising our own food should be as easy as possible. At the time of publishing, it’s mid-March, which means it’s the time of year […]
Read MoreBy Anastasia Sakawsky | Gardening , Podcast , Raising Your Own Food
Heirloom vegetables are a special breed, quite literally. Cultivated from seeds passed down through generations, sometimes over hundreds or even thousands of years, they’ve evolved into the most naturally delicious, nutritious, beautiful and uniquely adapted vegetable varieties on the planet. Here’s just a sampling of the huge diversity of heirloom vegetables that you can grow […]
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