Category Archives for "Gardening"

How to Grow An Herbal Tea Garden At Home + Favorite Herbal Tea Blend Recipes

By 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. […]

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5 Tips to Maximize Your Garden Yield & Beat Overwhelm

By 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 […]

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10 Tomato Growing Tips for a Disease Free Harvest

By 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 […]

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Natural Weed Control & Heirloom Flowers in the Garden

By Melissa Norris | Gardening , Podcast

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. […]

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Best Way to Germinate Seeds – How to Germinate Seeds Faster

By 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 […]

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10 Unique Heirloom Vegetables To Grow In Your Home Garden

By 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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5 Tips to Starting an Orchard and Growing Fruit

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

Starting an orchard and growing fruit on your homestead is one of the most rewarding of our food production. But it can also be frustrating if you’ve planted and aren’t getting any fruit or a low harvest. We’ll talk about the proper steps to ensure a good harvest when putting in an orchard and how […]

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Grow More Food Next Year w/ These 5 Fall Gardening Tips

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

Grow more food next year with these 5 fall gardening tips, yes please. These tips apply if you are doing raised garden beds, container gardening, regular in the ground gardening, or any type of growing your own food, aka, universal no matter where or how you’re growing. Learn how to analyze this year’s garden for […]

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Time Saving Gardening Tips

By Melissa Norris | Gardening , Podcast

Saving time in the garden is important, because modern homesteaders need all the time they can get for preserving, crafting and some time enjoying their haven. One of the things that all of us wants is to have is a beautiful crop from whatever it is we’re planting. We want to get the most produce […]

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Container Gardening for Vegetables- Everything You Need to Know

By Anastasia Sakawsky | Fruit , Gardening , Raising Your Own Food , Vegetables

Container gardening for vegetables, herbs and flowers isn’t what we typically think of when we imagine growing enough of our own food to take us through a year or do a lot of preserving. Self-sufficiency wise, we think of large fields or at the very least, large garden plots. But container gardening should definitely have […]

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