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Apr 10

What Fruit & Nut Producing Trees to Plant Now & Uncommon Plants that are Edible

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

Knowing what fruit and nut producing trees to plant for an earlier harvest is extremely helpful so you can choose the best varieties to feed your family. We also highlight some fun uncommon plants that are edible and provide beauty to your yard and landscape. Today’s episode has so much great information as well as […]

Mar 14

How to Grow Elderberries & Planting Tips

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

Learn to grow elderberries with these easy planting tips. Elderberries are known for their wonderful berries, prized as homegrown medicine and their showy white blossoms. With the shortage and cost increase of elderberries, there’s never been a better time to grow your own. They’ve been long praised for their medicinal purposes and make a delicious […]

Mar 01

How to Prune Apple Trees in Winter

By Melissa Norris | Fruit , Raising Your Own Food

If you have apple trees, knowing how to prune apple trees correctly is critical to the health of your trees and the amount of harvest you’ll receive. Learn how to prune apple trees in winter or if your climate is more suited to summer pruning. Pruning is necessary for many reasons, it helps to reduce […]

Feb 27

When and How to Plant Fruit Trees

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

Late winter and early spring are the time to plant fruit trees and bushes. While I love my veggie garden, there is a beauty in only having to plant something once and being able to harvest if for years to come. Can I get a holler? No, sheesh, this is exciting stuff, okay, at least […]

Feb 21

How to Care for Fruit Trees In Fall & Winter

By Melissa Norris | Fruit , Gardening , Podcast

How to care for fruit trees in fall and winter is very important for the longevity of your orchard and harvests. Fall and winter care of fruit trees look different but each season is important. Today we’re talking with an expert, Joe from Raintree Nursery. Raintree Nursery was started in 1972 by Sam Benowitz with […]

Jan 28

Pruning Blueberry Bushes & Blueberry Bush Care

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

Pruning blueberry bushes and proper blueberry bush care can help yield not only a larger harvest but also larger, juicier berries. Follow these easy step by step instructions on how to prune blueberries and properly amend the soil for quality growth. Why Should I Prune My Blueberry Bushes? It seems so contradictory to cut OFF […]

Oct 16

How to Treat Fruit Trees Organically: When to Spray for Disease

By 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 […]

Oct 09

How to Care for Berry Plants in the Fall (to increase next year’s harvest)

By 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 […]

Feb 08

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 […]

May 17

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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Hey there, I'm Melissa, Mason jar addict, 5th generation homesteader, who helps people get back to homemade, homegrown, and old-fashioned living at its best.