By Melissa Norris | Fruit , Gardening , Podcast , Raising Your Own Food , Vegetables
Perennial plants can be the secret weapon to increase food production on your homestead with less hands on time. Best part, you can easily sneak them into your landscaping and yard to get a great return and yield of food without nearly the work you’ll put into an annual vegetable garden. But, to get the […]
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The Ultimate Seed Starting Guide- planning, starting, and mistakes to avoid to successfully grow your own food. Never ask again why did my seedlings die? What seeds should I start? Do I have to have a grow light? Seriously, when done right, seed starting can be an amazing way to increase the amount of crops […]
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While there’s nothing like picking your own groceries from the backyard, the only currency being your work, seed, soil, and water, there’s nothing quite like staring at jars of home canned goodies, dehydrated foods, and even bags of frozen pesto or berries for later jam and jelly making. All of that begins right now, or […]
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How to grow your own food if you don’t have a lot of space and the best plants to plant in regards to self-sufficiency and your own food supply. If your garden space is limited, this is the number one thing to consider when planting. Look at how the amount of harvest you’ll get from […]
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Seed saving is one of the lost arts to many modern gardeners. It’s my aim to change that. Learning how to seed save is one of the most important things you can do for you self-reliance, preparedness, and frugal nature. It’s also an important tradition we’re in danger of losing.
Read MoreBy Melissa Norris | Gardening , Raising Your Own Food , Vegetables
I don’t know about you, but if I don’t know how to do something, I’m not shy about asking. Because no one knows it all right? Between you and me, if someone does seem to know it all, I usually don’t like to hang with them for very long. While I’m a pretty old hand […]
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Planting a fall vegetable garden ensures you’ll be harvesting vegetables far into the cooler months. But you need to start planting now to harvest in fall.
Read MoreBy Melissa Norris | Gardening , Raising Your Own Food , Vegetables
There’s nothing as good as harvesting home grown vegetables from your own backyard. One of my favorite things about summer is having a free grocery store next to my house. Growing up and the first years of our marriage we planted our garden the end of May and wound up the harvest by the first […]
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Learn how and why to prune your tomato plants for a better harvest. Tomatoes have long been my nemesis crop. From the rainy summers of the Pacific Northwest, the dreaded blight, and even blossom drop. But this year, I’ve finally got a gorgeous bunch of tomato plants. And nothing, I mean nothing, is going to […]
Read MoreBy Melissa Norris | Gardening , Raising Your Own Food , Vegetables
Our goal is to have vegetable crops growing in our garden as close to all year as possible. One way to do this is to plant some cooler weather crops, or plants that will grow before the last frost date. We grow garlic over the winter, and already have our potatoes in the ground. Beets […]
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