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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 […]

Mar 02

Perennial Plants to Increase Food Production with Less Time

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 […]

Feb 16

The Ultimate Seed Starting Guide- Planning, Starting & Mistakes to Avoid

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

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 […]

Apr 30

3 Best Plants for Companion Planting and Preserving

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

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 […]

Jan 15

The Best Vegetables for Small Spaces & Self-Sufficiency

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

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 […]

Aug 29

Seed Saving How to Save Garden Seed

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

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.

Aug 19

How to Grow Swiss Chard in your Fall Garden

By 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 […]

Aug 07

Planting a Fall Vegetable Garden

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

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.

Aug 05

5 Vegetables to Plant Now For a Fall Harvest

By 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 […]

Jul 09

How to Prune Your Tomato Plants for a Better Harvest

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

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 […]

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