Tag Archives: gardening
Preserving Summer Squash and Saving Seeds
It’s that time of year for us… the summer squash is starting to produce. We usually get more squash than we need with just a handful of plants in our garden. In real good years we often find squash sitting … Click HERE to read the entire post….
Posted in DIY, Food
Tagged canning, do it yourself, gardening, long term food storage
Book Review: Maximizing Your Mini Farm
The good folks at Skyhorse Publishing provided us with several books to read and review. Here is our review of “Maximizing Your Mini Farm, Self-Sufficiency on 1/4 Acre” written by Brett L. Markham Before I get into our thoughts on … Click HERE to read the entire post….
Posted in DIY, Equipment, Food, News, Reviews
Tagged canning, do it yourself, gardening, long term food storage
Using Stored Beans for Seed: Update
It’s been a week and a half since we planted three different varieties of dried beans that we keep in storage. We planted 10 seeds of each into a container of a topsoil / compost mix. We have had some … Click HERE to read the entire post….
Posted in DIY, Food
Tagged canning, do it yourself, gardening, long term food storage
Book Review: The Ultimate Guide To Permaculture
The good folks at Skyhorse Publishing provided us with several books to read and review. Here is our review of The Ultimate Guide to Permaculture, written by Nicole Faires Before I get into our thoughts on this book here are … Click HERE to read the entire post….
Posted in DIY, Food, Reviews, Shelter
Tagged do it yourself, edible wild plants, foraging, gardening, permaculture, water filtration
Using Stored Beans for Seed
This isn’t a new idea at all but we’ve never attempted to plant the store-bought beans that we keep in our food supply. We’re planting three varieties of beans that we’ve never grown before. The beans were purchased from a … Click HERE to read the entire post….
Posted in DIY, Food
Tagged gardening, long term food storage
Survival Garden: Five Dual-Duty Vegetables every prepper should know how to grow
Getting the most produce out of our garden space has always been a challenge for us. It’s been fun learning how to grow our own food and I’m thankful that we haven’t had to rely totally upon what we’ve been … Click HERE to read the entire post….
Guerrilla Gardening Successes and Failures
The term “guerrilla gardening” has been around for awhile…most recently it’s been recycled by an activist group intent on urban beautification. This article will be discussing the old-school meaning of the term that was first heard back in the 1980s. … Click HERE to read the entire post….
Posted in Food, Foraging
Tagged edible wild plants, foraging, gardening, helping others
