Seeds vs Seedlings: Growing Food From Scratch
Starting seeds allows you to control the growing process, while buying seedlings saves time and hassle for busy gardeners. Here's when to choose one or the other!
Gardening & Growing Food
Adventures in gardening for self-sufficiency: growing your own food and processing your harvest
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Which vegetables should you grow for self-sufficiency
Choosing vegetables you want to eat and that you can grow successfully ...
What to Do in the Garden in March
Gardening in March is a balancing act, making sure you get stuff done in ...
Starting Seeds Indoors vs Outdoors: Pros and Cons and Best Practices
Should you start seeds in trays or containers indoors, or sowing directly ...
Finding the Sweet Spot: Picking a Location for your Vegetable Garden
Picking the perfect location(s) for your garden is about imagining how gardening activities will fit into your everyday life. This decision can impact your life in many different ways!
Vermicomposting: How to Use Worms to Make Compost
Vermicomposting means letting earth worms turn your scraps into nutrient-rich compost. Learn how it works, set up your system, and harvest compost for your garden!
What to do in the Garden in January
January may be a bit cold to do a lot of gardening, but it’s a great month to do some planning, and catch up with winter gardening chores.
Matching Vegetables to their Preferred Soil Type + Pros and Cons of different Types of Soil
Discover different types of soil and learn how soil type and management can impact the types of plants that will thrive in your vegetable garden.
Best 5 Vegetables to Grow For Self-Sufficiency
What are the best 5 vegetables to grow for self-sufficiency? We listed them and added some recipes and growing tips for each!
How to Start a Garden from Scratch – in 7 Easy Steps
Whether you’re new at gardening and have never done it before, or you’re just starting a vegetable garden from scratch in a new location, these are the 7 steps that make it fun to set up your veggie garden!
The Surprising Benefits of Hugelkultur, a Permaculture Soil-Building Technique
Hugelkultur is a technique often used in permaculture gardening to build and manage soil. It relies on stacking wood and other organic materials at different levels to create a raised garden bed. The wood decays over time, leaving behind composted layers of nutrients.
Square-Foot Gardening: Growing Food on a Small Scale
You don’t actually need much space to grow your own food. In fact, you can grow salad in balcony hanging boxes or ...
Choosing the Right Spot to Start a Permaculture Garden
Many factors may help you decide the best place to plant a permaculture garden. The location as it relates to your house, permaculture zones, water and accessibility your own preferences and lifestyle are just a few of these.
Make sure that your garden isn't located in high traffic areas where people might trample your vegetation; see if you can move it to a less-used section of the yard.
How to Grow Great Tasty Tomatoes from Seed
Growing tomatoes from seed is not hard, you just need to know what you're doing. Read all about selecting your tomato seeds, starting seeds, transplanting and growing healthy tasty tomatoes!
How to Build Raised Garden Beds
Raised garden beds put less strain on the body, are easier to combat weeds, better at draining in the summer and maintaining warmth in the winter, more space-efficient — and they look fantastic. Plus they're quite easy to construct!
How to Grow Calendula from Seed: the Definitive Step-By-Step Process
Calendula (also known as pot marigold) is not only pleasing to the eye, but also has wonderful medicinal and therapeutic benefits. The flower reseeds itself annually, which makes it pretty easy to grow it from seed.
What to do in the Garden in February – Winter Gardening Chores
February isn't the most fun month to be spending in the garden, but we selected 8 chores you can do to prep for spring - without freezing your extremities off.
7 Things To Do in The Garden in December
The end of the year approaches, again. For many people, December is synonymous with family, dinner parties and ...
How to Preserve Food and Store your Backyard Harvest: 5 Foolproof Techniques (with recipes!)
Discover different ways to store and preserve food. Includes easy delicious recipes to get started with preserving the harvest!
When’s the Best Time to Start a Garden?
In the world of gardening, one of the most frequently asked questions “when should I start a garden?” As you ...
Starting a Permaculture Homestead in Spain
We started a small-scale permaculture homestead in Spain wanting to grow our food and work with nature in a sustainable way, using permaculture techniques and frameworks. This is how we did it.
What is Permaculture?
Permaculture is a set of design principles aimed at working with nature (rather than against it), as well as supporting or mimicking naturally occurring patterns and features found in nature.
Harvesting Olives for Olive Oil and Eating
Olive harvest from A to Z - and pressing olive oil and preserving olives for eating too!
Gardening From Seed: Planning a Garden to Grow your Own Food
In theory, gardening from seed is pretty straightforward. Get seeds, put them in the ground and wait until a plant emerges. However, there are a few pitfalls - avoid the most important ones with this quick guide!
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