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Heritage Chicken Breeds

Heritage chicken breeds are valued for their ancestry as well as their distinctive physical traits, which make their meat and eggs stand out from conventional poultry products. These in-depth profile… View »

Grow Safe, Natural Mosquito Repellents

Natural Mosquito Repellents Your outdoor spaces will be clear of mosquitoes if you plant one or more of these natural mosquito-repellent plants. Summertime, and the living is ... too mosquitoe… View »

All About Growing Grapes

Growing grapes organically can be done with all types of grape varieties, including table grapes, muscadine, labrusca and wine grapes. Learn how to grow, trellis and prune the best grape varieties… View »

40 Gardening Tips to Maximize Your Harvest

This garden maximizes yields by growing cut-and-come-again crops, such as chard, and by growing vertically on a trellis. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The best way to keep top-quality, organically grow… View »

Build A Cold Frame

An inexpensive foray into greenhouse gardening, a cold frame is practical for starting plants six to eight weeks earlier in the growingseason and for hardening off seedlings. Basically, a cold frame… View »

1 Acre Self-Sufficient Homestead

Everyone will have a different approach to keeping a self-sufficient homestead, and it’s unlikely that any two 1-acre farms will follow the same plan or methods or agree completely on how to homeste… View »

The chicken for the small garden farm.

The chicken is the easiest and most productive animal for the small garden farm, especially in terms of handling manure. Humans have known this forever, which is why in almost all so-called Third Wo… View »

Don’t Wait! Plan Your Garden Now!

Don’t Wait! Plan Your Garden Now! It might still be winter outside but it’s never too early to start planning your home vegetable garden. If you’ve already set to work organizing and ordering your se… View »

How to Grow The Top 10 Most Nutritious Vegetables in Your Garden

A perfectly ripe, juicy tomato, still warm from the sun. Sweet carrots, pulled from the garden minutes (or even seconds!) before they’re eaten. Growing your own vegetables is one of those activities… View »

Gardening with kids.

Looking for something to occupy the kids this summer? For an activity that is fun, but is also great way to teach responsibility, hard work, and healthy eating try starting a veggie garden together.… View »