Are you interested in growing your own healthy food, becoming more self-reliant, saving money, and planning for the future? If you answered yes to any of those questions, you’ll be happy to know that perennial fruits will help accomplish all of these goals. Your initial investment of time and money…
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Perennial Vegetables for Self-Reliance
Perennial Vegetables for Self-Reliance Planting perennial vegetables allows you to harvest food every year without having to plant seeds each spring. Of course, it’s a good idea to plant annual vegetables too! But asparagus, rhubarb (yes, it’s a veggie!), French sorrel, and other perennial vegetables will provide for your family…
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Starting Cool-Season Crops for Spring
Starting Your Cool-Season Veggies Indoors If you live in a more northern climate, like me, you are probably just starting to think about getting your garden cleaned up and ready for spring. Warm weather crops, like tomatoes and peppers, will need to be started inside in a couple of weeks…
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Canning Cupboard
Storing Home Canned Goods For more information, read my post How To Store Your Home Canned Foods It’s important to store your home canned meats, fruits and vegetables properly. Cool temperatures and dark conditions help to retain the color, flavor, and nutrients of your canned goods. You also need to…
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Seeds for Self Sufficiency
Heirloom Seeds Most gardeners purchase fresh packets of seeds each year to plant their garden. There’s nothing wrong with this, of course. However, if you would like to ‘save a little green’ and become more self sufficient, heirloom seeds are just the ticket! Heirloom seeds allow you to save seed…
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Double Red Amaryllis
Growing Amaryllis I haven’t had the best of luck with Amaryllis over the years. There was one pretty white and pink Amaryllis that flowered and survived for a few years as one of my houseplants. But I never really got the hang of putting it into dormancy and then inducing…
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Wanna Go Homesteady? Part 2
Making the Most of What You Have Moving Won’t Work for Everyone Last week, in part 1 of “Wanna Go Homesteady?”, I talked about how we moved from a suburban lot to our 1 acre property in the country. We are so happy that we moved here and I know…
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Winter Homesteading Tasks
I sat down over the weekend and made a list of tasks I need to complete in January and February around our homestead. It almost seems too late to be including January, but I want to get started on this list asap, so here it goes! I’m sure there is…
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Wanna Go Homesteady? Part 1
Finding Our Homestead So many people are interested in the homesteading lifestyle, they’re everywhere! Urbanites, suburbanites, apartment and condo dwellers, 20-somethings, and old-timers too…from all walks of life there are folks who want to move out to the country and eat a lot of peaches. In other words, they all…
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Butter Mold
For more information, check out my post How to Make Raw Butter. Antique Butter Mold I love antique butter molds, don’t you?! I’ve been admiring old wooden butter molds in antique shops for ages. But I always walk by them thinking something along the lines of “Yeah, right… like I’m…