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Helpful homestead living guidance covering vegetable gardening, food preservation, DIY homestead projects, and sustainable living tips.
A Conversation with Brynne Briarwood
If you’ve been around this blog for a while, you know I occasionally step away from the garden and the chickens to talk about books. I’ve had the pleasure of interviewing some wonderful authors on this page, and today’s guest is a little different, because I’ve known her for years. Brynne Briarwood writes small town…
What Homesteading Taught Me About Patience
I am not, by nature, a patient person. I want to say that upfront, because most writing about patience — especially the kind that lives on homesteading blogs — has a slightly saintly quality to it, as though the author arrived at this life already wise, already slow, already at peace with the rhythms of…
What’s Actually in Your Seed Packet: Heirloom, Hybrid, and GMO Seeds Explained
Stand in front of a seed display long enough and the labels start to blur together. Heirloom. Open-pollinated. Hybrid. Non-GMO. Organic. The vocabulary has multiplied faster than most gardeners have had time to sort it out, and the internet hasn’t helped. Depending on which corner of it you land in, heirlooms are either the only…
The Good Neighbors: A Beginner’s Guide to Companion Planting
Gardens, it turns out, have a social life. The way we tend to picture a vegetable garden: tidy rows, one crop per bed, everything in its place, is actually a fairly recent and very human invention. Left to themselves, plants grow in communities. They share resources, signal to each other, attract or repel insects, and…
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