Food – Page 5 – Pandemic Survival Secrets

Growing Your Own Exotic Crops

Exotic tropical plants can be grown for more than just their lush beauty. Some of these plants are edible as well, and even in the middle of winter they can reward a patient gardener with [ … ]

Lasagna Composting: The Lazy Gardener’s Secret To Great Soil

I’ll admit it. I have a compost box, but I’m a lousy composter. Every spring, I make a renewed commitment to manage the compost successfully. I layer nitrogen and carbon materials, water the pile until [ … ]

The Survival Garden: Plan Ahead

As a homesteader, you probably have a goal of growing most of your own food. However, the road to self-sufficiency doesn’t appear overnight. Perhaps you started with a small garden with a few tomato plants [ … ]

Setting Up Espaliered Trees

It can be difficult to embody the practices that are important to you in terms of producing your own food if you have a small plot of land or simply face logistical constraints due to [ … ]

5 Gardening Tasks To Complete Before Winter

While hobbyists are enjoying their pumpkin pies and other fruits of their summer gardening labors, the serious gardener is likely to be hopping about with the year-end tasks that need to be accomplished before the [ … ]

The Best Crops For Continual Winter Harvests

A mistake that many gardeners make is allowing their vegetable patch to remain bare once the summer growing season and fall harvest have been wrapped up. In actuality, there are several great ideas for keeping [ … ]

A Quick Primer For Fall And Winter Vegetable Storage

As the nights bring frost, and your plants reach their maturity, it is time to start thinking about what you are going to do with all of that food out in your garden. While canning, [ … ]

Extending Your Growing Season

The temperatures are dropping, and you might feel a little melancholy thinking about your garden freezing under all that snow and not having any fresh produce until summertime. Put away the tissues and consider these [ … ]

Growing Vegetables Indoors

As the winter months descend upon us all, it can be a bit depressing thinking about the layers of snow blanketing our growing spaces. While some vegetables will certainly do just fine in the colder [ … ]

Winter Storage and Care for Strawberries

Strawberries are a great addition to any garden, but they do require special care and attention, especially in the winter. To keep your plants healthy and producing for many seasons, you will want to prepare [ … ]

Study Reviews The Culprits Behind Dying Bees

Since about 2006, farmers, scientists, beekeepers, and casual observers have noticed sudden declines in bee populations. Beekeepers were seeing at least 30 percent of their bee populations die or disappear each year. Scientists began calling [ ... ]
Five Secrets to a Productive Garden

If you’re considering a food garden as part of your long range emergency preparedness plans, the number one piece of advice you need embrace is: “Do your research.” The rules for successful gardening are very [ ... ]
Beautiful and Edible Ground Covers

I have found that there are a couple reasons that one might like to plant a ground covering that is edible. The first is that you have a small yard or garden plot and want [ ... ]
How To Make Your Own Essential Oils and Perfumes

Making essential oils is done by extracting the natural oils from herbs and/or flowers. These extractions can be made with oils or alcohol. Extracting Oils with Oil Oil attracts oil, bringing it out of the [ ... ]

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