Category: Basic Skills
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Harvest and Succession Plant Your Homestead Potager
The garden explosion happened. Those tiny, seedlings I showed pictures of in the last post Plant Your Homestead Potager suddenly started to look like fully-fledged plants. Even when you visit your garden daily, and observe the incremental growth, there is still this moment when you realize “Wow, this is a real garden.” Honestly, it was…
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Homestead Potager Garden Bed Design
The first gardens were forest gardens. Actually they were more like cultivated forests than gardens. The plants that humans found beneficial, they encouraged. The plants that didn’t have utility were removed. Eventually, early gardeners installed fences to protect their food supply from being eaten by other free-ranging forest animals. There’s no precise information on when forest…
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Recognizing Resources
The world is a mess. The climate is beyond repair and all we can do now is wait for disaster after disaster to destroy us. All of our institutions are so completely fragile that the next big event might mean the end of our entire way of life. If you really believed that, would you…
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The Importance of Observation
How did we figure things out before the internet? Did we learn at school? In the US, children weren’t required to attend school until about 100 years ago. As such, schools have only been a source of learning for large populations in recent times. Did we learn from books? Books have been around for thousands…
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Seed Starting
Seeds may look like tiny, innocuous things. But they have the power to explode into life with the least bit of encouragement. Often, a little water and warmth can ignite that spark of transformation. The Seed Life Cycle The tiny living being that emerges has no idea what waits on the other side. All it…
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Simple Homesteading Starts Now
Start living your homesteading dreams today. Simple steps and a strong commitment make it easy.