Tag: homesteading
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The Homestead Potager Garden Design
In previous posts, I covered some things I know to be beneficial about choosing your potager location and designing your paths and bed styles. I also explained why I think it’s really important to make a vegetable garden functional and beautiful and inviting. Now I want to cover a few other practical considerations that may…
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Pathways For Your Homestead Potager
When you see past the pretty flowers and profuse plantings, you’ll discover that every garden has bones and secrets buried beneath. A garden’s design and its underlying infrastructure dictate how well it works and how much work it takes to maintain that garden. The Beaten Path For example, when I visit a garden that has…
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Starting a Homestead Potager
I strongly believe that all in-ground homestead vegetable gardens should be “potagers”. Potager is a French word that embodies the idea of both a functional kitchen garden and a beautiful space that allows for creative expression and cultivation of your gardening skills. Potagers have lots of vegetables, of course. However, they often include plants to…
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Less Trash + More Bokashi = Garden Love
I hate to take out the trash. It actually makes me sad when I see all the stuff I send (or used to send) to the landfill. That’s because I know the place I send my trash is in the middle of a rural, residential zone. Property is cheaper over there. I suspect that’s because…
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Garden Dreams and Compost Calculations
Are you dreaming of a big, beautiful garden full of lush, tasty vegetables and fruits? Can you image the smell of a ripe tomato or of the earth as you carefully loosen pounds of perfect potatoes from your rich, loamy soil? Do your future beans, corn, and sunflowers climb 12 feet in the air and…
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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.