Gardening – Gardening Techniques

Water management is essential for homesteaders wanting to utilize efficient and sustainable agricultural practices. Two of the most common...

Homesteaders and regenerative gardens connect closely through their shared focus on self-sufficiency, sustainability, and resilience. To start a...

If you've been looking at various gardening techniques for small areas, you've probably run across the term Square Foot Gardening. Here, we'll...

It's fall, y'all, and we're looking at all of these changing leaves with a mixture of love and dread in our hearts. Sure, our gardens will be fallow...

As a homesteader, I find joy in being self-sufficient and growing my own produce in a small garden. While I may not have truckloads of produce, I...

I have a confession to make:  I used to hate composting. The smell, the mess, and the endless waiting. These days, things have changed. I use now...

These three sisters planting gardens kept Native Americans of several different communities alive for thousands of years. Easily planted together,...

Homesteaders are always looking for innovative agricultural practices to maximize productivity at the same time as minimize resource consumption....

Starting a vegetable garden in containers is easy. Container vegetable gardens are ideal for beginners who simply want to keep a couple of plants or...

Composting is a great technique to cut waste, enhance soil health, and create nutrient-rich compost for gardening. Not all items, however, can be...

So we know a few tips about reducing waste, since everyone wants to be more sustainable. In this modern world where pollution is a huge part of our...

Nature has blessed humans with many things so that we can survive. Worm composting is a way to breakdown naturally everything that is...

There is nothing better than sinking your teeth into a crisp, fresh, tasting cucumber. They make awesome salads, pickles, drinks, and much more. You...

Owning a healthy and ever-growing garden needs a perfect soil type. And loamy soil is an excellent type of soil for all the garden needs. It...

We all dream of big, luscious gardens with huge plots of land and the ability to till it until our arms are ready to fall off. Unfortunately, that...

Technically speaking – any living organism is compostable. But logically speaking – not every living organism should be composted. That also goes...

Straw bale gardening is a wonderful way to grow a few plants in a tiny space and have a fully-compostable garden at your disposal. While easy, there...

Straw Bales 101! So, you've decided to try tossing a straw bale out onto your lawn, maybe poke some seeds into it, and see what happens, right?...

Approximately 95% of our food is grown in soil; therefore, for nutrient-rich food production, healthy soil is essential in your garden. Soils supply...

The dream of a simple, contained garden that produces bountiful vegetables drove me to container gardening. When I found insects and birds still...

Composting is simply using Mother Nature’s recycling system to put back nutrients into the garden ecosystem. Even though there's a lot of composting...