Grow Your Own Food. We can help you start.
Grow Your Own Food. We can help you start.
Go back to basics—compost, raising chickens, water and irrigation, dealing with pests, and much more—with this unique, full color bestseller (over 400,000 sold).
Mini Farming: Self Sufficiency on 1/4 Acre Read More »
Landrace gardening is adapting crops to your land and climate, and then saving seeds, while also selecting for the best flavor, color, and pest and disease resistance.
Landrace Gardening: Food Security through Biodiversity and Promiscuous Pollination Read More »
It is still March. The last frost in NE Kansas is still over a month away. It is encouraging to see the perennials – walking onions, bloody dock sorrel, and plantain already prominent and harvestable in modest amounts. I plucked some Narrow Leaf plantain (perennial) and some mustard that overwintered and fed them to my chickens. These pictures are from late April last year. The perennials are going full speed. I planted annual Black Seeded Simpson lettuce between them and had cut and come again lettuce throughout the Spring. Last year I converted some of my garden, the peripheral parts, into perennials, with annuals in the middle. The Benefits of Adding Perennials to Your Garden Regular greens in my garden bolt quickly when it gets hot in early summer. Perennial Garden Beds More info on how I am using Milpa gardening to start new beds, cover crop with produce in the first year. I used my Meadow Creature broadfork to turn over grass, spread Milpa seed, covered with a layer of wood chips. It leaves a natural mulch and builds soil.
Interplanting Perennials with Annuals in the Garden Read More »
Surely you have heard horror stories of how much goes into growing the lowly tomato plant. Infrastructure, fertilizer, seed. What you are, reportedly, left with is an equivalent of a $64 tomato, when duly amortized. No. Just grow.
The Myth of the $64 Tomato Read More »
Turn a corner of your garden into Hassle-Free Permaculture Perennial Production
How I created an Apple Guild – Permaculture Read More »
Take a walk in the forest. If you look at the “edge” of the woods, you will see multiple layers growing naturally together – nuts, fruit, shrubs, herbs. A food forest mimics the edge of the woods from Nature.
Plant a Food Forest that Mimics the Edge of the Forest in Nature Read More »
Grow elderberry from cuttings – starting in water, starting sideways in a bed of sand, or poking a stick straight into the ground
How to Grow Elderberry from Cuttings Read More »
What can you do with wild persimmons? You can make jelly/jam with the fruit. The persimmon tree is also a good source of food for wildlife.
How to Save, Store, and Stratify Persimmon Seeds Read More »
Meadow Creature Broadfork is THE perfect way to turn over sod, loosen and break up the soil.
Meadow Creature Broadfork 14″ – All Steel Read More »
