If you want optimal growth this year, make sure you get a good cucumber plant fertilizer! Cucumbers are a quintessential fruit for your vegetable garden, and the plants often produce large harvests. If you want to ensure your plants produce plenty of cucumbers – who doesn’t? – you’ll need to make sure you use the…
If you want a sustainable flock, you need one of the best broody hen breeds. For commercial chicken farmers or the average backyard chicken keeper, a broody hen is annoying. However, if you want a sustainable chicken flock, you need a few of the best broody hen breeds. Broody hens hatch and raise clutches of…
Listening to homesteading podcasts is one of the best ways to learn more while you’re busy! I love podcasts, and I don’t hide that love. Nearly every day, you’ll catch me listening to one or two, ranging in topics from gardening and crime to homeschooling and news. I also have plenty of homesteading podcasts on…
If you want to make money homesteading, one of the first things you should do is figure out how to make money with chickens. Once you start raising chickens, it’s natural to consider how you can make money with chickens. You spend a lot of time creating their home and taking care of them, so…
If you’re looking for other ways to preserve your fresh strawberries, making dehydrated strawberries is a delicious and easy snack to make for your family. Having a dehydrator is a fantastic investment for your family; you can dehydrate almost any type of food. I love dehydrating strawberries when they’re in season – you’ll find that…
Are you wondering if it’s safe to use coffee grounds in your garden? You have to know how to use them properly! When I began gardening, I had NO idea there would be controversy over different topics, and whether or not you should put coffee grounds in garden beds is a BIG one. Some gardeners…
Don’t let all of those mulberries on your tree go to waste. Try some of these different mulberry recipes this year! Until I married my husband, I had never heard of mulberries or tried them. He grew up with the trees in his backyard – which is now our backyard – and his mother always…
In USDA zones four to six, May is prime gardening season when you plant many things. Here is what to plant in May. I live in zone 6, and May is our prime planting season. This is the time when most of the weather transitions to pleasantly warm. If you live in these zones, you…
If you’re brand new to canning, you’ll want to try some easy canning recipes for beginners that you will definitely use in your pantry. I remembered when I wanted to start canning, I felt SO intimidated. It seemed quite scary, and I didn’t want to do it wrong. So, I searched out some easy canning…
Do your tomato seedlings have purple stems? It’s not a death sentence, but you should know why! I walked into my shed – a makeshift greenhouse – and realized my tomato seedlings had purple stems and purple leaves. They were fine the day before, so what causes seedlings to turn purple? Talk about disappointing. You…
