Planning and planting a homestead orchard is one way to increase your self-sufficiency and expand your homestead. When we bought our new-to-us home last year, I knew that one of our 2021 goals would be to work on our homestead orchard. In our previous home, we didn’t have space to grow as many fruit trees…
Growing bare root strawberries is easy and an economical way to establish a strawberry bed in your garden. We moved last year, and we left behind our strawberry patch that we planted seven years prior. I never planted strawberries last year because moving takes a lot of time, but this year, I put planting bare…
Planning and picking the right fruit trees for a homestead orchard is a great way to grow more food with less work! Our family has a simple yet complex goal for our homestead – we want to grow as much food for our family as possible. That tends to be the goal for most homesteaders,…
