How and why chitting or sprouting seed potatoes is essential before you plant them (hint: you’ll get a faster harvest and bigger yields, which sound like pretty good reasons to me!) Spring is almost here! There’s only one more month to go until it’s meteorological spring, and for many gardeners it will be game on! […]
10 Ways To Find Balance On The Homestead
Balancing life on the homestead is not easy, but it doesn’t have to be impossible. I’ll be the first to admit that I have struggled with balance almost my entire adult life. Once our family started to grow and we started to live out the lifestyle that our grandparents had taught us, the task of […]
How to Plant Onion Seedlings
This article will teach you how to plant onion seedlings for a healthy robust onion harvest in late summer. To learn how to grow your own onion seedlings, please see my How to Plant Onion Seed article from my Seed Starting 101 Series. In that article I discuss the pros and cons of planting onions […]
Planning For Spring On The Homestead
Spring is right around the corner! It is time to start garden planning, seed starting, and deciding what major projects are going to get worked on this year. Although the temps have plummeted lately, it is never too early to begin the planning process. We’ve had temps in the 60s the last few days here […]
5 Preparedness Skills Every Woman Should Know
When we hear the word “survival”, it seems most of us think of things like starting fires, building shelters, hunting, fishing, searching for water and other basic survival skills. Although those things are essential to our survival, there are other areas that we need to take into consideration that is just as important. Every woman […]
How to Store Onions from the Garden through the Winter
Do you grow enough onions to keep your family in fresh home grown onions all winter long? In this article, I will go over choosing the correct onion varieties to grow, and how to properly store them to keep them for fresh eating until the end of winter/early spring. As a homesteader and gardener, my […]
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