Living off the land is a dream many of us share. Homesteading is a catch-all term for the various aspects of turning this dream into a reality. In this blog category we share tips and tricks for everything from gardening to tool maintenance, splitting firewood, and growing mushrooms. Additionally, you’ll find some of our favorite books and resources here.
It’s that time of year when garden vegetables and weeds alike are growing inches overnight. If you’re like us, tomatoes are a darling in your garden, but it can be tricky to keep these wily vines in check. There are lots of ways to stake or trellis tomatoes and keep them contained. Here are […]
What are sweet potato slips? Sweet potato slips are the surprisingly diminutive tuber sprouts that grow into sprawling, productive sweet potato plants. Unlike potato potatoes (a.k.a. Irish taters or white potatoes, Solanum tuberosum), you don’t just cut up sweet potatoes (Ipomoea batatas) and plant them in the ground to grow more of them. Sweet […]
Learning as you go is one of the most rewarding things about growing a garden. Keeping a garden journal will help you do this. Whether you planted your first tomatoes this year or you’ve been tending a plot for 40 years, there are always new things to try and practices to improve upon. Gardening is […]
Spring is here and it’s time to get planting. There are many ways to fill your garden with verdant, fruitful beauty. Direct sowing is one of the simplest, lowest-input (and low budget) ways to grow vegetables. In the right circumstances, it has lots of advantages over growing or buying transplants. Plus there’s something timeless and […]
They’re delicious, healthful, beautiful and fascinating, so we’re going to teach you the basics of how to grow mushrooms. There are many kinds of mushrooms (over 10,000 known!) that live in all kinds of habitats, including wild mushrooms and cultivated ones. Here we’ll focus on general cultivation strategies for decomposers of wood, including shiitake, oyster, reishi, lion’s […]
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