Propagated comfrey

Easy Comfrey Propogation

Propagating comfrey is fast and easy! Comfrey is considered by many to be one of the essential permaculture/homestead plants.  It has so many uses on…

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Regenerating Soil Using Cover Crops & No-Till w/ Gabe Brown (Mercola Interview)

Our soil health is the key to creating the best, most nutritious food possible.  Conventional farming methods have decimated our soils in this country, and…

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Weeds: What They Tell Us and Why You Should Care!

For many a homesteader or gardener weeds can be a major topic of conversation.  They should be, but maybe not for the reasons you think!…

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Homestead Health: Borax for Health? Part 3 of 3

Here’s the last bit of this monster article that I dug up for you guys. I hope you find it as thought provoking as I…

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Homestead Health: Borax for Health? Part 2 of 3

Part 2….. “Fungi and Fluoride Being such an excellent fungicide it is not surprising that borax is being successfully used to treat Candida. There is…

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Top 5 Things to Plant Now for Fall/Winter Harvest

I know that in the heat of the summer a lot of people have other things on their minds than the cold,wet, and dreary days…

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No-Till Didn’t Work…Sort of!

Why no till didn’t work for us in our gardens and this is how we fixed it! No till is not a panacea and context…

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Seed Saving on the Homestead

Homestead Seed Saving The knowledge and ability to save your own seeds from one season to the next is one of those homesteader skills that…

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Homesteader’s Resource Library….

Trees Crops a Permanent Agriculture by J. Russel Smith For those in the know you know that J. Russel Smith was a visionary before his…

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Ruth Stout Garden Bed

Creating Ruth Stout style garden bed

Fast, Easy, Low Labor Garden Bed, Inspired by Ruth Stout I wrote previously in my post on deep mulch about Ruth Stout, and her gardening…

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