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Best Perennial Fruit Plants For Harvesting Through the Seasons
Cultivate an edible landscape and enjoy fresh fruit throughout the growing season. -
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Plant an Edible Forest Garden
Plant an edible forest garden by learning how to mimic a natural forest to create a productive fusion of garden, orchard, and woodland. -
![Quiz: Food Preservation Master]()
Quiz: Food Preservation Master
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How to Build a Natural Swimming Pool By Douglas Buege And Vicky Uhland -
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Old Fashioned Chokecherry Jelly Recipe
Learn how to juice chokecherries by following this old fashioned choke cherry jelly recipe using this tart, native North American fruit. -
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An Effective and Non-Toxic Solution for Getting Rid of Yellow Jackets Nests
Learn gardening practices that will grow ten times more poundage off the same plot of organically-rich ground. -
![5 Tools For Clearing Overgrown Land]()
5 Tools For Clearing Overgrown Land
Clearing overgrown land can be a daunting task. Choose the right tool for the job and it can be a breeze! Here are 5 of my favorites that make clearing overgrown land satisfying and fun!
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Organic Gardening Articles
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Passive-Solar Winter Wisconsin Greenhouse
Build this passive-solar winter Wisconsin greenhouse with deep winter greenhouse plans to keep plants warm using thermal mass. -
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Succession Planting: Carrots and Lettuce
Want lettuce and carrots all year round? Ira Wallace tells us her simple method for keeping track of succession planting carrots and lettuce. -
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Kitchen Herb Garden Plans
Follow these kitchen herb garden plans for a 12-square-foot area to grow kitchen herb garden plants in the space nearest your kitchen door. -
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What are Capers?
What are capers, and where do capers come from? Learn what capers are used for, what capers taste like, and the caper bush growing zones.
Real Food Recipes & Articles
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![Quiz: Food Preservation Master]()
Quiz: Food Preservation Master
Whether you’re a seasoned homesteader with a cellar full of mason jars or a backyard gardener eager to stop throwing away extra produce, mastering food preservation is the key to self-reliance and flavor year-round. But between acid levels, proper headspaces, and temperature thresholds, the science matters. Test your grasp on canning safety, fermentation microbes, dehydration […] -
![Salt-Cured Egg Yolk Recipe]()
Salt-Cured Egg Yolk Recipe
Make salt-cured eggs in your home fridge. This salt-cured egg yolk recipe is a deliciously simple way to preserve your farm-fresh yolks for up to six months. -
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Best Non-Perishable Food for Emergency
Pick the best non-perishable food for emergency with this list of shelf-stable foods for use in the event of a natural disaster or power outage. -
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Preserved Fruit: Rumtopf Recipe
To preserve fruit in alcohol, try this rumtopf recipe. Filling your own rumtopf jar is easy and makes a treat out of your summer fruit that you can enjoy all year long.
Home & Gardening DIY Blogs & Ideas
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How to Filter Water Using Charcoal, Sand, and Gravel
Learn how to filter water using charcoal, sand, and gravel using a water bottle and cloth filters to keep these layers separated and water flowing through them. -
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Important Papers to Keep in Case of Emergency
Use this comprehensive checklist of important papers to keep in case of emergency on hand in a binder, ready to go at a drop of a hat. -
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How to Build an Easy Root Cellar with SIPs
Put up the summer's extra harvest in this easy root cellar. Learn how to build a root cellar above ground with structurally insulated panels (SIPs) for quick construction. -
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Add a Hand Pump to an Electric Well
Avoid power-outage droughts by learning how to add a hand pump to an electric well to be able to access water even when the power is out.
Podcasts
Large-scale Food and the Cyclospora Outbreak
Sarah Mock: I've heard a lot of small farmers say that to some extent if you know that your produce came from a farmers' market directly from a farm then you know where it came from, and we know that this current outbreak is affecting people in 35 states.
[00:00:11] This has to be from someone who's doing like large scale distribution. So you're probably less likely to get affected by this specific disease if you're, dealing with someone locally. That doesn't mean you're not likely to get ...
Maiv Flower Farm Audio Article and Discussion
Grow a Modern Victory Garden
Sourcing an E-bike
Preventing Poultry Predation from Domestic Canines and Felines
Growing a Cut Flower Garden
Increase Egg Production Naturally
Arboreal Flavors: Can You Eat Tree Leaves? Audio Article
Spring Beehive Inspection
