Considering the recent boom in demand for laying hens, hatching under a hen may gain more attention than it has enjoyed for some time. Chicks have been scarce and a lot of new people have gained an interest in raising …
Most gardeners will use some kind of potting mix in the course of the year, whether it be for starting transplants, growing potted plants or container gardening. Every now and then I need a reminder to avoid cheap potting mix. …
Do you like to garden? Do you have children in your life? How do these two fit together for you? Gardening with kids can be a challenge, and more so for the most avid of gardeners. Many years ago I …
In this day and age of gardening, the term “heirloom” is very popular. There is some confusion as to, exactly what an heirloom is, and perhaps just as much confusion as to why heirlooms are valuable. There are several reasons …
In homesteading there are “those moments,” which come along, just because of what we do. Some are not happy moments, such as when a goat kicks over a milk pail, covering the one milking in milk, or when we lose …
If you have gardened for long, you have wanted to store seed for longer periods of time than what can normally be done by sticking the envelopes in a drawer. Perhaps you have purchased more seed than you need. Maybe …
Most gardeners end up with boxes of unused garden seed. Sometimes they are leftover from previous years and sometimes they were given to them. I’ve dealt with old seed from both scenarios. Years ago my wife’s grandparents gave me the …
Do you know how to convert yeast recipes to sourdough? It’s not very hard to do. In fact, I’d highly recommend trying it. Why would I want to take a yeast recipe and convert to it sourdough? Here are a …
For most of my life I’ve seen seed catalogs praise stringless beans. Then, as a young adult, I discovered old fashioned string beans and fell in love with them. At first we didn’t understand what we had, and processed them …
Survival seed vaults remind me of the electric socks my mom picked up for me when I was a teen getting ready to go on a winter camping trip. The socks did indeed heat but they were very large, very …