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 …
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 …
Folks, This morning someone signed up as a user on Homesteading Edu and somehow figured out how to send emails to other users. Within 10 minutes of them doing so, I deleted their account. Please disregard any email you may …
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 …
Gardening and seed saving are like “peas and carrots.” I’m often puzzled about why there aren’t more seed savers in our gardening ranks. I’m not talking about anything extravagant. Why don’t more people save their own seed? Though there are …
Regionally adapted seeds are great. We live in a region with drastic shifts in temperature and precipitation. Whereas I grew up in a region where one could get accurate weather predictions for at least a week out, our weather is …
I have a favorite saying on the farm: “Sometimes the best chicken… is a duck.” There are several reasons I came up with this saying, and for why it tickles my funny bone. One of them is something I saw …
The mulberry can feed you really well, yet this tree is largely neglected, might I even say, despised by some, because it can be a bit messy. Mulberries are only messy because they are such huge producers of tasty berries. …
By Amy Lambert I am a sucker for unusual plants. I also love most international foods. Kitazawa Seed Company is a fun place to get mostly Asian seeds, although they have some standard varieties of “regular” fare. I’ve been on …