Seeing groups of these beautiful butterflies seems like a thing of the past. As recently as 10 years ago I used to see up to a dozen Monarch butterflies flying across our pasture in late summer. Now, that seems a …
Tomatoes are probably the #1 crop grown by home gardeners in the USA. Even people who hardly garden will often grow one or two plants in a planter. People grow tomatoes with varying degrees of success. I’d like to suggest …
Ron Cook is one of our Homesteading Edu “subject matter experts.” He is knowledgeable about many things, including plant breeding, small animal husbandry, farming with draft animals and compost. Ron makes things grow so well with his compost, that some …
Native Seeds/Search Native Seeds/Search Have you ever been interested in growing Native American varieties of corn, beans, squash and other vegetables? You do know that all corn, all beans (as we commonly call them) and all squash are Native American …
Victory Seeds® is one of the better seed companies out there. There was a time when I used to be a seed catalog addict and could have spent way more time than I had, perusing seed catalogs. Over the years, somehow, the …
Sandhill Preservation Center is one of the most unique seed companies out there. This family run seed company finds its purpose and direction, completely in the word PRESERVATION! Visit Sandhill Preservation Center, Online Back in 1984 I was 25 years …
The Sample Seed Shop is a small, family owned seed company, run by Remy Orlowski, an avid gardener, herself. This is primarily an Internet based business. One can get to the home page by typing www.sampleseeds.com into the address bar …
Livestock guardian dogs are often misunderstood. Livestock guardian dogs (LGDs) are often misunderstood and sometimes mistreated. If you want the most amazing farm protector you need to understand how he/she is wired and then work with them. I took …
Auther Ray is a friend of mine, who I met on the Oklahoma Gardening Forum. He also belongs to Green Country Seed Savers and is a member of Homesteading Edu. You probably won’t ever see him in a video. Yet …
7 Tips for Fall Garden Clean Up Every fall, when frost kills the warm weather crops in our garden, I start thinking of garden clean up. Many new gardeners will wonder just exactly what should “fall garden clean up” entail? …