How To Grow Basil In Pots For Indoor Or Outdoor Harvests

How To Grow Basil In Pots For Indoor Or Outdoor Harvests

I love growing my basil in pots. I love growing basil everywhere! I have a bunch of plants growing in my raised garden beds and around my homestead. Their flowers are excellent for attracting native bees. Once they produce seeds, I broadcast…

How to Grow Watermelon From Seed to Juicy Fruit

How to Grow Watermelon From Seed to Juicy Fruit

Watermelons are one of the most delicious warm-weather crops for your food forest garden. Watermelons produce mouth-watering fruit, are tremendously sweet, and almost everyone loves eating them. We can show you how to grow watermelons from seed to harvest – and…

How To Grow Cherries From Seed: Propagation And Care Guide

How To Grow Cherries From Seed: Propagation And Care Guide

Cherry trees are one of the most delicious food forest fruits homesteaders can grow in North America. Cherry trees have other benefits, too. They deliver beautiful, fragrant flowers pollinators adore. Growing cherry trees from the seed is also surprisingly easy. We can…

How to Grow Strawberries From Seeds Or Runners

How to Grow Strawberries From Seeds Or Runners

Strawberries are one of our favorite annual food forest crops! They’re delicious, fragrant, easy-to-grow plants that produce some of the yummiest harvests. Growing strawberries from seed is also surprisingly easy – whether you live in the Southern USA, California, or even…

Farming Moss for a Homestead Income

Farming Moss for a Homestead Income

Mosses are primitive non-vascular plants known for their exotic texture and green hues. They have existed for 470 million years. Taken for granted for a long time, today, mosses are on the verge of becoming an urban homesteading sensation. You can blame…

29 Practical Tips to Become More Self-Sufficient

29 Practical Tips to Become More Self-Sufficient

What does self-sufficiency mean to you? For some homesteaders, self-sufficiency is growing and raising food. For others, it’s about getting their utilities off-grid or surviving without store-bought products. In these times of hyperinflation, supply-chain uncertainty, and questionable quality of many consumer products, learning how to become more…

16+ Inexpensive Gravel Driveway Edging Ideas | Easy Tidy DIY

16+ Inexpensive Gravel Driveway Edging Ideas | Easy Tidy DIY

Gravel will travel, as they say, in landscaping circles. And don’t you know it? Your gravel driveway can get messy and demand too much upkeep! But don’t stress. You can easily manage those rolling stones with these inexpensive gravel driveway edging ideas. The following thrifty…

How to Grow a Peach Tree From Seed In 6 Weeks

How to Grow a Peach Tree From Seed In 6 Weeks

Ready to turn a simple peach pit into a flourishing tree? You’re in the right place! In this comprehensive guide, you’ll learn how to grow a peach tree from seed, from pit preparation to planting and beyond. Plus, get insider…