The Ultimate Guide to Composting in Your Suburban Backyard
Learn how to create a thriving composting system right in your suburban backyard and discover the benefits it can bring to your garden.
Road to Self-Sufficiency: How to Start Your Journey
Discover the benefits and challenges on the road to self-sufficiency and how to overcome them to live a more sustainable lifestyle.
How to Learn 58 Self-Sufficient Skills Right Now
Discover how to learn self-sufficient skills that you can do right now because self-sufficiency is the best gift you can give yourself.
Powerful Health Benefits of Spearmint and Its Effects
The health benefits of spearmint are so powerful for the body, mind, and spirit, and have been used for centuries. There are numerous benefits of spearmint. For one, the aroma of spearmint is fantastic! Spearmint can be used in many homemade healthcare recipes like mouthwash, toothpaste, essential oils, bath soaps, and body creams. Stick around to discover more about the health and spiritual benefits of spearmint. CLICK TO READ MORE.
How to Attract Pollinators to Improve Your Garden Harvest
The foods that we grow rely on pollinators in order to set the fruits and vegetables on the plants for us to eat. Since the past few years, our pollinators have been disappearing and our gardens are hurting. I have many friends posting images of their plants dying off and flowers falling to the ground due to a lack of pollination. While we have the ability to hand pollinate our gardens, we also have the power to attract pollinators to our gardens and help them feel welcome and make homes in the habitats we can provide for them. You don’t need an unkept lawn to attract pollinators, though you can do some simple things in your garden to help pollinators thrive. Let’s dive into how we can attract some daytime and nighttime pollinators to your garden so your garden is pollinated by both day and night shift workers in the garden. CLICK TO READ MORE.
Powerful Health Benefits of Holy Basil and Its Effects
Discover the powerful health benefits of holy basil and its effects on your brain and body and how to grow and use it.
Why You Need to Start Micro-Orcharding in Your Backyard
Learn how and why micro-orcharding in your backyard can massively increase your home-grown food production in smaller spaces.
How to Grow a Productive Perennial Strawberry Patch
Learn valuable insights and practical tips to help you grow a strawberry patch that will bring joy and abundance to your home garden.
How to Design a Cottage Garden: Growing a Beautiful Mess
Cottage gardens are informal, fun, whimsical, colorful, beautiful, and practical. They are filled with native flowers, vegetables, herbs, bulbs, annuals, perennials, shrubs, and climbers. They provide dimension and structure to garden spaces and a safe haven for local pollinators. The best part is that cottage gardens are very much alive and they change year after year on their own if you allow them to do their own thing. With a few bulbs, seeds, and patience, you can design a cottage garden that will fill out your garden spaces naturally and beautifully. CLICK TO READ MORE.
How to Grow and Care for Roses
Rose bushes bring delight to the garden from their gorgeous spring blooms to the bountiful hips that follow in the fall season. You can be sure to be given a huge harvest from your rose bush so be prepared to learn how to preserve the rose petals if that’s your fancy! Learn how to grow, care for, harvest, and propagate rose bushes. CLICK TO READ MORE.