Is your berry patch a graveyard of old wood or a high-speed engine for fruit production? If you treat your raspberries like a static hedge, you’re growing wood, not food. ...
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CASE STUDY: We've been living off the grid for the last 40 years...
In all that time an electric wire has never been connected to our house. We haven’t gotten or paid an electricity bill in over 40 years, but we have all the electricity we want. We grow everything we need, here, in our small backyard. We also have a small medicinal garden for tough times. Read More Here...
Your dragon fruit can live for 30 years, but will your trellis survive the first three? Dragon fruit vines can weigh hundreds of pounds at maturity. That cheap wooden post ...
Did you know 60 percent of the vitamin density in a currant bush isn’t even in the berries? We have been trained to harvest the berries and dump the rest, ...
Your cherry tree is starving for friends, not just fertilizer. A fruit tree in a lawn is a tree in a desert. It relies entirely on you for water, food, ...
You don’t need a multi-million dollar irrigation system to harvest fresh cranberries in your backyard. Commercial cranberry farming makes it look like an impossible engineering feat, but these hardy little ...
If your pomegranate tree looks like a perfect green box, you have accidentally pruned away your entire harvest. Modern gardening prioritizes neatness, but the ancients knew the secret was light. ...
Most people see a sticky lawn chore, but the master gardener sees a high-potency potassium battery. That ‘mess’ under your plum tree is actually a concentrated source of potassium and ...
You are currently throwing away a $100 future harvest every single time you prep a fruit salad. Every time you toss a pineapple crown in the trash, you’re throwing away ...
Are you buying a plant, or a dependent on life support? Most nursery-bought strawberries are raised in a sterile bubble of liquid chemicals and peat. The moment they hit your ...
Are you paying the electric company to do what a well-placed tree can do for free? Most indoor growers think they need 24/7 grow lights and industrial humidifiers to get ...