Are you wasting hours on your knees thinning seedlings when you could be harvesting clusters of beets instead? Most gardeners are taught to sow beets in rows and then pull ...
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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...
Did you know your kitchen waste is the secret to growing 100lb pumpkins? Most gardeners toss their kitchen scraps and old vines into the bin. The pros turn that ‘waste’ ...
You think you hate radicchio because you have only ever tasted the grocery store version. Stop buying bitter greens! True radicchio needs the kiss of winter frost to unlock its ...
Why break your back when a single layer of straw does the work for you? Gardening shouldn’t feel like a chore. Switching from manual weeding to a strategic mulching system ...
Stop waiting 21 days for seeds that might never even wake up. Parsnip seeds are notoriously fickle and have a short shelf life. If you just ‘scatter and pray,’ you’re ...
Most gardeners leave their soil naked all winter, but the secret to spring success is hiding in a packet of mustard seeds. Your garden’s biggest enemy isn’t the frost—it’s exposure. ...
Why back-breaking thinning is actually the slowest way to grow a kohlrabi harvest. If you are spending hours on your knees pulling out extra seedlings, you are doing it the ...
Your kale isn’t bad at growing—it’s just starving in a biological desert. Stop pouring chemicals onto your kale. When you build a living ecosystem in your garden bed with microbes ...
Are you spending hours doing a job that the bees would do for free in seconds? We spent years trying to hand-pollinate every single blossom. Then we realized the ‘Strategic’ ...
Once you taste the complex oils of a homegrown hardneck bulb, you’ll realize the supermarket has been selling you cardboard for years. That bleached white garlic in the grocery store ...