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Clever Ways to Feed Chickens
Joan shares some ideas on feeding chickens: Iโve kept Rhode island reds a couple of different times over my lifetime…
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The “Hens Not Laying Conspiracy”
Many reports have been coming in from chicken owners that their hens quit laying recently, or that their chickens stopped…
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Seed Hoarding Curtailed Through Landrace Gardening
In my latest video, I share how we’re starting transplants from a wide range of plant genetics, landrace gardening style:…
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Using Leaf Duff in the Garden: Video and Article
Harvesting leaf duff (leaf mould) from the woods is a great way to increase the organic matter and mineral content…
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Potato Planting Time in Lower Alabama!
It’s time to plant potatoes again. Our previous potato patches were less than satisfactory. Though we reaped more than we…
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The Original Kitchen Garden Was Too Much Trouble
We were planting a kitchen garden, piece by piece, and using broken pieces of cement and bricks to make paths.…
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Garden Tip: Don’t Go Too Big
I need to learn to take my own advice. Or, at least take Noah Sanders’ advice: “One year I wanted…
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Saturday Book Reviews: A Soil Owner’s Manual, Comeback Farms and Dirt to Soil
Today we continue our book reviews, as I run through the 2022 reading list. A Soil Owner’s Manualย by Jon Stika…
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60″ Corn Row Spacing
Does planting corn at 60″ – double its “normal” spacing – make sense? When Bob Recker turned off every other…
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The Piggy Playground and Piglets on the Homestead
We visited our friends Erick and Collette at their farm a couple of weeks ago to pick up a couple…
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Easy Worm Composting with the Bathtub Worm Bin!
I’m back in the garden again, after a couple of week’s hiatus from YouTube: This bathtub worm bin has really…
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Head-Training Grape Vines, Goblet-Style
A while back I posted on head-training grape vines. Last week I received a comment from Laura, who writes: Sorry…






