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Create a Custom Bath Salts Blend with This Master Recipe

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Create customized bath salts with therapuetic benefits by using this master bath salts recipes to guide your choices.  Don’t be stuck following a recipe designed for someone else’s needs.  Instead use the guidance of this master recipe and the ingredients you already have in your DIY cupboard to create a customized bath experience that will […]

Can I Feed Organic Sugar to Hummingbirds?

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Is organic sugar safe to feed to hummingbirds? The internet says “NO” but science has a different opinion. Get the facts and take a deep dive into the report that this urban myth is based on. Let’s agree that what is best for hummingbirds should dictate our choice. Is organic white sugar safe to feed […]

How to Grow Giant Sunflowers For Competition and Beauty

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By planting giant sunflowers you can grow a beautiful privacy screen in one season, create a child’s play house, grow a hedge, or achieve a world record.  These huge sunflower varieties grow up to a foot each week, once their roots are established.  Their flowers are huge too, and can be as big as a […]

Grow Sunflower Sprouts for Tasty and Nutritious Microgreens in Just 12 Days

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Sunflower sprouts and sunflower microgreens are an easy to grow and underutilized salad green that is fun to grow at home.  You can grow a crop from seed to harvest in as little as 12 to 14 days.  There is no need to add additional soil amendments when growing microgreens.  The nutrients required by the […]

Grow Rosa Rugosa Roses for Fragrance, Medicine, and Rose Hips Even in Zone 3

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Rosa rugosa or rugosa roses are hardy, vigorous roses for harsh climates. They have an extended bloom time and are prolific producers of hips for food and medicinal use. Many rugosa roses have heady rose fragrance and they are hardy in zone 3. Rugosas are the perfect homestead rose. Heady, hardy, vigorous Rosa rugosa Roses are […]

How to Grow Sunflowers for a Memorable Outdoor Wedding

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Grow sunflowers for special events on your homestead.  They are fast growing annuals that screen imperfections and look stunning in bouquets, center pieces, and as backdrops to wedding photos.  The key to success is choosing the right sunflower variety for your purpose. Sarah is getting married in August and has asked for a homegrown sunflower […]

15 Medicinal Herbs for Chickens to Keep Them Healthy and Pestfree

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Grow these 15 herbs for chickens near the chicken coop. They will improve immunity, keep them parasite free, reduce their stress, and prevent boredom. Healthy, happy chickens lay more eggs. Growing herbs is a simple and economical way to keep your backyard flock healthy and productive. Benefits of Growing Herbs for Chickens Herbs are easy […]

5 Bee Friendly Perennials for Your Zone 3 Garden for Better Biodiversity

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Adding bee friendly perennials will make your organic garden more hospitable to both native pollinators and honey bees and ensure that you can continue to harvest fruit and vegetables that need pollination over a long season.  The key is to provide bee fodder throughout the growing season using perennials.  From early in the spring, when […]

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