Extend Your Season With an Old Fashioned “Hotbed” Whether you live in zones 1 to 3 or you are in the mountains, where the growing season is challenging, a natural hotbed will extend your season. Read ... Read More about How to Make a Hotbed
Superfruit for zone 3? Haskaps! Haskaps aka Honeysuckle or Honeyberries has more antioxidants than blueberries and more potassium. Read more to learn how to grow your own haskaps, a superfood - even ... Read More about How to Grow Haskaps
Hugelkultur is a method of making a garden bed using waste wood and available nitrogen, that preserves those nutrients and gives them up to growing plants over several seasons. Like compost, a ... Read More about An improved hugelkultur bed for older homesteaders
Contact Dyeing Eco-Prints with Woad and Weeds Contact Dyeing Eco-Prints is the art of natural dyeing. This technique for direct contact dyeing uses woad leaves, flowers, seeds, and whatever other ... Read More about Contact Dyeing Eco-Prints
Gardening with natural dye plants? Find inspiration here. A Garden to Dye For, this beautiful book is the inspiration to try to get colour from a few plants that I’m already growing in my garden. ... Read More about A Garden to Dye For
9 Tips for Strategic Time Management on Your Homestead I'd like to help you feel more contented in your homestead lifestyle and to manage the hours that you have in your day. Here are 9 tips for time ... Read More about 9 Tips for Time Management on Your Homestead
