Practical Gardening Tips and Tricks for Every Homestead

Make your garden thrive with practical advice and innovative techniques. Explore planting tips, pest control ideas, and space-saving strategies.

A calico cat resting inside a garden protected by a row cover.

Grow a Thriving Backyard Garden with Practical Tips

Cold Climate Gardening Tips for Maine’s Short Growing Season

A monarch butterfly resting on pink swamp milkweed flowers in a sunlit garden.

Grow a Thriving Backyard Garden with Practical Tips

How to Grow Monarch Butterflies with a Homestead Garden

A row of potted indoor plants basking in natural sunlight on a windowsill, featuring vibrant green herbs and succulents.

Grow a Thriving Backyard Garden with Practical Tips

Indoor Gardening Benefits: 10 Reasons to Grow Plants Indoors

An herbal spiral made from rocks and filled with fresh herbs.

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How to Choose the Ideal Location for Your Herbal Spiral Garden

A closeup of green beans in the garden.

Grow a Thriving Backyard Garden with Practical Tips · Wholesome Recipes and Real Food Inspiration

How to Harvest Green Beans & How to Preserve Them

Jalapeno peppers in the garden.

Grow a Thriving Backyard Garden with Practical Tips · Wholesome Recipes and Real Food Inspiration

How to Preserve Hot Peppers & Harvest for the Best Flavor

Picking a large heirloom tomato off the vine.

Grow a Thriving Backyard Garden with Practical Tips · Wholesome Recipes and Real Food Inspiration

When to Harvest Tomatoes & Preserve Them Like a Pro

A brown tail moth nest covered with caterpillars.

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Conquer the Brown Tail Moth: Tips to Combat Invasive Species

A basket of homegrown food.

Grow a Thriving Backyard Garden with Practical Tips

An Unexpected Use for SNAP: Buy Seeds with Food Stamps

Me modeling my handmade harvest apron from scrap fabric I had on hand.

Grow a Thriving Backyard Garden with Practical Tips · Simple and Sustainable Homestead Living Tips

How Easily to Make a Harvest Apron or Gathering Apron

Sage: A Culinary & Medicinal Herb [+ Thanksgiving Stuffing Recipe]

Grow a Thriving Backyard Garden with Practical Tips

Sage: A Culinary & Medicinal Herb [+ Thanksgiving Stuffing Recipe]

A variety of garden tools hung up in a greenhouse.

Grow a Thriving Backyard Garden with Practical Tips

Must-Have Garden Tools for a Thriving Garden This Season

A compost bin with food scraps falling out of it with a teal background.

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Composting for Beginners: The Ultimate Starter Guide

A rain barrel connected to a downspout collecting water in a lush garden, surrounded by colorful flowers and greenery.

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24 Practical Water Conservation Tips for Your Homestead

Anyone can plant pretty flowers, but it takes time and effort to maintain a garden and keep it looking beautiful day after day.

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How to Keep Your Garden Looking Great

Slicing tomatoes growing on the vine in my garden.

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10 Tips for Growing Lush, Bountiful Tomato Plants

Gardeners and farmers have hard-working hands that need TLC. This homemade hand cream helps moisturize and soothe rough, achy hands.

Simple and Sustainable Homestead Living Tips

Soothing & Healing Hand Cream for Farmers/Gardeners

Hyssop: Why You Need to Make Some Space for This Herb

Grow a Thriving Backyard Garden with Practical Tips

Hyssop: Why You Need to Make Some Space for This Herb

Gardening supplies laid out on a wooden table.

Grow a Thriving Backyard Garden with Practical Tips

20 Gardening Hacks That Will Save You Time and Effort

A wooden crate filled with fresh red and green apples, ideal for winter storage.

Grow a Thriving Backyard Garden with Practical Tips

Winter Food Storage: Keep Produce Fresh Through the Cold Months

Bright yellow marigold flowers growing in a decorative pot.

Simple and Sustainable Homestead Living Tips

Natural Insect Repellents for Your Homestead

A honeybee pollinating light purple daisies with yellow centers in a wildflower meadow.

Grow a Thriving Backyard Garden with Practical Tips

Grow a Bee-Friendly Wildflower Meadow on Your Homestead

Close-up of a metal spile inserted into a tree with sap dripping from the tap.

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Trees You Can Tap for Syrup Beyond Sugar Maples

Move a portion of your garden south. How? you might ask. It is simple, with a greenhouse! You just need to find your correct greenhouse for your goals.

Grow a Thriving Backyard Garden with Practical Tips

Move a Portion of Your Garden South

A polytunnel set up in a backyard garden.

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How to Extend Your Growing Season with a Polytunnel

Marigolds flowers are more than just a pretty flower. They are miracle flowers. After reading this, you'll never look at a marigold flower the same way.

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Miracle Marigold Flowers

Broccoli is a vegetable that I find incredibly difficult to harvest. It's not actually the harvesting part that is difficult, it's the timing that's hard.

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When to Harvest Broccoli

Many people wonder when and how to prune their tomatoes. What are tomato suckers? How do you remove them? When shouldn't you remove tomato suckers?

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Should You Remove Tomato Suckers