Gardening is one the most universal ways of growing your own food. Even if you live in an apartment you can still grow some of your own fresh foods. Here are some ideas to help you get started:
Growing Apple Trees On The Urban Homestead
Apple trees are a delicious addition to your backyard orchard, but they can be a bit fussy to grow. Here ...
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Can You Grow A Year’s Supply Of Food?
Most of us who love a self-sufficiency lifestyle would love to be able to grow all our own food ourselves ...
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How To Start A Beauty Garden: 23 Plants To Grow For Homemade Beauty Products
Have you ever considered growing a beauty garden? There are many herbs and flowers that can be used for your ...
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How To Have Chickens AND A Garden
Having your chickens free range in the garden SOUNDS lovely. They can eat weeds and obnoxious bugs, all while leaving ...
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How To Grow A Butterfly Garden
One great thing to incorporate into your backyard or patio is a butterfly garden. You don't need a lot of ...
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Bug Bite Prevention and Remedies (Or How To Survive Mosquitoes!)
There are a few things that can really make your backyard an unpleasant place to be, and one of those ...
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13 Problems Gardening And How To Overcome Them
It would be totally awesome if gardening came easily to all of us. Unfortunately, having problems gardening is pretty common ...
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Peach Fruit Tree Tips For Backyard Orchards
Peaches are a delicious and easy fruit to grow in your backyard orchard. They don't need a lot of care, ...
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The Easiest Plants To Grow For A Children’s Garden
Letting your children or grandchildren help in the garden can be a wonderful experience. Making a space for a children's ...
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How To Overcome The Most Common Challenges To Starting A Fruit Tree Guild
There are many great reasons to plant a fruit tree guild. What is the biggest thing stopping you from planting ...
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5 Ways To Have a Healthy Garden This Spring (And All Year!)
If you are anything like me, having a healthy garden is a dream every spring. THIS will be the year ...
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16 Great Ground Covers For Your Fruit Tree Guild
Adding ground covers to your fruit tree guild is a great idea. While you can add mulch into your food ...
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The Most Popular Plants For Fruit Tree Guilds
When you are planning out a fruit tree guild you can use any plants you want, but there are some ...
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44 Insectiary Plants For Your Fruit Tree Guild
A vital part of a healthy garden is the insect population. While insects get a bad reputation, many of them ...
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Best Plants To Chop and Drop In Your Fruit Tree Guild
One of the critical aspects of growing a fruit tree guild is that you grow your compost and fertilizer alongside ...
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Vines You Should Grow in Your Fruit Tree Guild
After your get your trees planted it's time to start adding other layers in your food forest. The vine layer ...
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55 Trees That Are Great For Fruit Tree Guilds
The central part of fruit tree guilds is the fruit tree! You don't actually need a fruit tree for a ...
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These Are The Best Plants To Suppress Grass Around Fruit Trees
If you want to have the best producing fruit trees, it's important to keep competing plants away from your backyard ...
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What Are The Best Nitrogen Fixers?
Nitrogen fixers are an important part of fruit tree guilds. These plants can also really help out your garden and ...
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Here’s Why Our Cities Need More Urban Permaculture
One of the things I loved about living in Portland, Oregon for over ten years is how popular urban permaculture ...
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17 Dynamic Accumulators You Need In Your Food Forest
Dynamic accumulators are a popular idea in permaculture. It refers to plants that have deep roots that gather minerals. This ...
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How To Start A Fruit Tree Guild
Instead of planting an orchard, start your food forest by planting a fruit tree guild! A fruit tree guild is ...
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8 Ways to Decorate with Houseplants
Did you know that having a few houseplants in your living space can help improve concentration, enhance productivity, and boost ...
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Everything You Need To Know About Yarrow
Yarrow is one of those superstar plants that does pretty much everything well. Plus, it's easy to grow, which makes ...
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Fall Container Gardens That Will Spice Up Your Space
Spring and summer contain a bounty of beautiful and useful plants. How can you keep that green, lush look going ...
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Do You HAVE To Kill Wasps?
I was on my patio when I noticed several large wasp nests on the center beam and quite a few ...
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How NOT to Compost: 16 Ways To Screw It Up
I started my first compost bin in 2008 and I was so jazzed up and excited about it. I was ...
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How To Make The Best Of A Small Garden
Just because you have a small garden space doesn't mean you can't use it in a big way. There are ...
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21 Drought Tolerant Plants For Edible Landscaping
Even if you live in a dry area you can still grow drought tolerant plants that have multiple purposes and ...
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When To Plant Potatoes In Your Area
Potatoes are one of those great crops that can be grown many different ways, and are pretty easy to grow. ...
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Pruning Peach Trees For The Largest Harvest
Do you have a peach tree that only fruits every other year? Or maybe it only gets fruit on the ...
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Growing Garlic For a Year’s Supply Is Practical
We all dream of a thriving garden that produces enough food for us to live off our own land each ...
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Lemon Tree Care Is Super Simple For You
Lemon tree care is pretty easy. If you're lucky enough to live in an area warm enough to grow citrus, ...
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How To Plant Fruit Trees
Planting fruit trees is one of the best things you can do on your homestead. They take minimal care once ...
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Easy Landscaping Ideas For Concealed Food In The City
Growing all your food is a great goal to strive for, but what do you do when you only have ...
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How To Learn How To Wildcraft
There are an abundance of lovely and useful plants that we can plant in our yards and gardens. And there ...
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How To Grow Blackberries Without a Hostile Takeover
In my opinion, the best plants are the ones where you stick them in the ground once and they come ...
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How To Grow Raspberries For a Killer Harvest
Ever wondered what are the best plants to start with if you are a new gardener? Well, there are some ...
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How To Grow Food Even When You Have Poor Soil
Gardening is easy when you start out with a great soil filled with organic matter and tasty nutrients your plants ...
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The Greatest Things About Growing Strawberries
Hardly a spring goes by when I'm not tempted to buy plants. It's not a bad temptation, but I could ...
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5 Useful Kitchen Compost Bin Tips That Will Keep Things Tidy
Whether you compost in your own yard or use the city curbside compost pick up, you'll need a good way ...
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Here’s How To Use Rainwater In Your Garden
Gardening doesn't have to be complicated, but there are a few things that you have to have to make it ...
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Excellent Spring Garden Vegetables For Small Spaces
When planning your spring garden, you may be wondering which vegetables will work best for a very small garden. If ...
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38 Edible and Useful Plants To Grow In A Shade Garden
One of the trickiest things about growing your own food is sometimes the space you haven't isn't ideal. One scenario ...
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Here’s How To Discourage Fire Ants In Your Garden
After moving from Portland, Oregon to San Antonio, Texas, we had a nice little surprise. And when I say nice, ...
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15 Reliable And Edible Plants For The Forgetful Gardener
I've always been slightly (okay, a LOT) envious of those people who seem to have a green thumb. All they ...
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Easy Ways To Get Started On a Great Spring Garden
Garden season is RIGHT around the corner, and I know I'm itching to get started on this year's garden. Unfortunately, ...
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Beautiful Front Yard Gardens Save You Time And Money
Did you know that it doesn't take much space to grow a hearty amount of your own food? You don't ...
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How To Put Your Garden To Bed In The Fall
Colder weather means it's time to put your garden to bed. As you harvest the last of your gardens it's ...
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Is Fancy Equipment Needed on a Homestead?
Is Fancy Equipment Needed on a Homestead? If you’re working to live more sustainably on your urban or suburban homestead, ...
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5 Beautiful Plants For Your Garden That Bees Love
You may have had heard lately that the bees are in trouble. Bees are one of many pollinators that keep ...
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How To Enjoy Nature When You Live In The City
One of the main reasons people dream of moving to the country and starting a homestead is so that they ...
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11 Reasons Why You Need To Know About Permaculture
What is Permaculture? If you've been around the organic homesteading community at all, you may have heard the term permaculture ...
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How to Grow Awesome Microgreens Without a Garden
Don't have room for a garden? Well you are in luck because you don't have to have a plot of ...
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Compost Makes Every Homestead Better. Want To Try?
New homesteader? Learn how to compost! Starting your first compost bin can be really exciting for us homesteading/self-sufficiency geeks. Finally! ...
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Growing Plants from Kitchen Scraps Is Surprisingly Easy
There are so many vegetables you can regrow, that growing plants from kitchen scraps is an easy way to start a garden ...
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Building Soil Is The Big Secret To Great Gardens
When I first started gardening I figured I was a total fail at it. Everything I planted DIED. Even blackberry ...
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Planning a Garden is a Simple Way to a Better Harvest
Have you ever had grand dreams of a beautiful garden, but it never went exactly the way you imagined? Maybe ...
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Planting Garlic is Easy! Here’s How To Do It
Maybe you like a challenge, maybe you forgot to order seeds. Whatever the reason, you find yourself wanting to grow ...
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5 Reasons You Need To Learn About Herbs
I never knew much about herbs. Sometimes my mom had me take St. John's Wort when I was feeling down, ...
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Here’s How To Live Sustainably When You Have a Small Lot (Urban Permaculture Zone 4)
Living sustainably may be easier on a few acres in the country, but that doesn't mean you can't use all ...
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Saving Tomato Seeds Is a Great Way To Superior Tomatoes
Saving tomato seeds from heirloom fruit has several awesome advantages. The first is that you get to save money on ...
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How To Have Fun When Gardening With Kids
Gardening with kids is the only way gardening happens around here. My kids love to be included in the ...
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Making Up Potting Bags: DIY Potting Bag Tutorial
Hi, I'm Carley from Making It Up as I Sew Along, and this is my backyard. Actually, it's my front yard, ...
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How To Live In Tune With The Seasons
Living in tune with the seasons has always had a sense of romance to me. Even before beginning the backyard ...
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27 Reasons to Love Dandelions
There are a lot of reasons to love dandelions, despite the fact they often get a bad reputation. They are ...
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How to Plant Potatoes
Growing potatoes is a pretty straightforward process. They don't even have to be labor intensive, and can be grown in ...
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This Is What Happens When You Plant Perennials
Ahhh, spring. The sun comes out longer, rains encourage the grass and weeds to explode with growth, and gardeners everywhere ...
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How To Grow Ginger From The Store
If you are anything like me, you like trying random gardening experiments. I'm always trying to plant things that I ...
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How To Recycle Concrete Into Urbanite For A Unique Garden
With a little creativity and some grunt work, beautiful paths, patios and other projects can be made by recycling unwanted ...
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You Need To Try No Dig Gardening For Great Soil
No dig gardening is a great way to cut down on weeds, watering, and enrich your soil and it even ...
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How to (Not) Grow Rosemary
My parents have a gorgeous rosemary plant that just keeps growing and growing. They are forever hacking away at it ...
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How To Make Newspaper Pots and Save Money Starting Seeds
Newspaper seed pots are super simple and cheap to make. Don't spend a ton of money buying seed trays when ...
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Inexpensive Tools Every Gardener Should Have
If you are getting started with homesteading or growing your own food you may think you need to run out ...
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How to Make an Upcycled Pallet Planter for Cheap
Making a pallet planter is a quick way to increase the vertical planting space in your garden. If you find ...
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How to Make Soda Bottle Greenhouses
If you are like me, you are forgetful. And if you are forgetful, sometimes you forget to water the seedlings ...
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Hugelkultur: Colossal Garden Beds For Remarkable Results
In my first urban homestead in Portland, there was a large cedar tree in the front yard. As I looked ...
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