The 20-Pound Plant Your Ancestors Grew To Feed Livestock

Have you been preparing your soil for growing vegetables and other crops in your garden, only to see it washed away in storms? The valuable time and energy you spend – and the compost and [ … ]

If you are like me, you care about what you’re eating and where it comes from. You also know that by growing your own vegetables at home, you can avoid many of the harmful sprays [ … ]

Now that you have harvested all of your veggies, gardening is over, right? Wrong. Now we start preparing our beds for next year’s harvest. Preparing your garden to go through winter will make it easier to plant next year’s crops. When all is harvested from the garden, you can do one of two things. The first is to pull the plants for composting and plant a cover crop. The other option is to leave the plants where they are, crushing them to the ground… [ … ]