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25 DIY Root Cellar Ideas to Keep Your Harvest Fresh

25 DIY Root Cellar Ideas to Keep Your Harvest Fresh If you live a bit up to the north and want to store your food over the winter without using a fridge, there’s a good solution: using a root cellar....

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Everything You Need to Know about Companion Planting

When you are planning your garden, imagining it full of wonderful produce, herbs, and ornamental plants, it is so much fun to decide where you will put everything. But does it really matter where you...

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How To Grow Different Fruits on One Tree

How To Grow Multiple Different Fruits On One Tree Grow multiple fruits on one tree… This is known as “grafting”. Imagine having one tree with 2, 3 or 4 different fruits growing from it! This is great...

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6 Crops You Should be Planting in October

6 Crops You Should be Planting in October Most folks see October as the end of their gardening season but is not really the case.  There are many gardening tasks that still need to be completed in the...

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16 Essential Fall Garden Tasks

16 Essential Fall Garden Tasks   Believe it or not folks, Fall is here and that means some essential fall garden tasks need to be done now if you want to have a successful fall garden this year. I...

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How to Can, Freeze, Dry and Preserve Any Fruit or Vegetable at Home

How to Can, Freeze, Dry and Preserve Any Fruit or Vegetable at Home Knowing How to Can, Freeze, Dry and Preserve Any Fruit or Vegetable at Home is a not only for homesteaders, survivalist and people on...

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8 Snow-Hardy Vegetables You (Really) Can Grow During Winter

8 Snow-Hardy Vegetables You (Really) Can Grow During Winter Winter will be here soon, so it’s time to start thinking about what vegetables you can grow easily in your survival garden that can make it...

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Indoor Winter Gardening Tips and Tricks A Must Have In Case The SHTF

Indoor Winter Gardening Tips and Tricks A Must Have In Case The SHTF I love gardening indoors, I love the smell and the ease of just walking into a room and getting a few tomatoes or a fresh crop of...

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How to Make Your Garden Portable

One thing just about any prepper can agree is necessary to survive an extended SHTF event or economic collapse is the ability to feed yourself and your family especially as your food stockpile...

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Food Storage: 20 Crops That Keep and How to Store Them

Food Storage: 20 Crops That Keep and How to Store Them Knowing where our food comes from gives us confidence in its goodness, plus we save about $5,000 a year through our gardening and food storage...

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How to Grow Cucamelons (AKA Mexican Sour Gherkin)

Now here is a designer vegetable that is easy to grow and nutritious.  Children will be enchanted with the cucamelon that looks like a tiny watermelon just a little larger than the first joint of a...

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7 November Garden Tasks You Still Need To Do!

7 November Garden Tasks You Still Need To Do! For most of us in the Northern Hemisphere, November means the end of gardening season.  Cold, frost and maybe even snow are on the way in just a few weeks....

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Plants that Can Take the Heat

Over the past century, the world has gone through changes that may have been too fast for everyone to keep up. Skyscrapers rose almost overnight from flat and barren land. Row after row of houses were...

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How To Build A Wood Pallet Trellis Planter

How To Build A Wood Pallet Trellis Planter How to grow food indoors in Winter and overwinter perennial vegetables such as peppers, tomatoes, aubergines and chillies with this trellis planter made from...

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84 Tutorials To Help You Become More Self-Sufficient

84 Tutorials To Help You Become More Self-Sufficient More and more of us are turning towards homesteading as we learn how toxic modern living can be.  For many, a simpler, earth-based lifestyle can be...

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How to Grow Food 365 Days a Year

How to Grow Food 365 Days a Year With winter comes the end of the grow season for us gardeners.  To prepare, a lot of us preserve our harvest by canning, freezing, or storing in climate controlled root...

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21 Gardening Projects To Get You Through Winter

21 Gardening Projects To Get You Through Winter As the winter months approach, it’s time for us to finish the harvest and step away from the garden for the season.  Just because the cold weather pulls...

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Learn How to Trench Compost

Learn How to Trench Compost Traditional composting can be a bit of a pain!  You have to get just the right mix of browns and greens.  Then you have to turn the pile and water the pile just to get...

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Twelve Wild Foods For The Christmas Season

Twelve Wild Foods For The Christmas Season   As winter is approaching, the wild edibles get harder and harder to find. This article shows you 12 wild edibles still around when its Christmas season, it...

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Vegetable Storage in a Root Cellar

Vegetable Storage in a Root Cellar As the growing season draws to a close and the winter months approach, it’s time to think about storing food for the winter.  Freezing and canning are a great option...

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