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Fermented Plant Juice: A Drink Only a Garden Could Love

Everyone loves a refreshing, nutritious drink…even your garden! Take your fermentation skills into the garden by brewing fermented plant juice.

Two black-and-white cows grazing in a sunny green field with a distant farmhouse and trees in the background, creating a pastoral farm scene.

Milk Feeds Everything: The Benefits of a Family Cow

Cows are the gold standard for milk production. They are the ultimate heroes of sustainable living! Explore the benefits of having a cow on your farm or homestead.

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Make Your Own Kombucha: The Tea Beast Lives

Make your own kombucha at home – it’s easier than you think! Kombucha is not only great for your gut health. It’ll make your taste buds happy, too. Get bubbling with this easy recipe to make your own kombucha!

Not Level? No Problem. How to Build a Greenhouse on a Slope

Thinking about building a greenhouse but worried about an uneven or sloped yard? Building a greenhouse on a slope offers a bonus: the ability to use gravity to harvest rainwater. Embrace the natural landscape and get ready to grow your garden dreams!

Make a Foraged, Immune-Boosting Pesto for Spring

Put your cooking and foraging skills to the test with this seasonal, delicious garlic mustard pesto recipe. Create a vibrant, nutrient-packed pesto that harnesses the power of springtime foraging.

Permanent Beds: Designing An Efficient Garden

Ready to transform your gardening game? Revolutionize your gardening with permanent beds! They help improve soil health, ensure crop growth, and are extremely easy to design, even for beginners!

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The Perfect Books to Gift Mom This Mother’s Day

These much-loved titles are the perfect books for Mother’s Day! Gardening books, cookbooks, memoirs and more — there’s a book for every mom on this list.

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Zero Waste for Every Kitchen: Sustainability at the Source

Make a difference in the kitchen! Prioritize sustainable cooking through zero waste methods. From the ingredients we choose to how we dispose of what’s left behind, every small step in the kitchen can make a BIG difference!

Garlic Mustard: A Gold Mine of Food and Medicine

Invasive garlic mustard gets a bad rep, but did you know it’s edible from root to leaf? Garlic mustard can be consumed in its entirety and has great nutritional value. Plus, the flavor adds a punch of flavor to any dish!

Twenty-First-Century Economist: Seven Ways to Think Like One

When it comes to how we think about the economy, we’re centuries behind the times. Renegade economist, Kate Raworth, proposes an entirely new approach to economic systems thinking designed to help us develop new standards for economic success.

Bring on the Birds: Attracting Birds to Your Garden

Birds: they’re beautiful, they sing sweet songs, AND they can help our gardens thrive. They eat pests, pollinate plants & add beauty to your outdoor space! What’s not to love? Keep reading to learn more about the benefits of birds in gardens.

Deliciously Fresh Salmon Cake Recipe with Lemon Pesto

This salmon cake recipe makes for a simple and flavorful dinner. Delicious, golden-brown patties made with salmon are a tasty alternative to crab cakes. Perfect for a quick & delicious dinner!

Growing Medicinal Herbs: An Agricultural Revolution

Growing & using your own medicinal herbs keeps you healthy AND helps improve our environment. So what’re you waiting for? Check out these quick tips and get ready to start an agricultural revolution with medicinal herbs!

The Importance of Soil Health: 5 Key Principles for Healthy Soil

Want a thriving farm or garden? Here’s the secret: healthy soil! Learn how to boost your soil and plant health with these simple principles. Supercharge your soil and plants and discover the secrets of healthy soil!

Badlands without Beavers: How Teddy Roosevelt became a conservationist

Explore the vital role beavers play in our ecosystems and how they inspired Teddy Roosevelt’s conservation efforts after a disappointing hunting trip in beaverless badlands. Read the full story and you too will become a “Beaver Believer.”

The #1 Health Rule: Eat Real Food

The best health rule? Ditch the barcode! The most important step you can take toward a long and healthy life is to eat wholesome, nutritious, real food. The gift of lifelong good health is a marathon, not a sprint. Fuel your health with nature’s medicine!

Planting, Transplanting, and Pruning Trees

Interested in growing trees? Check out these tips for successfully planting, transplanting, and pruning to create a thriving edible landscape!

Drill, Plug, Wax, Wait: 6 Simple Steps to Growing Mushrooms Outdoors

Mushrooms are a game-changer. And growing mushrooms outdoors just got easier! We have a mushroom growing method that’s so simple, you have no excuse not to try it out. All you need is a log or tree stump, some mushroom starter, and a couple of basic tools.

The Cost of Manufactured Food: Land & Energy

It’s no secret that overly manufactured food isn’t good for our health. The production of these foods can also be harmful for agriculture & the environment. We must change the way we grow and purchase food to stay healthy and keep small farms running.

Homemade Bone Broth: A Healthy Diet Staple

You’ve Been Missing Out! Bone Broth is the ultimate superfood, packed with nutrients and goodness. Add this nutrient-rich, immune system boosting bone broth into your daily diet.

The Condition of Wondering

What is the condition of wondering? For as long as humans have been alive, we have been asking questions. It is a part of us. It is what makes us unquestionably human. This condition of wondering is still absolutely intact in us. Bad storytellers make spells. Great storytellers break them.