Not Level? No Problem. How to Build a Greenhouse on a Slope
It may not seem like the “perfect spot,” but building a greenhouse on a slope offers a bonus: the ability to use gravity to harvest rainwater.
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Make a Foraged, Immune-Boosting Pesto for Spring
Spring is finally here! Put your cooking and foraging skills to the test with this seasonal, delicious garlic mustard pesto recipe.
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Permanent Beds: Designing An Efficient Garden
Permanent beds are going to change your gardening game. This type of garden bed helps improve soil health, ensures crop growth, and is extremely easy to design! The following is an excerpt from The Living Soil Handbook by Jesse Frost. It has been adapted for the web. Designing Permanent Beds The term permanent beds…
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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
Prioritize sustainable cooking through zero waste methods: From the ingredients we choose to how we dispose of what’s left behind, every step in the kitchen offers an opportunity to reduce our impact.
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Garlic Mustard: A Gold Mine of Food and Medicine
Garlic mustard can be consumed in its entirety and has great nutritional value. Plus, the flavor is perfect for recipes that call for mustard!
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Bring on the Birds: Attracting Birds to Your Garden
Birds: they’re beautiful, they sing sweet songs, AND they can help our gardens thrive. Keep reading to learn more about the benefits of birds in gardens.
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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!
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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!
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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.”
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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!
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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!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Catnip! Good for Cats, Good for Humans
Catnip: it’s not just for cats! Whether you’re seeking relaxation, digestive support, pain relief, or better sleep, catnip offers a natural and gentle approach. Explore the benefits of this incredible herb!
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Getting Started: Basics of Foraging Wild Seeds and Grains
Wild seeds & grains are packed with nutrients and versatility. Perfect for off-grid or wildcrafted cooking! New to foraging? Keep reading to get started!
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Mushrooms as Food & Medicine: Ancient Medicine for Modern Times
Ancient mushroom medicine for modern times. Get your daily dose of health! Mushrooms help us understand medicine is more than just chemicals. Discover nature’s medicine cabinet with the power of mushrooms!
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Grow Your Own Veg — Starting Plants from Seed
Growing your own vegetables may be easier than you think! All you need is an indoor or outdoor space & some seeds, and you’ll be starting plants in no time.
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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.
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Greater Flavor: How to Make A Basic Miso Paste
Miso lovers, rejoice! There are reasons that miso paste has become popular around the world: it’s versatile, relatively inexpensive & can be made in a range of flavors you’d be hard-pressed to find anywhere else. Make your own miso at home!
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Hedges: A Haven for Wild Greens
Wondering where to forage for fresh wild greens? Think beyond your garden… Look no further than hedges. Hedges are secret havens for delicious herbs & wild greens. Get ready to start foraging. Hedges are a hidden treasure trove of natural goodness!
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Easy Cheeses to Make at Home: Ten Bells Cheese
Homemade cheese doesn’t have to be complicated, all you really need is a handful of ingredients, time and a love of cheese. Make homemade cheese in no time! Say goodbye to complicated cheese-making and get ready to create your own delicious homemade cheese.
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