Gretchen Kruesi

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Make Your Own Kombucha: The Tea Beast Lives

By Gretchen Kruesi / May 7, 2026 / Comments Off on Make Your Own Kombucha: The Tea Beast Lives

Kombucha. The tea beast. The new and trendy health drink. What’s better than drinking this wonderful tea? Making your own.

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

By Gretchen Kruesi / May 6, 2026 / Comments Off on 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

By Gretchen Kruesi / May 5, 2026 / Comments Off on 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

By Gretchen Kruesi / May 4, 2026 / Comments Off on 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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Garlic Mustard: A Gold Mine of Food and Medicine

By Gretchen Kruesi / April 30, 2026 / Comments Off on 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

By Gretchen Kruesi / April 29, 2026 / Comments Off on 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

By Gretchen Kruesi / April 27, 2026 / Comments Off on 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

By Gretchen Kruesi / April 23, 2026 / Comments Off on 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

By Gretchen Kruesi / April 22, 2026 / Comments Off on 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

By Gretchen Kruesi / April 21, 2026 / Comments Off on 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

By Gretchen Kruesi / April 20, 2026 / Comments Off on 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

By Gretchen Kruesi / April 17, 2026 / Comments Off on 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

By Gretchen Kruesi / April 17, 2026 / Comments Off on 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

By Gretchen Kruesi / April 16, 2026 / Comments Off on 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

By Gretchen Kruesi / April 15, 2026 / Comments Off on 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

By Gretchen Kruesi / April 14, 2026 / Comments Off on 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

By Gretchen Kruesi / April 13, 2026 / Comments Off on 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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Mushrooms as Food & Medicine: Ancient Medicine for Modern Times

By Gretchen Kruesi / April 9, 2026 / Comments Off on 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

By Gretchen Kruesi / April 8, 2026 / Comments Off on 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

By Gretchen Kruesi / April 8, 2026 / Comments Off on 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

By Gretchen Kruesi / April 7, 2026 / Comments Off on 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

By Gretchen Kruesi / April 6, 2026 / Comments Off on 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

By Gretchen Kruesi / April 3, 2026 / Comments Off on 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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The Surprising Benefits of Rewilding Your Garden

By Gretchen Kruesi / April 2, 2026 / Comments Off on The Surprising Benefits of Rewilding Your Garden

Ready to supercharge your garden’s biodiversity? Rewilding is a game-changer for farms and gardens! Let nature thrive and boost biodiversity on your farm or garden with rewilding!

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What and When to Grow in Containers

By Gretchen Kruesi / March 31, 2026 / Comments Off on What and When to Grow in Containers

Think you don’t have space for a garden? Think again! Follow this list of easy seasonal seeds to sow plus a rundown of what an entire year of container gardening can look like. Start growing your dream garden today!

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