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11/30/2022
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By Zoey Sky
Home gardening tips: How to grow onions from seed
Instead of buying onions every time you’re at the grocery, learn how to grow them from seed so you can just harvest onions from your backyard whenever you need them. If you have excess crops, you can sell them or make preserved onions for your stockpile to consume throughout the year. Compared to other vegetables […]
11/22/2022
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By Zoey Sky
Expert recommends incorporating livestock on farmland to improve soil quality
Garden soil quality is crucial if you want to raise healthy crops in your home garden. An expert recommends incorporating livestock on farmland to improve soil quality. Many successful regenerative farming programs are integrating livestock back onto the land to boost soil health. Cattle offers many agronomic benefits Mike Winkler, a soil conservationist with McCook, Nebraska Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), explained […]
11/21/2022
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By Zoey Sky
Beehives, herbal gardens and more: 8 Useful prepper projects to try before SHTF
If you’re a diligent prepper, you may already have a stockpile with essential survival supplies like food, water and other items like medicinal supplies, firearms and ammo. But once you’re done setting up your stockpile, there are other things you can do to prepare your homestead before disaster strikes, like starting a home garden and packing bug-out bags […]
11/21/2022
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By Zoey Sky
SHTF sanitation and hygiene: 5 Plants that you can use as soap
Washing your hands regularly and keeping your home clean is important for maintaining proper hygiene and the prevention of illnesses. But you might run out of crucial supplies like soap when SHTF, so find out which plants can be used as a natural soap alternative. These plants are also a good alternative to soap and cleaning […]
11/17/2022
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By Zoey Sky
Home gardening basics: How to keep composting during the winter
Some gardeners may think that it’s not worth it to keep composting as winter comes around, but maintaining your composting efforts even during the cold months is key if you want fertile soil and healthy crops the next year. (h/t to OldWorldGardenFarms.com) Don’t let the cold deter you from composting. Once you figure out what you […]
11/07/2022
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By Zoey Sky
Keep your garden soil healthy with crop rotation
If you want your organic garden to succeed, you need to learn about crop rotation. This practice involves rotating plant families from one season to the next, meaning you don’t plant related crops in the same location more than three years in a row. Doing this can help improve the soil quality in your garden. (h/t […]
10/28/2022
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By Zoey Sky
Gardening tips for preppers: How to start a medicinal herb garden
Home remedies made with medicinal herbs are usually a safer alternative to many over-the-counter (OTC) medicines because they aren’t linked to negative side effects. If you want easy access to healing medicinal herbs, plant herbs like calendula and lavender in your home garden. You can start an herb garden in your homestead, or in a […]
10/12/2022
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By Zoey Sky
6 Common homemade organic fertilizers for your home garden
Many factors work together to ensure that your home garden produces healthy crops, but the three that are most limited in the natural environment are nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium. These three nutrients are collectively known as NPK. Some gardeners are fine with using fertilizer from big box stores that contain at least 10 percent of each of those critical […]
09/16/2022
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By Zoey Sky
Post-SHTF hygiene: 11 Plants that can be used as soap
Hygiene is crucial when you’re living in a post-SHTF world. It’s good to know which plants can be used as soap even if you’re just looking for an environment-friendly and cheaper alternative to store-bought soap. (h/t to UrbanSurvivalSite.com) But how can plants be used as soap? The secret lies in saponin, a naturally-occurring compound in many plants, especially those […]
09/01/2022
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By Zoey Sky
Foraging 101: 10 Wild nuts to forage every Fall
Nuts are delicious and nutritious. And when SHTF, wild nuts can be a great source of plant-based protein. If you want to stock up on wild nuts for winter, forage for nuts like almonds and beechnuts in the fall. (h/t to PracticalSelfReliance.com) Fall is a great time for foraging because you have a lot of options […]
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