Healthy Popsicle Recipes Using Fresh Berries
Summertime. It was my favorite part of my childhood. I can still remember the mellow New England summers, the looming pines, and the slow days in the garden with my mom. I used to love sitting on the lawn, eating freeze pops, while my mom would tend to the plants. My mom had things figured […]
Vegetables Grown On The Ocean Floor at Nemo’s Garden! (Video)
Nemo’s Garden is an experiment on the seabed of Italy where vegetables are grown in air tight pods which are anchored to the ocean’s floor, sunlight heats the pods interior creating a climate capable of growing produce. The salt water in the pods evaporates and condensates on the roof and drips down as fresh water […]
Strawberries Hate Potatoes: Secrets of Companion Planting + Popular Planting Combinations Part 2
Companion planting in gardening and agriculture is the planting of different crops in proximity for the benefit of both plants such as pest control, pollination, providing habitat for beneficial creatures, maximizing use of space, and to otherwise increase crop productivity. Companion planting is a form of poly-culture. Companion planting is used by farmers and gardeners […]
Perennial Food Plants for Lazy Gardeners
Okay, we’re not lazy gardeners, really. We just want to reap the best harvest we can with the least amount of effort. Perennial plants really fit the bill here, because you only have to baby them from seed to maturity once, instead of playing the repeat-game every growing season. A single pear tree, for example, […]
A Permaculture Country Club Where There is Disc Golf Course on an Organic Garden!
There is a Permaculture Country Club in Costa Rica, part of Saint Michael’s Sustainable Community, that is a gardening club that runs on Organic Community Supported Agriculture Programs where you can buy or rent a house with green technologies. Technologies like living roofs and walls, landscape that is edible and is accompanied by an ocean […]
The Tropical Fruit Tree Americans Forgot: The Pawpaw Tree
What if I told you that North America has an easy-to-grow native tropical fruit tree that you’ve never even heard of? The Pawpaw is our largest native fruit, and it tastes something like banana and mango with hints of vanilla (yum!). Nicknamed the “Appalachian Banana” or “poor man’s banana”, Pawpaws are the largest edible fruit […]
DIY Chicken feeders and Raising three boys
For the last week, our motorhome has been parked at the 1 Full House Homestead. We spent the new year with the family. Ananda, Xander, and their three boys Elijah, Jordan, and Michael. They have a some big plans for their homestead in 2016, including raising meat chickens, growing more food, and quite possible getting […]
The Fastest and Easiest Fruit To Grow
From Marjory Wildcraft’s GrowYourOwnGroceries.org Blackberries will produce within the first year. The fruit is great fresh eating, in jams, or jellies, and makes fabulous, fabulous wine. The leaves of the plant make a nice tea. They grow throughout most of the US, but watch the video to see where you DON’T want to plant this.