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Sweet corn takes up more garden space than most crops and it’s also fairly demanding in terms of moisture and nutrients. The incomparable taste of freshly-picked corn, though, is enough to encourage gardeners to continue to grow it. Native to ...

If you’re growing or foraging your own food for winter storage, there are plenty of options for keeping your family fed in the early days of winter. Many root crops, fruits and greens can keep for a few months cool ...

Are you ready to feed your family by what you grow and raise? If you want to reduce your dependency on the commercial food supply, you better start now. It is important to develop a functional homestead capable of producing ...

Companion planting — the practice of intentionally planting two or more species in close proximity to each other — has many advantages. Paired properly, companion plants can help each other grow, deter pests, reduce weeds and even improve flavor. Unfortunately, ...

How many of us have sisters we can truly count on? One or more who will be by our side rain or shine? You may be wondering how sisters and gardening go together, but it seems they always have for ...

Americans garden for many reasons. For some, it’s pleasant to get some fresh air after a long day in the office. Others do it for aesthetic pleasure. However, for those striving for self-reliance on their off-the-grid homestead, gardening is an ...

Anyone who is striving for self-sufficiency, whether living on a small city lot or on a ranch in the country, needs to have a self-sustaining garden. This means a garden that flourishes without the need for buying expensive hybrid seeds, ...

Having to subsist on a survival garden may seem like a distant reality right now. But whether you would ever have to live on the produce from your own garden is not relevant here. Your investments in the survival garden ...

Monarch butterflies are experiencing the worst population declines since record-keeping began two decades ago, and GMO products and herbicides could be to blame. Scientists and environmental professionals tasked with monitoring the species had hoped that during overwintering in Mexico, the ...

We are deep in the heart of farm country around these parts. With corn fields surrounding our property, it’s very hard to grow food without pesticides creeping in, but still we try. But when the trees we planted on our ...