The author shares their homesteading journey, teaching their children, and writing to pass down knowledge to future generations. They hope their experiences help others live closer to nature. Concerned about the blog’s impact, they invite feedback and offer homesteading books. Their goal is to leave a legacy and share wisdom from past generations.
Category Archives: Simply Vegetable Gardening
Beginning the Fall Garden Indoors Now
This year I have been doing what I can to get as much from a small garden space as possible. To tell you the truth, the reason is we are getting older and don’t have as much energy as we used to even just a few years ago. The old body doesn’t recover as fastContinue reading “Beginning the Fall Garden Indoors Now”
Fresh New Potato Dishes
This year, our garden is overflowing with potatoes, especially the tiny new potatoes with delicate skins and flaky white centers. We enjoy making green beans and new potatoes, potato salad, oven-fried potatoes, and a breakfast skillet, all using our freshly grown produce. These recipes are flexible and can be adjusted to suit individual tastes.
Enjoy Fresh Green Beans this Week
A year’s worth of snap green beans from two 4×8 beds. Excess canned last year; now growing enough for fresh consumption and to share at the farmers’ market. Recipes for green beans and new potatoes, stir-fried garlic green beans, and rice cooking technique. Author of several vegetable gardening books available on Amazon.
Planting the Main Garden
In the Ozarks, the arrival of blackberry winter marks the time to plant garden mainstays like tomatoes and peppers. Preparing transplants involves gradually exposing them to sunlight and ensuring ample water. After the last frost, the author plants various vegetables and herbs in prepared garden beds, managing the process despite uncooperative weather. If interested in vegetable gardening, the author offers helpful books on Amazon.
Does Gardening Really Help Your Emotional Health?
A few days ago, someone asked me why I thought everyone was so angry and unhinged all the time and I said that I thought it was because they weren’t spending enough time getting their hands dirty. There’s science behind the idea of the emotional benefits of gardening. Scientists have long wondered whether humans boastContinue reading “Does Gardening Really Help Your Emotional Health?”
Rambling in the Garden
The garden has been planted with potatoes, onions, lettuce, and brassicas, using fabric bags and direct ground planting. Challenges with chickens digging and mulching are managed with a fence and timed roaming. The author connects gardening with spiritual thoughts, tying the season’s renewal to religious holidays. Several gardening books are also promoted.
February’s Gardening Schedule
Can you believe that February is over half over? Many people in the Northern Hemisphere are looking out at the winter weather hoping for an early spring. Others, like me, have already started the 2024 gardening season. What We’ve Done So Far Here at our place, the onions and the herbs that I planted areContinue reading “February’s Gardening Schedule”
We Were All Preppers
The post discusses the commercialization of the prepping movement and how people used to be more self-sufficient. The author describes their current efforts in gardening, foraging, hunting, raising animals, and learning various skills. Additionally, they have written books on vegetable gardening and other relevant topics to help others learn these skills.
Free Fertilizer Right in Your Own Backyard
In recent years, many commercial fertilizers have been in short supply and what we can purchase is so expensive. What if I told you that you don’t need to purchase fertilizer to get rich soil that offers so many different types of fertilizers? What if I told you that the fertilizer that your soil needsContinue reading “Free Fertilizer Right in Your Own Backyard”
The Perpetual Homesteader 