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What You Need to Know about the “Rules of Threes”

Homesteading is more than just having a garden and livestock. Homesteading is about being prepared for whatever problems may come your way. Some of these problems include natural disasters that could happen to any of us. There are two rules of threes that I learned several years ago that should be the basis for anyContinue reading “What You Need to Know about the “Rules of Threes””

Achieving a Bumper Crop: Tomato and Potato Harvest | Organic Canning Method

Everyone has heard the joke about spending $200 to garden for a single tomato. That does happen. There’s a gardening learning curve that every gardener must go through. The other day I was talking with an Amish man at our farmer’s market about my books and I said that I was sure that he knewContinue reading “Achieving a Bumper Crop: Tomato and Potato Harvest | Organic Canning Method”

Get a Victory by Growing a Garden

Back during World War II, both the United States and Great Britain began what they called Victory Gardens. Great Britain had started the idea when the Axis powers began their quest to take over Europe during the late 1930s and early 1940s. As the Nazis rolled over their neighboring countries and swallowed up agricultural landContinue reading “Get a Victory by Growing a Garden”