Vermicomposting is worming its way onto farms everywhere. Here’s why you should fertilize with worm castings, and how to grow your own worm composting unit. Vermicomposting For The Homestead I’m always looking for new ways on the farm to reuse, recycle and repurpose, and there’s nothing I love more than an opportunity to reduce the…Continue Reading
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Make A Compost Bin Out Of Pallets
Looking for a great weekend project that will not take your whole weekend? Have some yard cleanup to do anyway? Try this pallet compost bin we built out of repurposed pallets and zip ties. It takes less than an hour, and is actually a great compost bin, due to the way the pallets create structure…Continue Reading
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How To Make Compost
We probably don’t need to tell you the benefits of compost for your soil. With a few easy steps you can grow bigger healthier plants and save your scraps from being turned into garbage. Plus, composting gives you the opportunity to see exactly what is going into your fertilizer. So enrich your soil, plants, and life…Continue Reading
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7 Ways To Prepare Wheat Without a Grinder
A lot of times people just getting started with their food storage have a big hang-up about wheat and how to use it. We are told to store hundreds of pounds of this food that we never actually cook with in our daily meal prep. For a long time we decided we wouldn’t store any…Continue Reading
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Build A Hanging Herb Garden
Herb gardens can be a fun and easy step into the world of gardening. And spring has sprung, making many of us feeling the urge to garden. Unfortunately, not everyone has an abundance of outdoor space to garden with. Our solution to this problem? A space-saving, indoor-friendly, hanging herb garden. To create your garden, you…Continue Reading
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Giving Seeds What They Need to Survive in Stasis
Being able to provide food for yourself is a good idea for a variety of reasons. In case of disaster, shortage, or something less catastrophic like job loss, planning out how you’d feed your family long term is a smart plan. In my opinion, knowing how to grow food for just one season just doesn’t…Continue Reading
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Save Space By Going Vertical With Your Vegetables
Vegetable plants grown by individuals and not bought at a market or grocery store have wide ranging advantages. Thanks to Survival Life and their new Special Report, people are learning how to grow vegetables, fruits, and herbs with little to no outdoor space. It’s called Growing Up: The Ins and Outs of Vertical Gardening,…Continue Reading
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Growing Food From Scraps
Did you know that 1/3 of all the food globally is wasted? Yes, it is! 1.3 billion tons gets lost or wasted or not consumed. And only a small percentage of that waste can be diverted for composting. Compost will help lessen these waste but did you know that there is a better way to save food?…Continue Reading
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How To Plant Tomatoes
Learn how to plant tomatoes from one of the best homesteaders around! Follow thee steps and your vine will be ripe with juicy tomatoes in no time. How To Plant Tomatoes Tomatoes are the quintessential summer fruit, perfect for sandwiches, salads, cooking, and canning. The smell and taste of a real, home-grown tomato is something…Continue Reading
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Hot Weather Cuts French, German Nuclear Power Output
AmiMoJo quotes Reuters:
Scorching temperatures across Europe coupled with prolonged dry weather has reduced French nuclear power generation by around 5.2 gigawatts (GW) or 8%, French power grid operator RTE’s data showed on Thursday. Electricity output was curtailed at six reactors by 0840 GMT on Thursday, while two other reactors were offline, data showed. High water temperatures and sluggish flows limit the…