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DIY Growing Herbs for Wounds

As you're learning to make your own herbal preparations, you will quickly notice how expensive it can be to acquire all the herbs you need for salves, tinctures, teas, and more. Save money by growing the herbs you’ll need to tend to wounds, rashes, sprains, and more!

Identify What's Coming In

Sectors are external forces that come onto our land – learn to draw a permaculture sector map for the homestead to anticipate these forces, design well, and avoid costly mistakes.

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Broadforks Effective for No-Till Gardens

Simple Broadforks will loosen garden soil without damaging the soil profile without going too deeply or aggressively. Use a Broadfork to bring root crops to the soil surface for harvesting, as well as mixing in cover crops. If you need to mix soil and compost, you can use the Broadfork for that, too!

Amend Clay Soil

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5 Ways to Fix Clay Soil

Use natural materials like organic matter, manure, cover crops, compost teas, and compost. You’ll be building the soil not replacing it with all these materials, including mulch, worm castings, and more!

Improve Sandy Soil for Growing

How to fix sandy soil with a few natural materials and some time! Using good design, organic composting materials like biochar and wood chips, as well as perennial plants. Grow more food by growing good soil!

Design a Forest Herb Garden

Do you have a patch of wooded land on your homestead, or even a shady nook that doesn't get much traffic? If you'd like to put that land into production for cash flow, or if you're an herbalist who would like to grow your own herbs, I invite you to consider these 25+ woodland herbs for forest farming on the homestead.

Herbs for Shade & Part Shade

50+ herbs that grow in shade. How to grow & use them for wellness and recipes – easy enough for beginners! Different types of shade explained and which herbs to start with. Observe your plants, take notes, and make changes as your grow herbs outdoors in the shade.

"Grow" Your Own Dirt - Make a New Garden!

Natural, organic, and permaculture friendly, this easy method of layering botanical materials in order to produce usable garden soil is so simple that any level of gardener can do it. Have new garden beds within a year or less with no commercial inputs!

Fix Garden Soil with Permaculture

How to amend soil with permaculture by applying compost, mulch, & cover crops, and holding water in the soil. The best time of year to amend soil and most economical methods. Healing your soil can be cheap & easy!

Beekeeping For Beginners

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Best Herbs for the Bees & Apiary

Here are the best herbs to plant for honey bees as a food source with the highest pollen or nectar content and which will bloom all during the growing season. Included are lists of herbs you can plant to detract bad bugs from the beehives and to keep the apiary (bee yard area) easier for you to maintain.

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Fix Rocky Soil - Natural Solutions!

Heal rocky soil with these natural solutions that include various mulch materials, specific garden design, and even livestock. Bonus: Learn to use the rocks you have around the homestead. Free rocks = free tools! Permaculture principles for homesteaders.

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Easy Composting for Beginners

Composting for beginners can be scary, but with this guide to my favorite easy methods, you will know how to start in no time! Whether you just want to deal with kitchen scraps or you want to compost in bulk, this post is for you! And with 3 simple methods of composting to choose from, you can compost in an apartment, or on 100 acres!

How to Grow Luffa Gourds

Learn how to grow luffa gourds in your garden. Steps to take for preparing the soil, planting, growing, pest and disease prevention, and harvesting.

Tired of harsh chemicals in your garden? Cardboard is a natural, eco-friendly way to smother weeds and keep your flowerbeds looking neat. Easy, effective, and safe for you, your family, and the environment! I show you how I use this gardening tip for my weed control. Amazon Boxes, Vege Garden, House Watercolor, Weed Barrier, Spice Muffins, Porch Decorations, Apple Spice, Dried Hydrangeas, Planter Ideas

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Tired of harsh chemicals in your garden? Cardboard is a natural, eco-friendly way to smother weeds and keep your flowerbeds looking neat. Easy, effective, and safe for you, your family, and the environment! I show you how I use this gardening tip for my weed control.

Make a Butterfly Garden with Buddleia

Start a butterfly garden with butterfly bush, or Buddleia. Start by planting, pruning, & including companion plants. Also, information about invasive nature of Buddleia & alternatives for the pollinator garden.

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