As with my 101+ Dehydrating & 101+Canning posts, here is a new 101+ Gardening Tips & Ideas package to help you get ready for gardening season! Click on any title below to be taken to awesome information from around the web! 101+ Gardening Tips & Ideas General Tips Saving Big on Lumber Supplies for Raised […]
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The Importance of a Survival Seed Bank
It’s winter time…when most folks aren’t even beginning to think about the garden, unless, of course, they are PREPared 🙂 This is the prefect time to be planning and ordering and beginning your wee plants, in preparation for the great garden adventure to come! Not All Seeds Are The Same Heirloom Seeds – seeds taken […]
Top 10 Seed Catalogs for the PREPared Gardener
Snuggle up during the cold of winter and begin dreaming of your new garden with these top ten seed catalogs for the prepared gardener. It’s beginning to look a lot like spring you’d think with all of the seed catalogs beginning to arrive at gardening houses all over the Northern Hemisphere. But if you haven’t […]
How to Save BIG on Lumber Supplies for your Square Foot Garden
Hey! Put down that seed catalogue! I know it’s winter. I know you’re really just looking at all those seeds and thinking, “Hmm…what can I plant next year?” I know you are in the midst of settling in for your winter break from the garden. But NOW is the time to plan. And have I […]
Nettle Leaf Soup: How Shopping in Your Front Yard Can Improve Your Diet!
Foraging is one of the areas that I’d love to learn more about with my kids. How easy it is to supplement your current diet as well as prepare for emergencies where you need to forage for all of your food by just visiting your front yard and area green spaces! Amber Rose from FreshBitesDaily.com […]
10 Survival Foods You Need to be Growing
And here’s a more in depth reason why from Prepper Project. Growing many of these veg can happen in containers even if you’re in a small space, or through vertical gardening projects, etc. Emily MendelEmily as an MFA in creative writing and a strong passion for cooking! She started trying out her mother’s recipes from […]
The Benefits of Organic Gardening
The Benefits of Organic Gardening Our garden is very important to us – not only is it a way for us to provide food for our family and get off the needs of shopping at the grocery store, it teaches our children about taking care of themselves, as well. And if for no other reason, […]
National Naked Gardening Day
May 6, 2016 is National Naked Gardening Day. Are you going to join in?? I’m not quite sure I want to see it in it’s purest form. I’ll share with you our form in just a sec. According to the UPI: Gardeners from around the country took off their clothes and planted flowers to celebrate the 10th […]
Ways to Dehydrate Food
Dehydrating food is a great way to be able to preserve your garden bounty or great find at the produce stand. You simply remove the moisture from your produce or meat to give it a much longer shelf life. This is not the same thing as freeze-drying which is a more mechanical process. This is […]