Chickens are a wonderful addition to a garden, but without close supervision they can destroy the crops within it. Chickens are scavengers and will eat anything that they can get a hold of, and the...
When it’s time to start seeds for the garden everyone has their own method that they use. Some use small peat pots, some newspaper pots, and some use the trusty black plastic flat. These...
I love this time of year. The air is cool, the earth is damp, and there are still a few edibles in the garden. Early fall means that it is time to harvest one of my favorite vegetables. Yes, it is...
A Terroir-ist’s Manifesto For Eating in Place and Renewing America’s Food Traditions Know where your food has come from through knowing those who produced it for you, from farmer to forager, rancher...
Soil acidity is measured on a pH scale of 1 to 14. With 7.0 being neutral, everything below 7.0 is considered acidic and everything above is considered alkaline. Most garden plants thrive at a pH...
One of the biggest drawbacks to seed starting can be all the transplanting that is required. Starting the seeds in flats, moving the seedlings to bigger pots, then bigger pots, or into the ground...
Now that fall is setting in for many of us, fires in the wood stove, fireplace, or fire pit are getting fired up. For every cord of firewood burned, a five gallon bucket of ashes will remain. These...
Jan Hoadley grew up on a family farm in Illinois, and learned early that being different was OK. She’d been drawn to heritage and heirloom varieties partly because of the historical aspect...
When you think of a carrot you usually envision this long pointy thing that is nice and straight without extra appendages or knobs. But the reality of homegrown carrots is often less like the...
“One of the most important resources that a garden makes available for use, is the gardener’s own body. A garden gives the body the dignity of working in its own support. It is a way of rejoining the...