Square Foot Gardening is an effective way of gardening used to maximize land and resources. Start your backyard garden and grow all the food you need to survive directly on the homestead. This is Chapter 1 of 11 for the homesteader that wants to start growing all their vegetables themselves. …Continue Reading
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Urban Farming | How To Cure And Prevent Powdery Mildew
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Brentwood Urban Farm: A Sustainable Homestead in the City of Los Angeles Owned and operated by green farmers: Emily Richards and John Nogawski. Learn more here. Just because you live in a city, that doesn’t mean you can’t homestead. Such is the case for this organic urban farm. Brentwood Urban Farm is located in the heart of Los Angeles with a focus on water-preservation, …Continue Reading
Urban Farming | Seed Saving Tips
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Are you an urban farmer and looking for some seed saving tips? Seed saving is a great way to ensure you have a harvest for years to come. It has been an essential way to pass plants down through the ages. Preserve the practice of partaking the best of nature's gifts by saving seeds in your garden. Check out these seed saving tips so you can save the cream of the crop. Seed …Continue Reading
The Homestead Act of 1862
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What is the Homestead Act of 1862? How does the homestead act relate to western expansion, and to life as we know it today? …Continue Reading
Raising Chickens For Meat [Chapter 9] Raising Backyard Chickens – Homestead Handbook
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Start raising chickens for meat, and enjoy eating fresh poultry on your homestead. Raising backyard chickens has many benefits, chicken eggs and chicken meat are just some of them. …Continue Reading
