Saturday, May 18, 2024

Grow Food Not Lawns

In today's economy, one way you can impact your families purchasing power is to grow food not lawns. You want to know how to be labeled as a rebel in today's world? You don't have...

Are Garden Seeds Dangerous?

Are garden seeds dangerous? If you listen to the Pennsylvania State Department of Agriculture you're local seed library is a breeding ground for agriculture terrorist threats. They look dangerous, don't they? The NPR had a...
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How To Use Less Than Perfect Tomatoes

Here is a simple way to use less than perfect tomatoes from our friend Siloé at Suburban Homestead. It can be disheartening, especially for first time gardeners, when Mother Nature partially destroys your blue ribbon Brandywines....

Raised Beds 201 Part A

So our first year with raised beds were somewhat of a success. We did a test run that year to see how long we could extend the season and planted everything straight from seed...

The Backyard Garden is finally in

well this big orange round thing called the sun finally decided to come out and play the last couple of days so we could actually finish getting the backyard garden in. For some reason...