sustainable living, homesteading, sustainable homemaking
Regardless of where you live, container gardening can and should be part of your lifestyle! Why? Here’s a few good reasons! 1. Container gardening is easy! Organic, fresh food that’s easy shouldn’t need a reason to be grown! When food is right outside your back door, window or fire escape, you will find fewer excuses [...]
Tami Lewis is the winner of the book! Congrats! Thanks to all who entered! I LOVE to give books away! Container gardening has made a major comeback! It doesn’t matter where you live, you CAN container garden! “The Vegetable Gardener’s Container Bible” has incredible photos and ideas for growing the most food possible. Even if [...]
This photo could pretty much sum up my week. Photo credit Over last weekend, we lost several of our layers tragically. It was a very distressing scene that I won’t go into. It took me a few days to get the situation under control again, but it was validating to know that the culprit was [...]
Step 1: Get to Know YOUR Farming Community Step 2: Determine Your Ability to Grow Food Step 3: Creating Good Soil Step 4: Choose easy crops To insure success your first year gardening, you’ll want to choose easy crops to grow. Don’t worry, there are lots to choose from! This is not to say that [...]
Step 2: Beginning Homesteading Series/Can I grow Food? Once you’ve made the effort to get to know your local farming community, your second steps should be to assess whether or not you are going to be able to grow food. You don’t have to live on a traditional “homestead” to be a homesteader these days! [...]
Today, we’ll be giving away three darling heirloom seed sets from “The Urban Homemaker“! Kid’s Garden Starter Kit: Lettuce and Carrots Each Kit contains: 2 biodegradable planting pots Certified organic seeds Organic planting mix 100% recyclable windowsill protector tray 1 – 2 – 3 easy grow guide Herb Garden Starter Kit: Cilantro and Basil Each [...]
Lori W. and Genny C. are Day 1′s winners and have been notified by email! Congrats! Now that we have discussed how to grow vegetables, let’s give away a fab tool to help you once you grow them! Introducing the Hoss Tools “Hoe Dag”! Designed over 50 years ago, the Hoe Dag has been an indispensable [...]
This giveaway is now closed, the winner is Lori W. All week long, The Morristribe will be featuring our wonderful sponsors of the “Easter Chicken” giveaway! Milo says to tell you to check out all of their websites for things you can really use in your sustainability efforts! Urban Homemaker Trilight Herbs Rare Seeds Everything Home [...]
Time and energy are at a premium in this life, especially on a homestead where the work never ends. The last thing I need to be battling every summer is weeds, but what’s an organic gardener to do? This year I’m going with 4 mil. black plastic on my garden bed. I’ve not a big [...]
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