Earth Day 2025: Resilience & Stewardship in Uncertain Times
How are you celebrating Earth Day 2025? This year, Earth Day follows right after Easter. That means that many of the typical Earth Day activities like tree plantings or community...
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Earth Day 2025: Resilience & Stewardship in Uncertain Times
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How to Cure and Store Winter Squash
As we approach the arrival of the first frost, it’s time to think about harvesting and curing your winter squash. Cured and stored correctly, your winter squash can last through...
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Pumpkin Gnocchi with Sage Butter Sauce
After the pumpkin pie, pumpkin bread, and pumpkin soup, what else can you make with those beautiful heirloom pumpkins that you grew in your survival garden this year? How about...
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What to Plant in a Survival Garden
When you’re deciding what you should plant in your survival garden, you want a strategy that works for you. If you’re trying to feed a whole family, you want to...
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Choosing and Planting Cover Crops
Cover crops, also known as green manure are plants grown in your garden to improve soil condition. These crops are often planted at the beginning or end of the growing...
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What Is a Survival Garden?
At its most basic, a survival garden is exactly what it sounds like, a garden designed to feed you and your family. It requires more investment and work than just...
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Composting 101 - Get Started Composting
What is composting? Composting is the process of recycling organic matter into valuable fertilizer that can be used to enrich soil and plants. Composting is simple to do at home in...
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Survival Gardening as Protection from the Global Food Crisis
War, drought and heat waves, labor disputes and strikes, supply chain disruptions, COVID-19, and other factors all have played a part in this global food crisis. It’s a complicated problem...
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How to Store Seeds for the Longest Viable Life
As we approach the end of this year’s growing season, one of the final tasks to tackle in your survival garden is to gather and prepare seeds for storage to...
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How to Harvest and Save Seeds
Did you grow something amazing this year and would like to plant it again next year? As long as you started with non-hybrid (heirloom) plants or seeds, you can harvest...
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How to Prepare Your Garden for Fall
Whether you plan to plant Fall vegetables, cover crops, or let your garden beds lie fallow for the winter, the end of the Summer growing season is an opportune time...
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Canning 101: Water Bath Canning vs. Pressure Canning
When preparing food for long-term storage, different foods need different amounts of time and heat. Because of these differences, there are two primary methods of canning - water bath canning and...
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What to Plant in August
While August may be prime harvest time for your survival garden, it’s also the month to get prepared for your cool weather Fall garden.
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How to Get Rid of Squash Bugs
Ugh, squash bugs. They’re a huge pain to get rid of, especially once they’ve become adults. Let’s talk about ways to control and prevent a squash bug problem in your garden.
