Heat It Up: How To Make Your Own Simple Garden Hot Sauce
Heat it up: How to make your own simple garden hot sauce so you never need to buy it from the store again! Save money…
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Raspberry Leaf Tea
Growing Raspberries Leaf Tea is a great investment for your urban garden. In addition to the fruit, the leaves make a healing, medicinal tea. Health…
Summer Squash Rice Bake: From Garden to Table
Summer Squash Rice Bake: From Garden to Table, how to transform your summer squash into a scrumptious rice bake. Using delicious home grown or market…
What Is Urban Homesteading?
Urban homesteading means growing your own food, to whatever degree possible, in the city. This often includes scratch cooking and preserving the harvests. You might…
How Can You Heal Yourself? My Journey to Wellness
Many of you have asked me about my chronic illness, my journey to wellness, and how you can heal yourself. This post tells what I…
A Good Read This Winter
This post is a little different, you might say, an uncommon post, only vaguely related to urban homesteading, but with winter fast approaching, I want…
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How To Make Cayenne Pepper Powder
Read on about drying cayenne peppers and learn how to grow, dry, and store your own cayenne pepper powder. Say goodbye to buying this at…
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How To Make Cider From Apples
How to make cider from apples you’ve grown at home, picked from a local farm, or even just bought at the regular grocery store. Apple…
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Harvest Season On An Urban Homestead
A peek inside life during harvest season on an urban homestead Greetings! This is the time of year that gets most people into gardening. It’s…
New Year, New Backyard Vegetable Garden
In this new year, learn exactly how to start your backyard vegetable garden for your plants to thrive and your harvest dreams to come true!…
A Gardener’s Guide To Winter
This gardener’s guide to winter will help give you some ideas to pass the time while your plants are dormant and resting. Spoiler Alert: You…
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How To Grow & Harvest Horseradish
When should you harvest horseradish? How do you grow it anyway? Learn about those things & more in this guide to having horseradish in your…
Planting Garlic: Tips and Tricks for a Successful Harvest for Beginners
Planting Garlic: Tips and Tricks for a Successful Harvest for Beginners: Your Guide To Planting, Harvesting, & Storing. Are you a beginner gardener looking to…
Concord Grape Pie (Gluten Free Vegan)
This gluten free vegan Concord Grape pie will quickly become your new love language. If anyone ever makes you Concord grape anything, know this: They…
Gardening in Small Spaces
Many of us have dreamed of having lush rolling acres of land ready to fill with every darn thing we can imagine growing as gardeners. And…
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How to Make Your Own Garlic Powder
We love garlic at our house and try to grow enough for the whole year on our tiny piece of land in the city. There’s a…
A Casual Garden Stroll in June
Come on in, and join me for a casual garden stroll in June. Today’s post is just about meandering aimlessly through the garden. A garden…
10 Essential Things to Do Before You Plan Your Garden
When you’re first starting your garden, it can be a little overwhelming. There’s so much to learn and think about, and it can be tough…
Easy Watering: The Biggest Game Changer in my Garden’s Success
Easy Watering: If there’s one thing I could offer any beginning gardener, it’s to figure this out straight away! This blog post features my favorite…
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Raspberry Leaf Tea
Growing Raspberries is a great investment! Besides the juicy, yummy fruit, their leaves are also great for medicinal tea. How to Harvest Raspberry Leaf In…
My Best (Easy!) Tip for Growing a Lush, Organic Garden
One of my neighbors had the most gorgeous garden. Everything was healthy and lush, big and strong. I figured she was dousing everything in Miracle-Gro….
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How To Use Herbs In Flower Bouquets
Learn how to use herbs and other unusual things from your garden to create interest and magic in your flower bouquets. Using Herbs In Flower…
Make Your Own Vegetable Stock For Free
In nature, nothing is wasted, and everything is transformed. This stock is a way to recreate this magic in your own kitchen. Making your own…
Gluten Free Vegan Blueberry Pancakes
How to make delicious, gluten free, vegan, blueberry pancakes. Blueberry Pancakes. Is there anything so sweet as cooking them up in a Saturday morning? When…
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Weird Tip For Keeping Slugs Out Of Your Garden
If you live in the Pacific Northwest, there is a little creature that you are very familiar with. Long, slimy, maybe even cute in a…