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Top Garden 101 Posts

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Garden Companion Planting Chart, Plans, and Benefits

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Easy Raised Bed Drip Irrigation (from Faucet or Spigot)

Composting 101: What, Why & How to Compost at Home

How to Build a Raised Garden Bed: Step-by-Step Guide

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Seed Starting 101: How to Sow Seeds Indoors

How To Start A Garden: 101

Popular Preserving Recipes

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Easy Low Sugar Peach Jam Without Pectin (Canning or Freeze)

Two quart mason jars are filled with long spears of pickles. Surrounding the jars are onion, cucumber, fresh dill, and peppercorns.

Crunchy Refrigerator Pickles: Quick & Easy Homemade Dill Pickles

Easy Fermented Hot Sauce Recipe: How to Ferment Peppers

Simple & Delicious Roasted Tomato Sauce Recipe (Freeze or Can)

A large glass crock with a red and white cloth lid is halfway full of apple chunks that are floating in sugar water. A few whole apples are surrounding the crock.

Preserving Apples: How to Make Homemade Apple Cider Vinegar

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Besto Pesto Recipe: Lemon Walnut Basil Pesto (Freezer Tips)

Best Sourdough Guides

Easy Sourdough Focaccia Bread Recipe (Overnight or Same Day)

Simple No-Knead Sourdough Bread Recipe

How to Feed Your Sourdough Starter + Storage & Care Tips

Ginger molasses sourdough cookies are cooling on a wire cooling rack while a couple cookies sit on a small plat. two slices of sourdough pumpkin bread are resting on a plat and a pie with a sourdough lattice crust is resting on a wire cooling rack.

15 Best Sourdough Discard Recipes: Ways to Use Starter Discard

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Sourdough Ginger Molasses Cookies (Soft and Chewy)

How to Make Your Own Sourdough Starter From Scratch

Top Natural Health Posts

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Easy Fire Cider Recipe: How to Make Homemade Fire Cider

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How to Make Elderberry Syrup with Fresh or Dried Berries

How to Make Homemade Calendula Salve for Healthy Skin

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How to Make Salve or Balms 101: Simple Flexible Recipe

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How to Make Medicinal Herb Infused Oil: Two Ways

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10 Best Vegetarian and Vegan Supplements for Improved Health

Starting a Homestead

Rainwater Collection Systems 101: How to Harvest Rainwater at Home

How to Start a Homestead: 9 Must-Read Tips for New Homesteaders

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A Beginner’s Guide to Using a Hobby Greenhouse

How to Choose Fruit Trees to Plant: Climate, Varieties & More

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How to Plant a Tree: Best Practices for Success

16 Best Gardening Books + Other Homestead Guides

Top Backyard Chicken Posts

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10 Ways to Keep Chickens Cool During Hot Summer Weather or Heat Waves

Four baby chicks are standing on a dresser picking at some feed. Houseplants are just behind the chicks against the wall.

Raising Baby Chicks 101: The Best Beginner’s Guide

A brown and white chicken is standing in a few inches of snow.

10 Tips on Caring for Chickens in Cold Winter Weather

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How to Store & Wash Fresh Eggs: Best Practices for Backyard Chicken Eggs

Backyard Chickens 101: What to Expect When You’re Expecting

The Top 18 Chicken Breeds for Your Backyard Flock

Garden to Table Recipes

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20+ Satisfying Vegan & Vegetarian Holiday Recipes Everyone Will Love

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Creamy Roasted Tomato Basil Soup with Fresh Tomatoes (Vegan)

A bowl full of pumpkin chili garnished with avocado slices and cilantro. Surrounding the bowl are a few slices of sourdough bread, roasted halves of whole pumpkin, and a half of an avocado.

Easy Roasted Pumpkin 3-Bean Chili Recipe (Vegetarian and Vegan)

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13 Must-Try Zucchini Recipes: Clever Ways to Use Zucchini

A white ceramic bowl with handles contains kale lentil soup with carrots. Surrounding the bowl is fresh kale and a couple slices of sourdough bread.

Kale Lentil Soup (Stew): Hearty, Healthy, Vegan

A freshly baked butternut squash pumpkin pie is in a glass pie baking dish. A leaf made out of dough is in the middle of the pumpkin pie.

Delicious Butternut Squash Pie Recipe (Vegan Options)

Top Pest & Disease Control Posts

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Organic Aphid Control: 9 Ways to Get Rid of Aphids

A gophers head is just sticking out of the ground, its mouth is open with two large teeth showing.

Non-Toxic Gopher Control: How to Gopher-Proof Your Garden

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Garden Hoops and Row Covers for Pest Control, Shade & Frost Protection

A large zucchini plant is covered in powdery mildew which has turned the leaves from dark green to powdery white.

How to Get Rid of Powdery Mildew: Organic Treatment and Prevention

8 Organic Ways to Get Rid of Cabbage Worms & Cabbage Moths

DIY Aphid Spray Recipe: How to Make Homemade Insecticidal Soap

Top Cannabis Guides

Vaporizing Cannabis: Science, Safety, Quality & Technology

How To Grow Cannabis Organically: Seeds, Soil, Containers & Care

How to Harvest, Dry, Trim, Cure, & Store Homegrown Cannabis: The Ultimate Guide

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How to Make a Cannabis Tincture: Easy Cold Alcohol Extraction

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How to Feed Cannabis, Organically: Top-Dressings, Teas, & More!

How to Make Homemade Cannabis Salve (CBD or THC)