Note: You want a garden teaming with life. Ecological balance is key to successful organic gardening. Although these sprays are made from non-chemical ingredients, they will kill garden pests as well...
The ants go marching in your house, through the kitchen, and into the cabinets. They know where the good stuff is. Most of us would prefer not to have ants carrying off the pantry or pet food, and...
A mature mulberry tree can drop a multitude of berries. They are sweet, delicious, and have a lovely color (wear gloves!). One great way to preserve the harvest is to make some wine, here is how:...
When the weather turns hot, many types of greens bolt their seed heads and turn too bitter to eat. Here is a list of several types of greens that can be grown all summer long, and some that even...
Since you can’t eat the leaves of rhubarb, here are two ideas on how to use them–make an aphid spray or use the whole leaf to make a seedling protector! Rhubarb leaves are poisonous...
Skip the expensive fertilizers this year and make your own home-brew, compost tea! Not only is compost tea a highly effective fertilizer, but it is easy to do, cheap, all natural, and won’t...
After much experimenting with different bran muffins, and them often turning out rather dry and blah, this week I made two perfect, moist batches from a variation on this recipe from breakfast.food...
Peas are one of the first vegetables to harvest in the spring, are super easy to grow, and are most delicious fresh off the vine. Here are some of the main considerations and requirements for...
Got a sweet potato? From just one medium sized sweet potato you can easily start 40 or more new plants, or “slips”. It can be sometimes be hard to find sweet potato slips for sale, but...
Pasturized milk is on every shelf, available for ‘safe’ consumption. The FDA regulates no other farmer as tough as milking farms. Because milk is so massively produced it does need to...