How To Save Your Garden From Japanese Beetles You’ve done all the work to set up your garden. You tilled, sowed, watered, fertilized, and weeded and now your garden is quickly dying. Why? Upon closer examination you find that your beautiful garden is being destroyed by Japanese Beetles. Can the garden be saved? If found …
Grocery Store Grows Its Own Organic Veggies on Rooftop I love this idea! Growing veggies where they are sold, isn’t a new idea. Even gardening on rooftops is an old idea. But for an actual grocery store to take advantage of these old ideas in a new way is brilliant. The concept leaves me with …
Some posts may include affiliate links. 40+ Edible Flowers and How to Use Them Food security is always a concern, or it should be even in times of prosperity. Knowing what around you that is edible is always important as tomorrow can never be for told. What today is a novel edible garnish could be …
Home Canning Meatballs (With Recipe) Canning meat can be an option to storing protein in ways other than jerking or salt curing. This meatball recipe also gives you the convivence of canned and the goodness of homemade. See the recipe and the canning instructions from The Iowa Housewife at the featured link below Home Canned …
DANDELION the “Medical Weed” Bothersome weeds, stir fry veggie, or wine base, the dandelion has been around and used and abused for ever. They are an evasive species so if you’re trying to create a pristine green lawn they can be your nightmare plant. However, if you are a frugal forager they are an easy …
Some posts may contain affiliate links. Fruit Salad Trees: What They Are & How to Grow Them I have never had enough space to maintain both a garden and fruit trees. So when I first heard of a fruit salad trees I had no idea what they were but they certainly peeked my interest. One …
Will There Be Pandemic Related Food Shortages? Remember the panic buying as the stay home orders began to shut down our cities and towns? It’s been almost exactly 3 months (as of the time of writing) since the first verified case here in Washington state and you still can’t beg, barrow, or steal some of …
Safety Advice If You Must Visit the Grocery Store During the Pandemic Unless you were well prepared, a trip to the grocery store will be required during this pandemic stay at home order that the majority of the United States is abiding by. The CDC is recommending that whenever we leave the safety of our …
Safety Tips for Bringing Home Groceries During a Pandemic This is a scenario that is new to this generation. We have never experienced a pandemic in this way before in our life times. Millions of people are on stay at home orders and others in self quarantine. Allowed only to leave their homes for work …
Some posts may contain affiliate links. Should Children Be Taught How To Grow Food As Part Of Their Schooling? Growing food is a bit more complicated than tossing a few seeds in the dirt and adding water now and again. Preppers and homesteaders know this, but does the majority of the population? I am always …
