Compost for a vegetable garden can make or break your vegetables. A good compost will improve your garden tremendously, improving not just the yield, but the taste of your vegetables as well. What is Compost? Compost is the natural process of organic material, such as food waste, leaves, and animal manure, that has decomposed. Once…
Let’s go over how to start asparagus from seed. This requires more patience, but will save you money. Asparagus is one of the hardy perennial vegetables that you should have planted all over the homestead. To get your own asparagus patch going, it is actually fairy easy. Time is really all you need. It will…
In these step by step instructions, learn how to use a pressure canner for beginners so that your food preservation can really level up. Many people are nervous to use a pressure canner. There are stories of how someone knew someone back in the day and the pressure canner blew up the kitchen. Let’s put…
When early spring comes around, it is the perfect time to harvest dandelion flower heads and use those to make a healing salve. Learn how to make dandelion salve by following these easy steps. Don’t think of fresh dandelions as a pesky weed. A cup of dandelion flowers can be used to make homemade salves…