by John Johnson | Jul 14, 2021 | Food Forest, Videos
Do like to grow artichokes? Consider letting your artichokes go to flower in your food forest garden to help bees and other pollinators. We allow the majority of our artichokes to flower. An artichoke produces huge beautiful purple flowers. Consequently, if you let...
by John Johnson | Jul 14, 2021 | Growing Vegetables, Videos
Our little toddler loves yummy taters and he helped with part of our potato harvest this year. We grow potatoes in a variety of methods. These were a few extra seed potatoes of a red potato variety and Yukon golds that we had after planting our main rows. We tossed...
by John Johnson | Jul 14, 2021 | Growing Vegetables, Videos
We planted a large raised garden bed full of garlic last October. This is our entire year’s supply of garlic. We feed the plants a couple of times during the growing season and kept them watered. We have harvested all of the garlic scapes and it’s time to...
by John Johnson | Jul 14, 2021 | Community Garden, Videos
We harvested a part of a row of potatoes at our community garden plot. This was a mix of dark Norlund red potatoes and Yukon Gold potatoes. We will pull up the rest of the row the next time we back at our plot and have room in the bucket. Potatoes are a great crop to...
by John Johnson | Jul 13, 2021 | Community, Sustainability
Finding Free or Nearly Free Resources in Your Community Leveraging free or nearly free resources is a smart thing for all urban homesteaders. There are countless resources to access in your local community. Although buying new may be the right choice for many...
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