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6 Tips for Desert Gardening

6 Tips for Desert Gardening

Growing food in the high desert can be an incredible challenge, but I am living proof that you can be successful at it! If you follow a few simple methods to help combat the hot, dry, and windy conditions that are the norm in the southwest, you can be almost guaranteed a bountiful harvest. I am very excited to share…
May 28, 2015
Plans & Transplants

Plans & Transplants

I'm beginning to think that I need to keep better records. Not of the seeds I have or where they're planned to be in the garden or how much is harvested. No, I've gotten pretty good at keeping those records. What I'm not good at tracking is how much time it actually takes to complete a given garden project. I…
May 4, 2015
Weed City (AKA Market Garden – Beginnings)

Weed City (AKA Market Garden – Beginnings)

7,000 square feet. Seven thousand square feet. That's the approximate size of the fenced in Market Garden that's all set up on our brand new homestead and just waiting for us to dig in. That's 15 times the garden bed square footage we had set up throughout our entire urban farm! That's pure potential all wrapped up in a nice little…
April 12, 2015
How to Start Your Homestead

How to Start Your Homestead

I have a bookshelf full of homesteading books, resources, information, and magazines on all kinds of homesteading topics. I have dreamed about the day when we would live on enough acreage that we could easily keep livestock, grow an expansive garden, and maybe even make a bit of income from our excesses. I have practiced countless homesteading skills (canning, milking, seed starting,…
March 18, 2015
Six Acres and a Container Garden?

Six Acres and a Container Garden?

I wouldn't necessarily call it Buyers Remorse, because I am happy with the move we've made from the city to a more rural area... And we didn't buy a new property in our move, we're renters. So, instead I'll call it an Incredibly Steep Learning Curve. Over the course of several years, we'd built all the infrastructure, established all the…
January 16, 2015
2014’s Most Rockin’ Posts

2014’s Most Rockin’ Posts

As we approach the closing of yet another year, I debated on whether or not I should get all deep and introspective on you, my dear readers...you know, go into all of the changes we've seen over the past year...talk about the challenges we faced...the goals that were crossed off the all mighty To-Do list and those that will be…
December 28, 2014