4 ways to preserve your harvest without canning
You've just harvested your garden, and you're now surrounded by more homegrown produce than you can possibly eat before it all goes bad. Canning might be the most obvious solution, but let's face it: it's not the easiest task.
Supplement Your Food Supply With Your Local Farmer's Market
Many of us are not in a position to grow everything we eat. But if you want to shorten your personal supply chain, here's how to supplement what you grow with food from your local farmer's market. Yet another way to build a self-reliant, locally acqu
Weed-free gardening: 4 tips for effective weed control
Weeds are a gardener's worst nightmare. For starters, they compete with plants for nutrients and water. Weeds can also overrun a garden if left unchecked. As such, weeds can cause plants to wither or stunt their growth.
Tips for conserving water on your homestead
Water conservation is important regardless of whether you're a homesteader or not. But it's doubly critical if you're running a homestead because you have other things to spend water on, such as irrigating crops and keeping farm animals hydrat
Bill Gates' Scary Recipe for How to Feed the World
If Bill Gates has his way, the food in our future will little resemble what's on our plates today. It will be replaced by a menu of GMOs, fake lab-made "meat' and artificial cheese -- all made with patented technologies from which he'll make
Make Your Own Compost (JOSH'S EASY METHOD
Composting can seem like a mystery. Some people throw everything in a pile and let it break down over time, on the other spectrum, some folks get very technical with ratios, temperature and timing.
Backyard Independence
It's nice that most of us can now buy food again while showing our faces, again. But the past going-on-two-years ought to have taught us what could happen again.
How to Start Growing Your Own Food | What to Focus on First
Whether you're a beginner vegetable gardener or know someone how is just starting out, it is important that the right path is chosen. In this video I outline how to start growing food if you are new to vegetable gardening by knowing what to focus on
The Urban Farm
The Urban Farm is Your Go-To Resource for Online Food-Growing Education. Through our courses, classes, and podcasts, we can help you gain the understanding, the confidence, and the inspiration to grow your own food.
Our 10-Acre Survival Homestead (2020 PROOF)
2020, rumors of a virus in China. Soon, lockdowns were spreading across the globe and trouble was coming to America. Our homestead was about to be tested. Watch how we thrived. Now, Do this Yourself here (free): http://bit.ly/HomesteadCrashCourse
Nebraska retiree uses earths's heat to grow oranges in snow
Winter temperatures in Alliance, Nebraska can drop to -20°F (the record low is -40°F/C), but retired mailman Russ Finch grows oranges in his backyard greenhouse without paying for heat. Instead, he draws on the earth's stable temperature (around 52
Raising Pigs for Better Soil & Even BETTER Bacon
All about raising pigs in the woods using regenerative practices with Mayfield Pastures in Decatur TN run by Charles Mayfield. This farm is a diversified animal pasture operation raising cattle, chickens, pigs, and turkeys. Regenerating soil and grow
Grow REAL FOOD by Mimicking Nature
A tour of Jared's Real Food permaculture market farm discussing his systems and techniques and how he mimics nature to grow superior food.
DO HERITAGE HOGS TASTE BETTER THAN COMMERCIAL HOGS?
...and 9 other things I learned butchering pigs. Today I share 10 things I learned from butchering my first heritage hogs, and help answer the question DO HERITAGE HOGS TASTE BETTER THAN COMMERCIAL ONES?
My Well Broke The Day Before Thanksgiving
My well broke the day before thanksgiving and I did a ton of research to try and fix it myself but in the end needed the professionals. I had a completely new system put it as mine was 20 years old and damaged. Learn some well basics and what it's li