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How to Achieve a Plastic-Free Garden

Is breaking up with plastic hard to do? Once alternatives have been sought and people adopt different habits, it’s really not so difficult after all. For the most part, the…

Grow Your Own Garlic

Between kale, lettuce and potatoes, garlic is one of our favorite vegetable to grow. It’s so easy to grow and the fact that you can eat the garlic greens too makes garlic is a…

Fredrika Syren
Gardening
Jun, 29, 2020
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Layering fruit/vegetable peelings with dry yard trimmings makes a great soil conditioner to enhance your garden. When soil is healthy, the helpful microbes greatly outnumber the harmful ones and keep them under control. Finished compost not only…

Fredrika Syren
Composting, Gardening
Jun, 19, 2020
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Beans, the Climate, Smart Food, and Why You Should Grow Beans

As homesteading vegans, we grow a variety of beans: pole beans, bush beans, fava beans, edamame, chickpeas — and the list goes on. For vegans and meat eaters, beans add a lot of protein…

Fredrika Syren
Gardening, Urban Homestead
May, 27, 2020
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Growing Potatoes, Even with Little or No Space

Growing potatoes is so much fun, and they taste way better than store bought potatoes. Most people believe you need a huge space to grow them, when, as a matter of fact, potatoes grow…

Fredrika Syren
Gardening, Urban Homestead
Apr, 15, 2020
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Vegetables to Grow Indoors

If you do not have a garden or even an outdoor gardening area, you still can grow food — indoors. It is not as easy as growing food outdoors, especially during the winter, but…

Fredrika Syren
Gardening, Urban Homestead
Mar, 19, 2020
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Uses for Leftover Lemon Peel

For our son’s birthday party yesterday, we made lemonade with dozens of lemons from our tree. Afterward, my husband looked at all the leftover lemon peel and asked if there was anything we could use…

Fredrika Syren
Gardening, Urban Homestead
Jan, 23, 2020
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Gardening

How to Achieve a Plastic-Free Garden

Grow Your Own Garlic

Making Compost Tea

Beans, the Climate, Smart Food, and Why You Should Grow Beans

Growing Potatoes, Even with Little or No Space

Vegetables to Grow Indoors

Uses for Leftover Lemon Peel

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