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DIY Stinging Nettle Fertilizer

DIY Stinging Nettle Fertilizer You probably know by now that our family loves stinging nettles. If you have yet to read our previous posts about foraging for nettles and incorporating…

How to Build and Maintain Hot Compost

Composting is an eco-friendly method to transform food scraps into rich fertilizer for your garden, and you can opt for either hot or cold composting. While cold composting…

Fredrika Syren
Composting, Gardening
Mar, 03, 2024
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7 Eco-Friendly Tips for Using Fall Leaves

We had a huge rainstorm last week, and the next day, most of the trees in my garden dropped all their leaves.

With so many leaves on the ground,…

Fredrika Syren
Gardening, Urban Homestead
Oct, 02, 2023
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How To Make Calcium Powder From Eggshells

We grow lots of tomatoes for eating and turning into canned salsa and tomato sauce. The secret to growing healthy tomatoes is calcium powder. Tomatoes rely on calcium…

Fredrika Syren
Gardening, Urban Homestead
Jun, 25, 2023
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The Art of Creating Good Gardening Soil

In order to have plants thrive in a successful vegetable garden, healthy soil is key. The blog organic gardeningexplains that we should ”feed the soil, not the plant” to create a natural soil without the use…

Fredrika Syren
Gardening
Apr, 01, 2021
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The Benefits of Creating Compost Tea

Nourishment for your plants is enhanced by applying mature compost in the form of compost tea, also known as liquid gold.
Finished compost, also known as black gold, not only feeds the good microbes by increasing…

Larraine Roulston
Uncategorized
May, 09, 2019
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Bokashi Composting—From Scraps to Fertilizer

Composting is a great way to reduce your waste load and at the same time create something the earth craves…pure nutrients. On our homestead, we employ four composting methods: worm…

Fredrika Syren
Gardening, Composting
May, 07, 2018
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