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

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…

Endless Veggies–Growing Vegetables From Scraps

Did you know that certain vegetables can be regrown from their own scraps? It’s super easy and fun to do, and a great project for the kids, too. In a way, it’s like having…

Fredrika Syren
Gardening, Urban Homestead
Feb, 22, 2021
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Our Journey to an Urban Homestead

My family (my husband and our three children) and I live on an “urban homestead.” This term refers to a household that grows, through gardening and livestock, most of the food it consumes. The…

Fredrika Syren
Gardening, Urban Homestead
Oct, 30, 2020
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Why You Should Learn to Grow Your Own Food and Why Kids Should, Too

In this day and age, the easiest thing to do is buy your food from the supermarket. Your children will grow up in that world, too, and carry on what you taught them when…

Fredrika Syren
Gardening, Gardening with Kids
Sep, 11, 2020
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Growing, Preserving and Cooking Carrots

Because our climate here in San Diego allows it, we try growing carrots all year long. It’s a versatile vegetable that can be eaten raw or cooked, and our bunny loves the carrot tops….

Fredrika Syren
Recent Articles
Sep, 04, 2020
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Growing and Eating Dark Leafy Greens

Of all the vegetables we grow in our garden, leafy greens are our favorites. We find them the most useful and most versatile, as well as the vegetables we never seem to grow enough of.

There…

Fredrika Syren
Gardening, Recent Articles, Urban Homestead
Aug, 26, 2020
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DIY Apple Cider Vinegar

Vinegar is used for countless purposes: pickling, pest control, personal and household cleaning, and cooking. But did you know that vinegar, specifically apple cider vinegar (ACV), is also an ancient folk remedy? Hippocrates is said to have prescribed ACV for…

Fredrika Syren
zGreen Mom's Kitchen
Aug, 19, 2020
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