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Urban Backyard Chickens: How to Raise Happy Hens

Urban Backyard Chickens: How to Raise Happy Hens Keeping urban backyard chickens is an increasingly popular way to enjoy fresh eggs, create a natural fertilizer for your garden, and experience the companionship…

Fruit Leather: A Summer Harvest Treat

Summer is the prime time for abundant berries and fruits, and it’s the perfect time to make this homemade fruit leather!

Fruit leather: a summer harvest treat, is a delicious…

Fredrika Syren
Gardening, Gardening with Kids
Oct, 06, 2024
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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 nettles into our diet in…

Fredrika Syren
Gardening, Urban Homestead
Jul, 13, 2024
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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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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…

Fredrika Syren
Gardening, Gardening with Kids
Feb, 04, 2024
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Why You Should Grow Lettuce

Early on, my gardening mentor taught me the wisdom of growing what we eat. One plant we grow and eat abundantly is lettuce. Sometimes we eat large, lettuce-packed salads; other…

Fredrika Syren
Gardening, Urban Homestead
Nov, 19, 2023
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Dehydrate Your Harvest

Dehydrate Your Harvest!

It’s the time of year when everything seems to ripen at once! We have ripe plums, blueberries, apples, and pears right now, and it’s a challenge to harvest and keep these fruits…

Fredrika Syren
Gardening, Urban Homestead
Sep, 17, 2023
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