Category: Home Production

Correctly stored dry beans can remain edible for 25 to 30 years, but will they sprout? The ability to grow a new crop of dry beans from stored beans would substantially increase our self-reliance. We...

Growing my own fresh fruits and vegetables is one of my favorite pastimes. I love to harvest the sweet bounty of my labors. Sometimes growing your own food is a requirement for survival and not just...

We live in a crazy world, and anything that you can do to produce even a small amount of the food you eat can be a great benefit to your food security. Growing greens inside your home is one way to...

Living on a little homestead, we have all kinds of adventures. My least favorite adventure is having to deal with the skunks that love our chicken eggs. Chickens are highly valuable to us and worth...

I grow an abundance of culinary and medicinal herbs on our little homestead. After years of experimenting, Jonathan designed the perfect simple dryer where I can easily air dry my herbs. Why air...

We had a late frost warning in mid-June, which is well past our average spring frost date. We planted all of our frost-sensitive plants in the garden weeks ago. Suddenly, we were scrambling to...