Month: September 2017
Chicken Tractor
Posted onA chicken tractor is composed of a flock of chickens with a mobile coop and a mobile electric fence. The chickens scratch up the weeds and fertilize the soil preparing it for planting another garden or expanding a garden. The advantage is that you get close to truly free range eggs and the chickens get […]
Soft/Semi-hardwood Propagation
Posted onHere is a cheap and easy way to root plant cuttings and multiply your plants in a matter of a single growing season. This should work with most softwood and semi-hardwood cuttings such as currants, gooseberries or flower shrubs like Forsythia etc. Herbaceous plants can also be propagated in this way. The pictures have basic […]
Temperate zone vegetables will not go to seed on the equator due to daylight hours.
Posted onPurple sprouting broccoli is cold hardy to -17C
Posted on97% of the worlds water is salty, of the 3% – 75% is ice and 11% is ground water
Posted onQuote by Geoff Lawton
Harvest and Homestead Gallery
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Posted onThere is also a video a few swarms of starlings taking off under this gallery. Please note that new pictures will be added to all galleries on an ongoing basis, so please check back every once in a while.