Gardening

Homesteading Gardening articles collected over two decades from experienced homesteaders who know what they’re talking about.

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Farmers of Fungi: Growing Mushrooms and Mycorrhizae in Your Vegetable Patch

In the last 40 years, human understanding of fungi, and their role…

Dustin Eirdosh Dustin Eirdosh

Your Medicinal Garden: Ten Herbs to Plant This Spring

Come spring, the nursery catalogs will be arriving in the mail.  All…

Karyn Sweet Karyn Sweet

The Three Sisters Legacy: The Science Behind Companion Planting

There’s nothing quite as frustrating as having some know-it-all tell you why…

Clare Brandt Clare Brandt

Permaculture: The Truly Sustainable Way of Life

What is Permaculture? Permanent agriculture.  A system for feeding and caring for…

Karyn Sweet Karyn Sweet

Bats & Guano: Gifts From the Garden Gods

Say the words feces, scat, feculence, crap, caca, and a shovel-full of…

Alan Ray Alan Ray

Inside a Sharecropper’s Garden: Growing Food in the Inner-city

Birgitt Evans has been gardening since she was a child.  Now a…

Clare Brandt Clare Brandt

Going Full Circle: A Journey Back to Sustainable Agriculture

There are many reasons why people are drawn to the homesteading lifestyle…

Uni Blake Uni Blake

Ruth Stout: The No-Dig Duchess

In the early 1980s, I went to Sussex, England to study small-scale…

Barbara Bamberger-Scott Barbara Bamberger-Scott

How the Ancients Farmed

Mrs. Cro-Magnon just got home with a basket of berries and tubers;…

Catherine Lugo Catherine Lugo

Poor Man’s Greenhouse

Winter has almost set in, and on most homesteads, vegetable production has…

Regina Anneler Regina Anneler

Bowery Farming: An Interview with Co-Founder and CEO Irving Fain

When Irving Fain started Bowery Farms he had a dream; to provide…

Alan Ray Alan Ray

Overwintering Vegetables for Early Spring Harvests

When I first started gardening, as a total greenhorn, I thought that…

Wren Everett Wren Everett