I was looking for some good freeze-dried or dehydrated products with a long shelf life that would add both great nutritional value and some satisfying taste to my campsite recipes. I wasn’t expecting to find fillet mignon flakes, but I ...
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Save Salt To Survive
When you begin planning for a life off the grid or start thinking as a survivalist, you tend to focus on the bigger, more obvious items like bottled water or dried food. However, our ancestors made it through centuries of ...
Read More »Blueberries: God’s Perfect Little Fruit
I’m constantly humbled by the whole of God’s creation. As a city-born, city-raised girl, country life and country living were foreign to me. Now I’m in my late 40s, and you couldn’t pull me kicking and screaming back to the ...
Read More »Those Nasty Little Bugs And Diseases In Container Gardens
While container gardening is relatively clean since you’re growing your vegetables in a more controlled environment, with cleaner soil and more personal attention than a vegetable garden outside, it’s still possible for your plants to suffer from insect damage or ...
Read More »A Garden in a Tire!
There is a new wrinkle on the old “Victory Garden” that was so popular in the U.K., the U.S., Canada and Germany during the world wars. Private homes, public parks, and even the occasional balcony served to boost morale and ...
Read More »Some Surprising Super Foods
Everyone knows that acai berries, broccoli and watercress are full of the vitamins and minerals you need, but what about the foods you truly enjoy, the ones you’re not supposed to have? New studies show that the forbidden egg may ...
Read More »Garden Prep for the Beginner Gardener
First-time gardeners – it’s time to prepare that plot of dirt for your garden if you haven’t already! Of course it depends upon where you live as well. In the South, you’re behind already if you haven’t started working the ...
Read More »Is Container Gardening for You?
For many of us, having enough dirt or time to plant a garden is a pipe dream. We live in apartment buildings or rent houses that barely have enough back yard to hold a barbecue grill. We work long hours ...
Read More »The Birds and the Bees
Last time I talked about beneficial birds for use in gardening. Now let’s look at beneficial insects – more specifically, bees. Before you get out your fly swatter, you may want to reconsider your attitude toward this necessary element of ...
Read More »What’s a “Beneficial Bird”?
I come from a long line of farmers, although my dad didn’t follow in his father’s footsteps, opting instead for a life of military service. Raised an Army brat, my knowledge of vegetables and fruits was limited to what I ...
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