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Experienced homesteaders know that just because the trees go dormant, the hens take a break from laying, and the garden goes fallow it doesn’t mean that you can go into hibernation from December to March. Among the many wintertime tasks ...

One of the ultimate lessons I have picked up in life is that some of the things that I find annoying are in actuality extremely useful. Take, for example, the neighborhood fruit and nut trees, which make a mess on ...

The first day that you bring a fruit tree home from the nursery is an exciting one. Perhaps you’re imagining fresh, delicious fruit throughout the season. Maybe you’re already googling pie or jam recipes. Too often, however, these trees end ...

My first job right out of high school — and one I was destined to work at for a number of years — was becoming the sole employee of a small farm in upstate western New York. Apple orchard country. ...

Off-the-grid homesteaders who grow their own food and who live in the hot and frost-free parts of the country have many more options than their northern counterparts. These benefits include the ability to grow an amazing array of tropical fruits ...

When I was young, my grandmother had a copse of raspberry bushes. The fruit would grow so fat that the drupelets would bleed onto our fingers as we picked them. Grandma made lovely jams and syrups with the berries that ...

There’s something infinitely satisfying about growing your own food. One great thing about growing fruit is that you can eat it straight from the tree. Once planted, you can literally await the “fruits” of you labor, and then enjoy them ...

If you consider fresh fruit to be one of life’s best simple pleasures, you may want to consider establishing your own home orchard. While it does take time to plan and to maintain, a home orchard can reap some significant ...

A lot of virtual ink has been spilled on the subject of survival gardening. Surprisingly, though, little has been used to address the concept of edible landscaping. What is edible landscaping? Edible landscaping is, in simplest terms, the practice of ...

May 2, 2013 Why you need to protect your young fruit trees. The heat is murder (particularly in the south)… literally… on young trees. I think this might help them to make it through their first year… You know… the ...