Composting

What ever you do this fall, don’t toss those dying hanging baskets and container plants to the curb – instead, recycle and recharge your old potting soil to reuse it …

You might be surprised at just how easy it is to create, grow and maintain an incredible, highly productive organic garden. And, in the process, supply you and your family …

When it comes to self-sufficient living, nothing quite compares to the benefits of raising chickens in your backyard. Our small flock of hens provide us with so much more than …

When it comes to our garden and the food we provide for our family, we like to keep everything natural – and that includes any and all types of fertilizers …

As the Spring season begins – it’s hard to believe we are heading into our 5th growing season at the farm!  One thing we have learned from the past four years …

For those that follow along with our little farm and website – you know how important it is for us to keep things simple and inexpensive – and there is …

As the farm and our website have grown over the course of the last few years – we have had more and more requests from our readers and followers asking …

To put it simply – soil is to vegetable plants what food is to humans. With little or no food – human become sick and would eventually perish. The same …

Compost is a necessity if you want to have great soil and healthy, productive plants.  Along with cover crops, compost is one of the two major components that are critical …

There are few things that can make your garden more successful than compost. Compost, or “Black Gold” as it is so often called, improves soil vitality and structure – and …