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Farming: How to get started growing your own food
Over the past couple of years, I have received several requests from various people about information on how to get started growing one’s own food. While there is no foolproof way that I know of, there are all kids of places someone can start, but I will share several things that helped me. A few […] Continue reading
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Tagged books, Choices, Farming, Gardneing, getting started, magazines, raising your own food, Resources
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Farming: Figure it out
Let’s get something out of the way: growing food to feed yourself is not rocket science. Now, I understand that in the last half of the 20th century, a lot of rocket science found its way into growing food, and I think that fact is responsible for so many of the problems we face in […] Continue reading
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Tagged challenges, Choices, Farming, figuring it out, food independence, gardening, Gardneing, goals, Lessons, revolutions, you can do it
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Farming: Broadforking, gardening, and growing your own food, expanded and refined
Earlier this week, I discussed the idea of using a broadfork as a method for tilling the ground instead of using a tiller and and why this method is superior to traditional tilling. Of course, this method still has its own related expenses and may seem like a daunting investment of resources and time to […] Continue reading
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Tagged challenges, Choices, Experiments, Farming, food production, gardening, Gardneing, Independence, Self-sufficiency, self-sustainment
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Farming: What’s your excuse for not growing your own food
I’ve heard most of them already: it’s too hard, too expensive, takes too much time, takes too much space, etc. The worst excuses run along the lines of why should I grow my own food when I can pay someone else to grow it for me. Of course, all of these excuses are worth far less […] Continue reading
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Tagged Farming, gardening, Gardneing, growing your own food, Self-sufficiency
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Farming: Broadforking and policulture
Over the winter, I came across an interesting concept while reading Eliot Coleman‘s Four Season Harvest: the idea of using a broadfork to loosen soil instead of a tiller to grind it. As it turns out–and anyone who has played in the dirt for any length of time probably already knows this–what we call “top […] Continue reading
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Tagged broadfork, Experiments, Farming, gardening, Gardneing, policulture, soil
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