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If a freeze is coming and you have unripe tomatoes on the vines, dig them up, move them into your garage or someplace sheltered and hang them up to ripen on the vine. You should also be harvesting roots in the fall as well.

Tomato seeds are best saved when fermented first

An easy way to preserve your tomato crop

Mullein, a good respiratory herb to have around

Vegan, no refined sugar, no dairy snack and they are easy to make and taste good for that quick snack!

SCOBYs requiring feeding to keep them alive

This is where you can customize and be creative when you flavor kombucha!

SCOBY - Symbiotic Culture of Bacteria and Yeast

Identifying Ephedra viridis and its medicinal benefits

Not a popular medicinal plant but very useful as an antispasmodic

Setting up a seed starting station is easy and inexpensive

“How much you can learn when you fail determines how far you will go into achieving your goals.” ― Roy Bennett

This is an annual chore for us

Starting seeds is easy but takes a bit of research on when and what to start. Doing charts helps you keep track.

We use a mixture between hard and soft wood

Are you prepared for the electricity to go out?

If bees had to winterize themselves, how would they do it?