We've reached our final seed giveaway for this Spring, but that means the gardening season will soon be in full swing! Thanks to everyone who has entered the giveaways and supported the seed companies that we have featured this year. Based in Asheville, North Carolina, Sow True Seed offers over 500 open-pollinated, heirloom, GMO-free, and/or organic vegetable, herb, and … [Read more...]
Planning the Sustainable Garden: How Much Will You Grow?
After choosing what to grow, the question is, how much do you want to grow? Do you simply want to grow enough to eat fresh throughout the growing season? Do you plan to can or freeze any for winter meals? Most tomato plants can easily produce twenty pounds of fruit. If you want to make a pasta sauce once a week throughout the year and your recipe calls for a pound of … [Read more...]
Clear Creek Seeds giveaway
Our next seed giveaway for this spring is from Clear Creek Seeds. Don't miss this opportunity to prepare for your spring garden! Clear Creek Seeds offers non-GMO, open-pollinated, raw, untreated heirloom vegetable, flower, and herb seeds. More information about Clear Creek is available in my post from last year. You can order from Clear Creek through their website or by mail … [Read more...]
Southern Exposure Spring Mesclun Collection Giveaway
Southern Exposure Seed Exchange is a 72-acre farm and cooperatively run business in Mineral, Virginia. They sell more than 800 varieties of open-pollinated, organic, and heirloom vegetable, herb, flower, grain, and cover crop seeds, mushroom spawns, and more. Many of their seeds are grown by a network of small farm seed growers. Learn more about Southern Exposure in my post … [Read more...]
Save a Fortune by Starting Your Own Seeds
When a seed costs only pennies and a transplant costs a buck or two, you don't have to be a math wiz to know that you can save big bucks by starting your seeds from scratch. But how exactly do you get started? GMO, conventional, or organic seeds? A lot of people ask if they have to buy organic seeds to avoid those that are genetically modified, and the answer is no. Organic … [Read more...]
Baker Creek Heirloom Seed Collection Giveaway
To continue our series of seed giveaways, we're thrilled to offer a giveaway from Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds. It is always such a delight when their catalog arrives in the mail - it is absolutely stunning! Baker Creek prides themselves on having rare varieties with great flavor and nutrition. As usual, this year's 21st annual catalog is full of colorful heirlooms with … [Read more...]
Renee’s Garden Seed Giveaway
We’re excited to offer another round of seed giveaways this year to get you ready for Spring planting! The first giveaway is from Renee’s Garden, a company based in Felton, California that offers vegetable, herb, and flower seeds, including heirloom, hybrid, open-pollinated, and organic seeds. The owner Renee Shepherd selects the seeds based on their great flavor and strong … [Read more...]
7 Benefits of Gardening with Chickens
I've been intrigued by the idea of gardening with chickens for a while so was excited to attend a presentation about this at The Livestock Conservancy conference by Jim Edrington. Though Jim has worked at The Seed Savers Exchange for many years, he focused on sharing his experiences incorporating chickens in his gardens at home. As you might guess, there are some challenges … [Read more...]
8 Reasons to Grow Your Own Food
Although most people seem excited to learn about our self-reliant lifestyle, every now and then, someone doesn't get it. Or they may think that we do this simply to save money. But the reality is that there are a lot of benefits to growing your own food. Chemical free When you grow your own, you know exactly what was or was not sprayed on it, as well as what was used to … [Read more...]
Celebrating summertime with the best varieties of tomatoes
Reading Epic Tomatoes by Craig LeHoullier took me back to my childhood and enjoying tomato sandwiches with my grandfather during the summertime. Though I've reviewed many books this year, this is one of the most delightful perhaps because of the many delicious-looking photos, descriptions, and the author's personal stories about different tomato varieties. LeHoullier even … [Read more...]
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