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Garden Planner: Design Your Best Garden Ever By Staff -
How to Make Hydrosols on the Stovetop
Learn how to use a simple stovetop method to make fragrant rose water that can be used for a refreshing spritz on a hot day. -
Homemade Witch Hazel Toner
Extract witch hazel bark’s naturally astringent properties to use in a refreshing and natural facial toner recipe. -
How to Grow Your Own Shiitake Mushrooms
This blog post gives instructions on how to grow your own shiitake mushrooms on logs in about six months.
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Understanding Plant Cell Components By Hannah Kincaid -
Rue: The Forgotten Herb
Rue is an ancient herb trying to stay relevant in the modern world. Learn the history and usefulness of this forgotten herb to keep it alive. -
Homemade Comfrey Plantain Salve
A brief history of these wonderful healing herbs and how to make your own infused oil and salve. -
Chayote Growing and Profile
Learn about a Mesoamerican native and versatile squash-like fruit; that is becoming popular in U.S. garden plots and nutritious meals while learning chayote growing from fruit.
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Food
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How to Make Hard Apple Cider
Brewing hard cider from nonalcoholic, or “sweet” cider, is a simple process, and the inebriating end product is as delicious as it is intoxicating. Here are the steps you’ll follow to make hard cider of your own. -
Successfully Cure Potatoes and Squash
Cure and store fall potatoes and squash for a healthy harvest that’ll last well into winter. -
Making Pure Vanilla Extract
When it comes to dessert, nothing says “mmmm” like the subtle flavour and aroma of vanilla. Forget the bottled stuff at the grocery store, real or artificial – neither compare to the unbelievably fragrance & taste imparted by the real deal, made right in your kitchen. Two ingredients and two minutes is all you need (really!) – I guarantee you will never go back to store-bought. -
Ukrainian Christmas Cake Recipe
Try out this delicious Ukrainian cake recipe—includes poppy seeds, walnuts, and dates—resulting in a vegan Christmas dish.
Organic Gardening
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Seed Starting with Soil Blocks & Recipes
Skip the seed-starting pots this spring, and instead plant your seeds directly in compressed blocks of soil that move easily from grow lights to garden. -
How to Get Rid of Ticks and Prevent Lyme Disease
Practice these tick prevention strategies on your property and in your home to help prevent Lyme disease from affecting the health of your household. -
The Sky’s the Limit: Vertical Gardening
Make efficient use of your garden space by growing vertically, as well as traditionally. -
Lessons in Intercropping
Intercropping is a fascinating way to garden. Learn about our mistakes and what we learned from them.
Plant Profiles
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Chayote Growing and Profile
Learn about a Mesoamerican native and versatile squash-like fruit; that is becoming popular in U.S. garden plots and nutritious meals while learning chayote growing from fruit. -
How to Make a Flower Press
Build a simple, wooden flower press to preserve the color and integrity of your favorite plants. -
Navajo Wild Plants
In American Southwest Indian traditions, like for the Navajo and Hopi tribes, wild plants from the region served a variety of purposes and were of great importance. -
When Is a Flower an Inflorescence?
Learn how to tell the difference between various flower structures, from catkins to corymbs.


