Seeds 
SEED STARTING TIPS & TRICKS(10)
I’ve been asked countless times how do you know how deep to plant seeds. A simple and very effective way to figure out how deep to plant or how much dirt to cover seeds is …
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NEW SEED SHELF
To be able to get the most from your garden, successive plantings are a must. Yet, doing so is challenging for so many reasons.
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FOOD FOREST
“Air Jordanne” I know, I know enough of the supposedly dwarf pea pictures. But we just couldn’t resist just one last one because now I think they are done growing! Pretty soon these peas will succumb to mildew and become goat food. Peas on Steroids? Remember the 9 foot eggplant that we grew one summer! [...]
(7) TOWER OF “PEA-SA”
Well, these towers ain’t leaning that’s for sure, but can you believe these peas are the Dwarf Gray Sugar Snow Peas that grow to the height of 3 feet! No kidding! Yeah, what’s with that? Farmer Justin’s magic, green thumb, improved soil conditions, the rains, stars? Whatever it is these peas sure aren’t dwarf. The [...]
(12) CABBAGE HEAD HOMESTEADERS
Remember those cabbage patch dolls? Well, I do! All the girls my age had to have them and my grandma got me one waaaay back when. But here on the urban homestead, thanks to our farmers here, we have (er modeled) our very own “homegrown” version. As you can tell, we don’t have cable…. so [...]
(15) THE ATTACK OF GM VEGGIES
First it was corn then soy, rice, cotton, wheat but now GM is entering the world of backyard veggies crops. The first to be introduce is BT Brinjal (otherwise know as Eggplant) On the front lines of this GM veggie invasion is India There’s a fierce battle brewing as they fight to not be the [...]
(0) AUGUST FILM & FOOD NIGHT
How can we survive perhaps the greatest danger we now face – climate change? Global Warming may be a contentious issue for many but there’s no argument – some areas of our planet that were once ‘food bowls’, abundant, fertile and productive land, are now dust bowls where people scratch a living from the dry [...]
(5) FREEDOM GROWS HERE
We’ve been getting back positive feedback from our first foray’s into offering safe, secure (and free) seeds (thanks!) When we visited Freedom Farmer S’s plot on Sunday we were thrilled to see his Freedom Seeds growing so well. The veggies were so beautiful that I had to snap photos of the patch of Ashworth Yellow [...]
(2) BEETS then BRASSICAS – what’s next?
Thanks for one of the Freedom Gardeners for bringing this frightening article to our attention. Pretty soon vegetables could be at risk now that big M has stopped their meddling with rice, corn and soy — looks like swiss chard is threatened with contamination and cabbages are next! BATTLE OVER BEETS Organic seed producer Frank [...]
(4) GROW YER OWN
“There is a myth that there are agricultural societies, and then there are industrial societies and service societies, as if when you become an industrial or service society you don’t need food,” she says. “As we hit climate chaos, as we hit peak oil, assuming that you can get your food from far away and [...]
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