Tag Archives | Self Sufficiency
The Dirty Life

“The Dirty Life- A Memoir of Farming, Food and Love” by Kristin Kimball

One of the things that I most enjoyed about The Dirty Life is that it is a story about a real woman in today’s world.  She begins as a savvy New York freelance writer, and winds up as a deeply devoted farm wife.  This journey is not something that she consciously chooses in the beginning, [...]

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Coffee CSA- a Great Deal for Everyone

Buying your coffee directly from the grower with CoffeeCSA makes so much sense, to so many people on so many levels.

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Constructing a Recycled Growing Bed

We’ve created a short presentation of the process used to build our raised garden beds and greenhouse growing bed. This is meant to be an idea generator, not a step-by-step how-to. Hopefully, this will help “out of the box” thinking of how to accomplish this in your garden or backyard! Please let us know what [...]

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Growing Your Salad In A Container Garden

We recently completed our second salad growing bed in our greenhouse, and here’s how we did it! Greenhouse Salad Container Gardening We started the salad growing bed so that we would have fresh salad greens during the Fall, Winter and early Spring when the garden wasn’t growing or things were just coming up. We can [...]

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Heirloom Seeds Give Us Resiliency

There is a lot of talk, writing and thought about self-sufficiency now, mainly due to the partial economic and industrial collapse that we’ve all watched in the past year or so. The thought of being dependent on no one else is appealing, at least in the short run. This is short term thinking, however, without [...]

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