Corn Benefits: Why Grow Corn (Or Why Buy Corn, If You Don’t Plan to Grow It Yourself)? How to Grow Corn Ideal Growing Season(s) for Corn— Corn Germination Temperature and Instructions— Planting Depth for Corn Seeds— Popular Corn Varieties— Corn Pests — Diseases That Commonly Afflict Corn— Is Corn Suitable for Container Gardening?— Container Gardening Read More ...
Build Your Homesteading Skills
Want to learn to cook from scratch? Grow your own vegetables? Raise your own livestock? Whichever homesteading skills you want to build, check out the relevant resources in our homesteading directory -- or find our timeliest content right now by reading our blog, listening to our podcast, taking our courses or signing up for our newsletter.
Gardening
Our gardening pages are subdivided by topic: vegetable gardening, herb gardening, flower gardening and container gardening. However, in real life, our garden is not so neatly divided, because we plant riotously mixed groupings of vegetables, herbs, flowers and containers all into the same garden beds. Although we’re primarily vegetable gardeners, we practice companion planting, and Read More ...
Preserving Food
Root Cellaring Freezing Dehydrating Home Canning Pickling and Fermenting
Livestock
Welcome to our homesteading directory pages on the topic of animal husbandry and raising livestock. Whether you’re hoping to have backyard chickens, flocks of sheep, a family goat, a milk cow, or a herd of them, there are many things to learn. Animal Husbandry Lesson #1: Know and Respect Your Own Limits If you’re a Read More ...