In our journey to becoming self sufficient, there are numerous skills we need to learn along the way.  We currently live in a house in a little neighborhood with every store imaginable within ten minutes.  We don’t need to have many skills.  When we decided that we were leaving this …

If you are going to start a permaculture garden you need to have something more permanent than annual vegetables. Permaculture is not planting vegetables every single year. It is setting up a bed one year and harvesting every year. This means that you need perennial vegetables. Vegetables that come back …

Now that your lasagna garden is all set up you have all these leaves leftover because you went overboard collecting them. This is a perfect time to start a a compost pile. Don’t get too lazy and just throw the leaves in a pile somewhere though, it could make extra …

Setting up your own lasagna garden is easy and can be done completely for free. The entire job took me about a day all together. There was a little bit of collecting also involved, but the piles of stuff didn’t even sit for very long. So here’s how to do …

I’m sure you are aware how wonderful compost is for your garden.  For some people, including myself, there is just not enough room in your yard to have enough compost piles to feed your whole garden.  So why not just turn your whole garden into a compost pile? “Lasagna gardening” or …

Now that we know we want, how do we get it? I want to have a home and farm out in the woods and I currently live in a house in town with a small garden. The first step is to learn everything that you possibly can before you dive …