Farm Update: In the Garden

​​Pictures and commentary from our garden​, ​a super-simple recipe for banana milkshake (simple only if you don’t count the steps that bring the milk to the kitchen)​, and a brief mention of one useful thing to do with your egg whites when you only need the yolks.

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​​1 Garden Meal per Day: Simple Strategy, Abundant Benefits

The best way to get more effective at growing your own food is to make it super easy to eat something directly from your garden on a daily basis. Here are 5 categories of low-maintenance food plants (or plant parts) you might have been overlooking, and strategies for using them to build more food sovereignty into your life.

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Building Ecosystems as a Side-Effect of Growing Food

This post uses a pumpkin patch to illustrate how interrelated elements in a vegetable garden, an orchard, or any living system, are healthier and happier than isolated fragments of life existing alone.

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Raising Pigs – New Piglets

Why we buy piglets rather than breeding our own; preparing for their arrival and minimizing the stress of their transition; what to feed them; a few thoughts on choosing heritage breeds versus modern breeds.

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5 Cut and Carry Goat Fodder Plants that Poultry, Pigs, Cattle and People can also eat

This article lists 5 plants for a cut and carry goat fodder system, that also serve lots of other needs as well.

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8 Abundant Fodder Forest Plants, & How to Use Them

8 of my favorite multi-purpose fodder-and-food plants, and some of the ways I use them.

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