Grow & Tend

Is your garden not thriving? Do you fear you may have accidentally poisoned it? There is hope! Here's the story of how we accidentally destroyed - and then healed - our garden soil. This video and article are filled with practical tips to repair or remediate damaged soil as well as advice on how to avoid this experience all together.

Kevin and Julie join their friend Nick, a wildlife professional, to build a predator prevention fence. This fencing style is cost effective and manageable without fancy equipment. We walk you through the build and special features. Then we go into detail about why this design has proven to be the best for keeping your crops and livestock safe from wildlife such as bears, cougars, bobcats, raccoons, and coyotes.

We find this often under-utilized skill can not only boost your homesteading game, but change your life! In this video we will introduce you to the first tip in the outdoors and wildlife category of our homesteading fundamentals framework: notice your surroundings.

In this video we will introduce you to the first tip in the grow and tend category of our homesteading fundamentals framework: shop by the seasons.

Are you looking for a simple, cost effective, low maintenance way to prevent snails and slugs from eating your garden? I’ve found a method that works - and you don’t even need to kill them!

A step-by-step guide to planting tomatoes in containers. First we'll go in a field trip to get our tomato plants and then I'll show you how I plant them in containers for maximum abundance.

Perennials are amazing because you plant them once and they continue to grow for years to come. But to help ensure they continue to provide abundantly, you want to plant them in a good way. 

Growing delicious strawberries is easy, even if you don’t have a garden! In this post Julie walks you through how to prep and plant bare root strawberries in containers.

We have two goals on our homestead- to produce food for ourselves, and to improve habitat for wildlife. Three evergreen huckleberry plants are our most recent contribution to the latter.

We are taking soil blocks to the next level with the 4” blocker tool. Come learn all about soil blocks and how they can entertain while also helping you grow an abundance of food.

We swore we’d never get a plastic portable greenhouse. But now that we’ve got one, was it worth it?

Julie and Kevin demonstrate how to start seeds using soil blocks and explain why they went potless.

Join Julie as she walks you through our worm bin set up and harvesting castings.

Have you struggled with keeping wildlife like deer and rabbits out of your garden? In this video Kevin shares strategies for keeping animals out of our raised bed and container garden by thinking like an animal when constructing a fence.