The Value of Heirloom Seeds on Your Homestead Homestead Gardening Original post: January 5, 2026 It’s seed-ordering season! Do you plant heirloom seeds? I do, and I love them. Let me share some of the reasons they’ve become a cornerstone of our homestead garden. Why Choose Heirloom Seeds? ● Superior flavor and varietyHeirlooms often deliver […]
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Why Crop Diversity Matters Homestead Gardening Original post: January 4, 2026 Are you ordering seeds for the upcoming growing season? One of the joys of homesteading is the incredible variety of seeds available to us. Unlike large-scale monoculture operations locked into acres of a single crop, we can choose from dozens – or hundreds –
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Growing and Planting Onions from Seed Homestead Garden Original post: January 2, 2022 Last Updated: December 31, 2025 Why would you want to plant onions from seed? Planting and growing onions from seed is easy and a great way to save money on onions. If you use lots of onions for cooking like we do,
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How Does Your Garden Grow? Part 2 of 2 Homestead Garden Planning First published: February 12, 2019 Last Updated: December 9, 2025 Continuing on with how we plan our gardens and using our simple example from Part 1, we know we will need space in our sample garden to grow 7 tomato plants. Once again, refer
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