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How To Save Tomato Seeds

August 18, 2012 in Gardening For Food, Self Sufficiency, slide show self sufficient, Vegetable Gardening by Cathy

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Saving Tomato Seeds is easy peasy tomato SQUEEZY!! :)  Tomato seeds are so easy to save!  MOST tomato plants don’t cross pollinate so you are sure to get a plant that is exactly as the parent plant.  Just remember that you don’t want to use seeds from the tomatoes you buy at grocery stores as these [...]

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Growing COOL Things

January 7, 2012 in Gardening For Food, Just Talking, Self Sufficiency, slide show self sufficient, Vegetable Gardening by Cathy

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I have been a fan of Jamie Oliver for some time now.  Aside from his obvious talent as a down to earth chef and tv personality he has inspired millions to pay attention to the nutritional abuse that is happening in schools across Europe and North America.  I am in awe of his determination, his humanity, his [...]

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How to Build a Composter

April 3, 2011 in Gardening For Food, Self Sufficiency, Vegetable Gardening by Cathy

We decided to build ourselves a homemade composter.  Since this year we are growing a market garden we needed a BIG composter.  One that can handle the tractor.  We have lots of chickens and lots of poop around here so the composter has to be as wide as the tractor bucket. We started off by pounding 6 – 2×4′s [...]