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Peppers Can Be Stubborn! The nights are getting colder, yet you still have dozens of immature peppers on the vine, taking their sweet time to ripen. And unlike tomatoes, you can’t pick them and ripen them indoors so easily… Well, in today’s Garden Quickie, I got 3 ways for you to ripen those peppers faster…
This summer has been a hot one! Record temperatures, drought, and many severe conditions still lingering around Canada, the US, and abroad. Now, more than ever, its the little tips and tricks that can keep our garden humming along, with the promises of harvests up until fall! Individual Episode Links: Episode 81 – Fertilizing Peas:…
Growing Potatoes Indoors? Can it be done? Yes, it most certainly can. Should we though? Well, that’s what we aim to find out today in Part 3, the final video in our series of How To Grow Potatoes Indoors. This is a 3-part video series where we take regular grocery store potatoes, wash and chit…
Summer Is In Full Swing! I love this time of year because the garden is just massive and the harvests have already started. Early crops are giving bounty daily and the larger fruiting ones are well on their way. To help you guys along your way, here’s episodes 71 to 80 of Volume 8 of…
In this video, I share with you one of the best gardening and self-sufficiency books I have ever read for growing vegetables, fruit, and living sustainably. Liz’s YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/LizZorab Go here to get Birdies Raised Garden beds (featured in the video) in the USA: https://shop.epicgardening.com/ and use SSME2020 for a 5% discount. In Australia,…
Broccoli: Cartoon trees full of GOODNESS! What’s not to like?! Broccoli is a powerhouse of antioxidants, vitamins and fibre. It comes in all sorts of shapes and colours and each variety can be sown and harvested at different times, meaning you will have a something tasty to pick all year round…if you know how! Ben…
Growing Potatoes Indoors. Why not? The long-awaited Part 2 of the 3-part series where we take regular grocery store potatoes, sprout them, and plant them under grow lights indoors. We’re doing all that in this episode, PLUS we are building the best indoor, customizable potato growing bed that has ever existed, LOL! Join in on…
Come along with us as we see our new manufactured home for the first time! The excavators also started working on our property finally. This fun filled day also includes us grinding our first deer we harvested and processed on our property! Thank you for watching our channel and following along with our homesteading journey!…
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That time when the sandgrains of the Sahara Desert turned green (of envy that is…) ■ VLOG #1 ▪NEW Merch @ Redbubble https://www.redbubble.com/people/Toxandria/shop?asc=u ▪NEW Merch @ Teespring https://teespring.com/en/stores/toxan… ♡☆♡ Thank you all for your support ☆♡☆ https://paypal.me/toxandria You want your homestead not only to be practical, but also beautiful, right? That’s exactly what we are…
Why Should We Bother To Fall Garden? With the summer shutting down, isn’t it better to let our gardens go dormant and give our soils a much-needed rest? No no no no no no my friends. Planting and maintaining a fall garden is one of the best things you can do! Let me show you…
Subscribe to my 2nd channel: https://bit.ly/2WiHbw4 I wanted to give you all an update on the new Epic Urban Homestead as I’ve been slammed filming the TV show (so excited to show you all). There’s a LOT going on, and I’m documenting as much as I can, but once things calm down we’ll be back…
When there is a frost coming, it can mean the end of the vegetable garden, but it doesn”t have to! These are the 5 steps that I take to keep the harvests coming all fall and to keep me in fresh veggies till Christmas, even here in my zone 5 Canadian garden Step 1 Keep…
Serina and her gardening assistants are planting up their first seedlings of the year. After waiting all winter to gather together the seeds, soil, and trays, I’m excited to be finally starting in on our first year farming! It makes it feel like it is spring. We planted up 10 trays in total, of peppers,…
This was a weekend filled with birth and fresh new life! Today I’m sharing some footage our the newest baby goats on our farm right as they were born. Our Instagram: www.instagram.com/roots_and_refuge Our Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rootsandrefuge/ My Infrequently updated blog: www.thehodgepodgedarling.blogspot.com My Articles in Do South Magazine:http://dosouthmagazine.com/?s=jessica+sowards Our Music is by our friend Daniel Smithhttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvBpcMe9OjXGnjLgPuLGQPw ………………………………………
Our Instagram: www.instagram.com/roots_and_refuge Our Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rootsandrefuge/ My Infrequently updated blog: www.thehodgepodgedarling.blogspot.com My Articles in Do South Magazine:http://dosouthmagazine.com/?s=jessica+sowards Our Music is by our friend Daniel Smithhttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvBpcMe9OjXGnjLgPuLGQPw …………………………………… Email Us: rootsandrefuge@yahoo.com To drop us a line: PO Box 850 Vilonia, AR 72173Greenstalk Planter: This is an affiliate link, use the code ROOTS10 to receive $10 off: http://lddy.no/6xhd…
Follow Our Friends: Wholesome Roots (Our hosts in this vlog): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRFL-VU0wM9JZDCulQPDp4g The Grateful Sunites (Maker of my awesome hat): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTINQRkB83O0uzSTeXYm1FQ Big Bear Homestead (Where we will be live 12/15): https://www.youtube.com/user/bigbearhomestead Our Instagram: www.instagram.com/roots_and_refuge Our Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rootsandrefuge/ My Infrequently updated blog: www.thehodgepodgedarling.blogspot.com My Articles in Do South Magazine:http://dosouthmagazine.com/?s=jessica+sowards Our Music is by our friend Daniel Smith…
What is the draw to farmlife and the idea of living off the land? For us, it’s mostly about food. And not just having some of the best and freshest food for our table, but our beliefs about a sustainable food system, and philosophies about the kind of world we would like to live in…
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Channels Appearing in this Vlog (Go Subscribe!) : Pratt Family Homestead: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgXT9h0FLOHAabX-Gc2O0zg Micro Farm Starter: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRO87g_4li-Y9FsKQLa2MUg White House on the Hill: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfuEu0ff9Yy_oA5U21C5Stw MIGardener: https://www.youtube.com/user/MIgardener Willow Creek Homestead: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0pDpfSY9Efh69gTu2Wdm-A MamaGrows: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYlTfugHN3Rdj0yUYe9LirQ 180 Degrees from Average: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaCQxdCLdmSAwsfl1OpVPlA The Farm on Quail Hollow: Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCB2BKzY2HgpTEgYeba78KHA Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thefarmonquailhollow/ Our Instagram: www.instagram.com/roots_and_refuge Our Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rootsandrefuge/ My Infrequently updated blog: www.thehodgepodgedarling.blogspot.com…
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This video VLOG gives an acreage and channel update of the tasks needed to be done and our vision for Self Sufficient Me on our organic permaculture homestead. Support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/selfsufficientme Help support the Channel and buy a T-shirt/Merchandise from our Spreadshirt shop: https://goo.gl/ygrXwU Shop on Amazon for plants: https://bit.ly/2yRFNGQ Shop for plants…
In this video, I demonstrate what size leg ring for quail I use and also chat more about breeding Coturnix quail and how useful leg rings can be when determining ago or bloodline of the flock. Help support the Channel and buy a T-shirt/Merchandise from our Spreadshirt shop: https://goo.gl/ygrXwU Shop on Amazon USA for quail…
This was a shocking success! I didn’t spill soap everywhere, the soap hardened and I was able to cut it, and the layers looked nice and clean. Even the colours turned out nice and bright like I wanted. I’m not quite at beautiful soap yet, but with my fifth batch finished I’m at least not…
As I learn to make homemade cold process soap, my second lesson is to add color and scent to the soap batter. And it was a lot more simple than I guessed. DIY soap is so much fun. The recipes and directions to learn soap making are all in this book which I highly reccomend:…
Feel free to watch the whole video or skip forward to the following discussion topics… 1:14 – Optimism: I start by showing our corn crop and chat about why I’m feeling optimistic for the new year and why we (gardeners/self-sufficient people are often optimists) & so we should be. Show climbing spinach and Jerusalem artichokes.…
My Story, How to Homestead & Organic Gardening SAVED My family.. Learn to grow ( build ) soil with me. Homesteading income for beginners is what you make it to be…
