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Companion Planting can be a confusing business. It takes a while to get your head around companion plant combinations that work and don't work together. Some plants work better with others and some are a terrible combination and they both struggle. Here are some well known combinations that work and you should aim for, or don't and you should avoid.

Vegetable Garden Companion Planting Chart for vegetables and herbs

Automatic watering systems take the worry out of watering the animals. An auto waterer can last for several days and it keeps rabbits and chickens from making the water dirty or tipping it out. To make this automatic waterer I used a few things that I had laying around, but you could easily replace these with things you have or can make.

DIY Rabbit Watering System: How to Build an Automatic Water System for Rabbits for Less than $5

Colony rabbits do best living in dirt, meat rabbits enjoy being able to live the natural way. Find out the surprising benefits to allowing your rabbits to burrow in the dirt.

7 Surprising Health Benefits to Allowing Rabbits to Burrow in Dirt

On of the challenges going plastic free is freezing meat without plastic, How to freeze meat without plastic is a real challenge, but I found a solution!

How to Freeze Meat without Plastic: Freezing meat without freezer bags

Simple and affordable seed raising table ideas. Can be used as a heated propagation table for growing plants from cuttings, or germinating seeds for the vegetable garden. #piwakawakavalley

Building a DIY Heated Propagation Table and Seed Bed for CHEAP

Grow food from scraps that you would usually throw away with these handy kitchen hacks. Easy to grow foods that you can try to grow at home #piwakawakavalley

20 Fruits or Vegetables that You can Grow from Scraps

Knowing what to plant in your garden in September is very helpful for planning your garden. This is also what people in the Southern hemisphere should plant in March!

What to Plant in your Fall Vegetable Garden in September (or March)

10 medicinal herbs and their uses

10 Medicinal Plants and Their Uses: Easy to Grow Medicinal Herbs that will Super-Size your First Aid Kit.

Make your own beeswax wraps as an eco-friendly alternative to clingfilm or plastic wrap. This recipe uses jojoba oil and beeswax to make a nice clingy wrap.

How to Make Beeswax Wraps with Jojoba Oil and Tree Resin (with Video)

Not all fruit is sold in the store. Here are 10 delicious fruits that you can grow in your backyard that are not available commercially! Perfect for growing in a food forest or orchard #homesteads #urbanhomesteading #gardening #piwakawakavalley

10 Delicious Foods you can Grow at Home that you Can’t Buy in the Store

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