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  • About Us
  • Articles
    • Animals
      • Rabbits
      • Chickens
      • Goats
      • Beekeeping
      • Pigs
    • Garden
      • Herbal Academy
      • Beginner Gardening Course
      • Monthly Planting Guide
      • Resources + Information
      • ‘How to grow’ series
      • Seasonal Eating + Growing
      • Food Forest Gardening
    • From Scratch Food
      • Sourdough
      • Dehydrating
      • Preserving
      • Fermenting
      • Recipes
      • Woodstove Cooking
    • Homestead Anywhere
      • Join the Revolution!
      • 33 Traditional Skills
      • Books Every Homesteader Should Own
    • Green Living
      • Plastic Free Gifts – Ideas for all ages!
      • Herbal Academy
      • Our Plastic Free Journey
    • Home & Finance
      • Start a Blog
      • Frugal Living
      • Make Your Own
        • Soap, Skin Care and Cleaning products
        • Craft
        • DIY
    • Christmas
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Gardening and Permaculture

Permaculture is a system of design and gardening that is quite unique. We are trying to embrace the permaculture principles as best we can and apply them to our little homestead in New Zealand. Follow along with out journey.

See also: Beginner Garden Series | Garden Calendar | Garden Course | Seasonal Eating and Growing | Herbs | Vegetable Gardening |

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When To Pick Radishes

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Why Aren’t My Tomatoes Turning Red?

A good compost pile can be a great source of nutrients for your garden. A bad compost pile can be a stinky, slimy disaster. Below is a list of 35 examples of what not to put in compost piles or bins. 

35 Examples of what not to put in compost

Easy DIY Insect Repellent – Totally Natural, Effective Sandfly Repellent

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Growing Oca (Oxalis tuberosa or New Zealand Yam)

Food forest plants

The Ultimate Guide to Growing Mashua (Tropaeolum tuberosum)

Growing your own food is brilliant, and adding chickens to your backyard improves your self sufficiency and resilience. But how do you protect your garden from the chickens? Protecting the garden from free range hens is a really common problem for most backyard chicken owners! Chickens love to look for their own food, to dig and scratch and dust bathe in bare soil. Not to mention snack on fresh young green plants. 

Protecting the garden from Chickens: How to keep hens from destroying the garden

how to prune fruit trees in winter in your backyard orchard. Pruning apple, pear, apricot, peach, plum and nectarine trees in to a vase or goblet shape is easy with these pruning tips and guides, video included.

How to prune fruit trees in winter in your backyard orchard – Apple, peach, plum, apricot

How to start peppers indoors (with video)

How to start tomatoes indoors (with video)

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