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Growing your own food and homesteading in your own backyard with vegetable gardening, chickens, permaculture and home brewing.
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Sunday May 07, 2023
Sunday May 07, 2023
Chicken feed can be really expensive but there are a few ways we can reduce how much we use to make it stretch further.
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How do you use woodchips? Let me know and connect with other misfit gardeners and homesteaders: Join the Facebook Group
Always ensure to operate safely. All projects are purely “at your own risk” and are for information purposes only. As with any project, unfamiliarity with the tools, animals, plants, and processes can be dangerous. Posts, podcasts, and videos should be read and interpreted as theoretical advice only and are not a substitute for advice from a fully licensed professional.
Sunday Apr 23, 2023
Sunday Apr 23, 2023
Let's talk about how we can use woodchips in a no-till garden bed and be successful!
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How do you use woodchips? Let me know and connect with other misfit gardeners and homesteaders: Join the Facebook Group
Always ensure to operate safely. All projects are purely “at your own risk” and are for information purposes only. As with any project, unfamiliarity with the tools, animals, plants, and processes can be dangerous. Posts, podcasts, and videos should be read and interpreted as theoretical advice only and are not a substitute for advice from a fully licensed professional.
Sunday Apr 16, 2023
Sunday Apr 16, 2023
Early spring means lots of vegetables to get sowing in the garden and carrots are a classic cool-weather crop! In this episode, we dig into growing carrots from seed and saving your own carrot seed to use in your gardening seasons to come!
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What is your favorite carrot? Let me know and connect with other misfit gardeners and homesteaders: Join the Facebook Group
Always ensure to operate safely. All projects are purely “at your own risk” and are for information purposes only. As with any project, unfamiliarity with the tools, animals, plants, and processes can be dangerous. Posts, podcasts, and videos should be read and interpreted as theoretical advice only and are not a substitute for advice from a fully licensed professional.
Sunday Apr 02, 2023
Sunday Apr 02, 2023
Just as tomatoes are a gateway plant to growing a garden, chickens are a gateway to keeping homestead livestock even in the suburbs! With many cities now allowing chicken keeping in a backyard setting, in this episode, we're talking about permaculture and chickens, chicken breeds, and chicken boredom busters.
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What is your favorite breed of chicken? Let me know and connect with other misfit gardeners and homesteaders: Join the Facebook Group
Always ensure to operate safely. All projects are purely “at your own risk” and are for information purposes only. As with any project, unfamiliarity with the tools, animals, plants, and processes can be dangerous. Posts, podcasts, and videos should be read and interpreted as theoretical advice only and are not a substitute for advice from a fully licensed professional.
Sunday Mar 19, 2023
Sunday Mar 19, 2023
It isn't too late for your garden plan! Find out how this tool helps and some things you might want in your garden plan.
Build your seed starting schedule step by step: Here
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Are you heading to a seed swap? What are you sharing? Let me know and connect with other misfit gardeners and homesteaders: Join the Facebook Group
Always ensure to operate safely. All projects are purely “at your own risk” and are for information purposes only. As with any project, unfamiliarity with the tools, animals, plants, and processes can be dangerous. Posts, podcasts, and videos should be read and interpreted as theoretical advice only and are not a substitute for advice from a fully licensed professional.
Sunday Mar 12, 2023
Sunday Mar 12, 2023
If dry weather or troubles watering your garden are on your mind, in today's episode we dig into gardening without watering!
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Do you garden with low water inputs? Let me know and connect with other misfit gardeners and homesteaders: Join the Facebook Group
Always ensure to operate safely. All projects are purely “at your own risk” and are for information purposes only. As with any project, unfamiliarity with the tools, animals, plants, and processes can be dangerous. Posts, podcasts, and videos should be read and interpreted as theoretical advice only and are not a substitute for advice from a fully licensed professional.
Sunday Mar 05, 2023
Sunday Mar 05, 2023
We're learning to grow from seed to saving seed and in this episode, we're talking about how to grow an overlooked root vegetable that stores very well over winter in a root cellar! Meet the humble rutabaga and learn how to grow this crop, how we use it in the kitchen, and even how to save the seeds to grow again.
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What variety are you growing? Let me know and connect with other misfit gardeners and homesteaders: Join the Facebook Group
Always ensure to operate safely. All projects are purely “at your own risk” and are for information purposes only. As with any project, unfamiliarity with the tools, animals, plants, and processes can be dangerous. Posts, podcasts, and videos should be read and interpreted as theoretical advice only and are not a substitute for advice from a fully licensed professional.
Sunday Feb 26, 2023
Sunday Feb 26, 2023
Let's talk about how to grow onions! Often used in the kitchen but sometimes a bit difficult to grow, in this podcast we're going to talk about:
- onion types
- how to grow
- managing disease
- sowing seeds
- saving seeds
Support the podcast at no additional cost to you and see what tools I use on my homestead:
What variety are you growing? Let me know and connect with other misfit gardeners and homesteaders: Join the Facebook Group
Always ensure to operate safely. All projects are purely “at your own risk” and are for information purposes only. As with any project, unfamiliarity with the tools, animals, plants, and processes can be dangerous. Posts, podcasts, and videos should be read and interpreted as theoretical advice only and are not a substitute for advice from a fully licensed professional.
Sunday Feb 19, 2023
Sunday Feb 19, 2023
Sometimes vegetables are dropped from a seed catalog because they aren't popular for gardeners to buy. Maybe it is because we don't know how to use it in the kitchen, maybe it's difficult to grow, or maybe it's because it looks weird and ugly. In this episode, we're talking about how to grow one vegetable that's dropping from the seed catalog availability.
Support the podcast at no additional cost to you and see what tools I use on my homestead:
What variety are you growing? Let me know and connect with other misfit gardeners and homesteaders: Join the Facebook Group
Always ensure to operate safely. All projects are purely “at your own risk” and are for information purposes only. As with any project, unfamiliarity with the tools, animals, plants, and processes can be dangerous. Posts, podcasts, and videos should be read and interpreted as theoretical advice only and are not a substitute for advice from a fully licensed professional.
Sunday Feb 05, 2023
Sunday Feb 05, 2023
If you are itching to get planting your garden listen in to learn how to protect your plants from the cold and avoid a mistake I made using frost protection!
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How do you protect your plants from frost and cold weather? Let me know and connect with other misfit gardeners and homesteaders: Join the Facebook Group
Always ensure to operate safely. All projects are purely “at your own risk” and are for information purposes only. As with any project, unfamiliarity with the tools, animals, plants, and processes can be dangerous. Posts, podcasts, and videos should be read and interpreted as theoretical advice only and are not a substitute for advice from a fully licensed professional.