A One Acre Farmhouse
If you have a packet of vegetable seeds you’d like to plant but the directions tell you to start them indoors, this article will walk you through how to do it! I’ll share the soil, tools and tricks I use to get seeds to germinate and grow into strong seedlings that will soon be ready […]
Something has happened and backyard food production suddenly seems like a VERY good idea. Here is how to create a vegetable growing space in a weekend or less, where to buy compost at the best price and how to find vegetable starts to plant, even if there is a buying panic underway. Let’s start a […]
Fallen tomatoes, squished berries, clipped leaves and garden weeds are the foods chickens adore! Rich in vitamins and minerals, there is good reason that many backyard growers are quietly adding a few hens to their yard. Letting chickens have first dibs on anything that would otherwise be headed to the compost pile is a wonderful […]
Tired of getting golf ball sized onions from your backyard garden? I’ll walk you through the trick organic farmer’s market growers are using to get big, sweet, softball sized (and larger) onions that are bursting with flavor! Whether starting with purchased onion sets or a packet of seeds, here is how to grow big onions: […]
In this article I will share two gardening hacks I use to encourage rapid, early growth in my sweet and hot pepper starts that results in faster flowering, good fruit set and ends up producing peppers a month sooner than nursery pepper starts planted at the same time. The best part is it is 100% […]
In this article I will share two gardening hacks I use to encourage rapid, early growth in my tomato starts that results in faster flowering, good fruit set and ends up producing ripe fruit a month sooner than nursery tomato starts planted at the same time. The best part is it is 100% organic and […]
If you are starting a backyard vegetable garden from scratch, we will walk you through selecting different bed types and share how to get compost and filler soil at a discount. Here is everything you need to know to build a successful gardening space! How To Start a Garden Vegetables need a minimum of 6 […]
Are you wanting to use Prairie Bluebell Eggers (a type of blue Easter Egger hybrid) to breed olive eggers? We did it and I have egg pictures to show you from multiple crosses! Here is what the pullets lay when creating Prairie Bluebell Olive Eggers. What Are Prairie Bluebell Eggers? Prairie Bluebells are a hybrid […]
To breed an Olive Egger you must combine blue and brown egg genes. A second crossing with dark chocolate egg genes is typically needed to create the deep green tones everyone is after. But around half of the female offspring from this back crossing will lay brown eggs! In this article we are going to […]
