A Recipe: Fermented Hot Chili Sauce

“Fermented hot chili sauce – explosive with heat and teeming with food enzymes,  beneficial bacteria, vitamin C and carotene. Traditionally, all hot chili  sauces were prepared through fermentation

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Make Your Own Oil of Oregano

“Oil of Oregano has many health benefits. It can reduce pain and inflammation and can fight off infection. It also can boost the immune system. It has been

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Planting A Bee Friendly Garden

“Spring is fast approaching and if you are a gardener like me you are thinking about how quickly you can get your hands in the soil and get

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Growing Berries – Berry Good Fun

“For me, summertime conjures up magical childhood memories of climbing trees, catching lightening bugs and playing daylong games of hide-and-seek in the lingering twilight well past 9 at

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Growing Chickpeas

“Have you ever grown your own chickpeas (garbanzo beans)? I had never thought of using any of my store cupboard seeds in my vegetable patch until last year.

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Organic Homemade Gummy Bears

“Jeremy is my Valentine, whether he likes it or not. His inner kid is obsessed with gummy bears. I don’t blame him, who isn’t? He likes them with popcorn, chocolate

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Beginning Your Own Food Journey

“If you’re wanting to start on a path of eating and preparing healthier food for your family, you can really begin any where you want. But if you want

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Peasant Bread: The Best, Easiest Bread You Will Ever Make

“When I tell you that, if forced, I had to pick one and only one recipe to share with you that this — my mother’s peasant bread —

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How To Dehydrate Chicken

“Backpackers and hikers often take along dehydrated foods on their outdoor adventures due to the low mass and weight of dehydrated foods. Dehydration preserves food by eliminating the moisture

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How To Buy A Side Of Pasture Fed Organic Beef

“In 2008 we purchased a quarter side of beef with a few friends. It lasted us nearly a year! Without looking at anyone’s grocery budget, I can 95%

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Homemade Peanut Butter

“Once you make peanut butter at home, it will be very difficult to get excited about store bought peanut butter ever again. Not that eating peanut butter of

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Homemade Ketchup, An Old-World Recipe

“Homemade ketchup – it sounds complicated as though you’d spend all day in the kitchen pounding your way through vats of tomatoes and slowly simmering them away in

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One Couple, 57 Flowers & The Somerset Meadow They Turned Into A Field Of Dreams

“This is nature at her most exuberant — a  riotous, rippling romp of colour amid the green pastures of  Somerset. Dancing in the light summer breeze, a thousand vivid

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Weave Your Own Elevated Flower Bed

“First of all: please excuse, if my English is some kind of funny – I am German. But let’s start with how you can weave your own elevated

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Permaculture Food Forest – Why And How To Create One

“Ever heard of a permaculture food forest? It’s a system of food production that utilizes the wisdom inherent in natural woodlands and the understanding of beneficial relationships between

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Leaning String Bean Trellis

“If you are just getting around to planting your green beans, or the seeds have sprouted and the plants are looking for a place to grow on, we’ve…um…my

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No Till Gardening And Heavy Mulch

“Above is the picture of the original garden spot that I have been gardening nonstop since 1997. That’s 15 years and a very large amount of food that

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How To Make A Hurdle Fence

“The use of coppiced materials like willow and hazel were common through many periods throughout Europe, especially Britain. This video illustrates the construction of how to make a

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Preparing The Garden For Next Year

“Wintertime.  There I said it.  I always hate thinking about that time of year – especially right now when the fall weather has turned beautiful here in Ohio.

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How To Build An Inexpensive Hoop-Style Greenhouse

“One of the most valuable assets in my garden is my greenhouse. It has allowed me to grow plants that I normally would not be able to grow,

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