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Latest Episodes
Episode 21- Feeding Poultry for less money: How to make your homestead pay
An overview of strategies to increase the health of your poultry or chicken flock while simultaneously cutting feed costs for homesteaders or backyard farmers
Episode 20- How to use the BRICS method to measure plant health and nutrition
BRICS is a method that organic gardeners and homesteaders can use to measure plant health and nutrition
Episode 19- Organic Gardening Principles Part 3: Companion Planting, Intercropping, Green Manures, and Undersowing
How to incorporate Companion Planting, Intercropping, Green Manures, and Undersowing into your organic gardening system for homesteading and permaculture
Episode 18- Organic Gardening Principles Part 2: The Science of Composting
An overview of the science behind composting and basic methodology as an integral part of organic gardening for homesteaders, agriculturalists, home gardeners, and small farmers
Episode 17- Organic Gardening Principles Part 1: Soil
Part 1 of a series- Principles of organic gardening for gardeners, homesteading, and permaculture. This Episode topic is a primer on soil.
Episode 16- Winter Container Gardening: Organic gardening indoors
How to grow your vegetables indoors using organic gardening principles for the homesteader or gardener
Episode 15- Certified Organic Food: are you getting what you are paying for?
How factory farms have taken over the organic food industry, how it has affected the quality of your food, and what you can do about it.
Episode 14- How to grow your pepper plants as perennials
Growing peppers as perennials using organic gardening techniques
Episode 13- Wheat and Gluten: what is going on with our food?
A look at wheat, wheat gluten, gluten sensitivities, and Celiacs disease and the changes in our food and food processing systems which may have contributed to rise of these disorders
Episode 12- Propagating perennial plants from cuttings for food forests, gardening, and permaculture
How to propagate perennials without breaking the budget by rooting cuttings