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Welcome to our blog! Here, you’ll find recipes for herbal remedies, chicken keeping, gardening tips, DIYs, and all the tips, tricks, lessons, and skills you’ll need to manage a homestead and become more self-sufficient. Whether you’re new to this lifestyle or you’ve been doing it for years, we hope you find our content entertaining as well as educational.

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5 Organic Soil Amendments for the Medicinal Garden

Spring is in the air, and while it’s still too early for many of us to plant, it is the perfect time to consider soil amendments to help...

APOTHECARY

Mar 253 min read

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8 Tips For Planting For a Fall Harvest

Summer feels like the busy season in the garden. Tomatoes, squash, and other summer-loving plants are in overdrive, and sometimes,...

GARDENING

Jul 23, 20245 min read

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What I’ve Learned after 3 Years of Growing Our Own Food

Since our move back to Colorado in 2019, I've been cultivating a garden. However, only when we settled on our homestead in 2021 did I...

GARDENING

Jul 9, 20245 min read

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Natural Pest Control in the Garden

It only takes garden pests a few days to decimate a garden completely and few things are more disheartening to a gardener. The reality is...

GARDENING

Jun 5, 20246 min read

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DIY Wall o' Water to Protect Your Tomato Seedlings

If you’ve been following us, you know that our Colorado homestead is in USDA planting Zone 5B, which has a short growing season. This...

GARDENING

May 15, 20242 min read

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Tips for Planting a Medicine Garden

When I first started exploring medicinal herbs, I began by foraging them around our property. It didn’t take long before I realized that...

APOTHECARY

Apr 2, 20249 min read

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The Best Plants to Start Indoors

If you’re new to gardening, starting seeds indoors can quickly put your gardening skills to the test. That being said, there are quite a...

GARDENING

Mar 12, 20245 min read

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7 Ways to Reduce Transplant Shock

Whether you’ve started plants from seed or purchased starts from a local nursery, they’re eventually going to need to move from the pot...

GARDENING

May 8, 20234 min read

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Planting No Dig Potatoes

Growing potatoes probably qualifies as one of the vegetable gardener’s favorite pursuits. Because they are so easy to grow, you’ll find...

GARDENING

May 1, 20234 min read

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Companion Planting 101

Companion planting is a phrase frequently used in gardening circles. You’re likely already familiar with the concept but not the...

GARDENING

Apr 18, 20236 min read

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The Pros and Cons of 20 Different Gardening Methods

The wide world of gardening has so many things to learn and know. For instance, did you know that there are 20 different gardening...

GARDENING

Mar 13, 202310 min read

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How to Start Plants From Seed

It may not actually be Spring, but for the gardener, it’s so close we can taste it (and our coming produce) already. That means it’s time...

GARDENING

Mar 1, 20238 min read

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Advice for Beginning Gardeners

Becoming a successful gardener is a skill that comes with a lot of practice and a healthy dose of trial and error. If you’re new to...

GARDENING

Feb 2, 20236 min read

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How to Harvest & Store Mint Plus 4 Ways to Use it

If you’ve ever planted mint, then you know that it is one abundant and determined little plant. Going into our new garden this year, I...

GARDENING

Jul 14, 20223 min read

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The Unbound Blog

5 Organic Soil Amendments for the Medicinal Garden

8 Tips For Planting For a Fall Harvest

What I’ve Learned after 3 Years of Growing Our Own Food

Natural Pest Control in the Garden

DIY Wall o' Water to Protect Your Tomato Seedlings

Tips for Planting a Medicine Garden

The Best Plants to Start Indoors

7 Ways to Reduce Transplant Shock

Planting No Dig Potatoes

Companion Planting 101

The Pros and Cons of 20 Different Gardening Methods

How to Start Plants From Seed

Advice for Beginning Gardeners

How to Harvest & Store Mint Plus 4 Ways to Use it

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