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Rabbits, Chickens and Fish… Oh My
How to Teach Your Kids about Fish Farming and Sustainable Seafood
How to Teach Your Kids about Fish Farming and Sustainable Seafood You already know how important it is to source sustainably harvested seafood and to avoid purchasing fish that has been farmed using unhealthy and unethical practices. However, these concepts can be a bit tough to teach to young children as they require an [...]
Survival Gifts For Kids For The Holidays
The holidays can test even the most committed survivalists wide range of skills. From the financial survival skills to the battle over every toy the kids see on tv, all the way to surviving the out-0f-town guests and cooking and cleaning that comes with them. For us, it’s finding the right presents, at the right [...]
How to Grow Your Own Organic Turmeric
How to Grow Your Own Organic Turmeric Today we have a guest post on growing organic tumeric, from Mishka Thomas,an instructor at an American agricultural college and training institute. Gardening is an essential survival skill as is good health. The amount of chemicals used in modern day farming have been linked to increasing health problems. [...]
Free Greenhouse Plans For You To Build With Your Kids
Free Greenhouse Plans You Can Build With Your Kids As Pioneering Parents with an interest of teaching our kids survival skills and self sustaining values, the idea of constructing a greenhouse in our backyard, with our kids, where they can enjoy tending to the plants is definitely part our plans. Most greenhouses constructed are independently [...]
Greenhouse Garden Heaters
Warming It Up in the Greenhouse Planting is some places can only be done in during a certain season. Some species can’t survive the cold or hot climate which prompts farmers to rotate this during certain times of year. It is also the reason why some goods such as fruits and vegetables that are ripe [...]
A Greenhouse For A Winter Garden
Yesterday a fellow mommy blogger asked me if I had any information about inexpensive DIY greenhouses that she could make to stretch the winter food budget. We’ve just finished up our herb garden planting and now we’re ready to start our winter planting, so I though, this would definitely be a good time to talk [...]
Teaching The Kids What To Do With The Herb Harvest
What to Do After You Harvest Your Herbs Now that you and the kids have grown nice big bushes of basil, parsley, and cilantro. What now? Here are a few things you can do with your herbs now that they are grown. 1. Use them fresh in sauces to save for later. Pesto sauce uses [...]
7 Tips for New Herb Growers
7 Tips for New Herb Growers Growing herbs is a great way to get the kiddos started with gardening and it’s also so rewarding! I have given up on trying to add ‘sound’ to this video, but you can see the process here… and I think you can see how excited they were about the [...]
The Best Herbs For Indoor Herb Gardens
What are the Best Herbs to Grow Indoors? Our little indoor/outdoor herb garden project was a result of my own refusal to let an old and otherwise useless ‘thing’ go to waste. I had really loved that cooler- it was great for pool parties, but it had seen it’s day and was no longer going [...]
Herb Garden Week…
Herb Gardening 101 We're starting the month of October with a new herb garden. You might remember a while back that I was making a video of making an indoor/outoodor raised bed herb garden from a rusty old cooler I had… but the camera wasn't picking up audio and I had a heck of a [...]
