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Raising Food

Category: Raising Food

The Privilege of Home Dairying and Culturing | Learning to culture my own homemade dairy foods has been one of the most rewarding things I've ever done. The flavors are beyond delicious, the health benefits greater than anything you can buy at a regular store, and the experience of learning the skills profoundly revealing. | GNOWFGLINS.com

The Privilege of Home Dairying and Culturing

Rural Homesteading: Four Things I Wish I Had Known

Rural Homesteading: Four Things I Wish I Had Known

KYF #067: The Urban Farm with Greg Peterson | For the last 25 years, Greg Peterson has been urban farming on 1/3 acre city lot in Phoenix, Arizona. His home, The Urban Farm, is a showcase of beautiful and productive permaculture -- a chicken run, gardens, 85 fruit trees including apple and citrus hedges, and much more! Get to know Greg and The Urban Farm in today's podcast. Plus... the tip of the week! | KnowYourFoodPodcast.com/67

The Urban Farm with Greg Peterson (KYF067)

KYF #083: Getting Your Spouse on Board with Erica Mueller | Though she was raised on from-scratch cooking and whole foods, Erica Mueller's journey started all over again once she got married. Her husband was not on board, so they started with baby steps and won him over bit by bit. And now, Erica and her husband both feel strongly that their boys should grow up knowing and loving the taste of real food. | KnowYourFoodPodcast.com/83

Getting Your Spouse on Board with Erica Mueller (KYF083)

Amish Butter: Really? | Is this Amish butter or not? Come along with me, and we'll find out! | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

Amish Butter: Really?

"Summer is right around the corner and with it some of our favorite garden vegetables: tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, zucchini, to name just a few. But summer also brings some of the garden’s most notorious pests whom, if left out of control, will devour those vegetables before they have a chance to make it to our table. Today I’m sharing a few of the pests we’ve encountered the most often in our zone 6b garden, and what’s worked for us to combat them naturally." | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

Summer’s Most Infamous Pests… And How to Combat Them Naturally

13 Ways I Use Herbs To Maintain A Healthy Goat Herd

13 Ways I Use Herbs To Maintain A Healthy Goat Herd

Vegetable Families and Crop Rotation

Vegetable Families and Crop Rotation

Lunatic Tours at Polyface Farms

Lunatic Tours at Polyface Farms

Stinging Nettle Part 2: Using Nettle in Everyday Life

Stinging Nettle Part 2: Using Nettle in Everyday Life

Forgotten Plants: Salsify

Forgotten Plants: Salsify

Plantain (a forgotten plant) | I did not know that this common weed was actually an important and useful herb -- and I bet I pull a hundred of them out of my yard every year! Plantain herb, a forgotten plant, has so many uses and benefits as a natural remedy! | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

Plantain (a forgotten plant)

Grow Your Own Transplants | If you're serious about gardening, the growing season never really comes to an end. Something always needs to be done even, in the dead of winter. On our homestead, once the holidays are over, it is time to turn our attention to the upcoming spring planting season, which actually starts several weeks in advance of spring. The first item on my agenda is to start my own transplants. Here are my best tips. | GNOWFGLINS.com

Grow Your Own Transplants

Raising A LGD -- The First Year | January 5th marked one year since Mindy, our Great Pyrenees/Karakachan dog, came to live with us at Hickory Cove Farm. I thought and prayed about getting a livestock guardian dog for quite a while. I thought that I would sit back and observe, read others' tips and stories, ask a few questions, and keep an eye out for an available puppy with the right and location. Then one day, Mindy's picture showed up in the group, and I melted. | GNOWFGLINS.com

Learning Together: My Adventures in Raising a Livestock Guardian Dog

Spotlight on Herbs: Bay Leaf | The humble bay leaf -- cultivated since the beginning of recorded history, used as a symbol of honor in Ancient Greek and Roman culture, and one of the most widely used culinary herbs in both Europe and North America. Living in a cold northern climate where bay laurel trees must be grown indoors, it took me two years to find one to add to my indoor garden, and (thankfully) it was one of the few plants that survived our recent move and continues to thrive with nothing but a sunny window for light! | GNOWFGLINS.com

Spotlight on Herbs: Bay Leaf

5 Anti-Inflammatory Herbs In Your Own Backyard

5 Anti-Inflammatory Herbs In Your Own Backyard

Spotlight on Herbs: Thyme | Since winter is still firmly upon us, it's a wonderful time to think about thyme. Not only is it a great flavoring in all of the warm soups, stews, and roasts we're busy cooking, but it's a natural healer of colds, coughs, and sore throats. Thyme is an important addition to any kitchen or medicinal herb garden! | GNOWFGLINS.com

Spotlight on Herbs: Thyme

Spotlight on Herbs: Marjoram | I rarely see marjoram in the spotlight. It humbly takes its place next to showier herbs like borage and bay leaf trees, and more popular rosemary and thyme. And yet, year after year, this little plant thrives in both garden and pot. It survives the long winter, basking in the light of a sunny window. With both culinary and medicinal uses, it's an herb that deserves a second look. | GNOWFGLINS.com

Spotlight on Herbs: Marjoram