Your homestead garden is an essential step towards self-reliance and self-sufficiency. Providing food for yourself and others is one of the primary reasons people choose to homestead.
When you grow a garden you can:
- Know what is or isn’t in your food, such as pesticides or chemical fertilizers
- Grow varieties of foods that you can’t find in grocery stores.
- Build self-reliance by seed-saving, seed-sharing, growing perennials and creating new plants from cuttings.
- Eat seasonally. Food grown in it’s natural season tastes better and is more nutrient-dense.
- Protect the environment by joining millions of gardeners to take small steps to reduce pesticides, sequester carbon, and help eliminate landfill waste.
Whatever reasons motivate you, starting a garden will take you one step closer to having the homestead of your dreams!
Start Your Gardening Journey Here
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Setting Your Gardening Goals
Composting 101
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Happy Gardening!
Alisa