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Blogs about: Grow Your Own Food

waiting for rain4 comments

colouritgreen wrote 1 week ago: The forecast had given dire warnings of heavy rain for today, so it was with surprise that we woke u … more →

Tags: chickens, General Wittering, Livestock, Self-Sufficiency, sheep, smallholding, vegetables

pork sausages6 comments

colouritgreen wrote 1 week ago: We’ve been sausage making again.  This time using one pork hand, one slab of pork belly, and a … more →

Tags: Livestock, pigs, Recipes, Self-Sufficiency, smallholding

mud6 comments

colouritgreen wrote 2 weeks ago: Torrential rain. Always makes me laugh when people tell me how the raising of meat uses so much more … more →

Tags: Self-Sufficiency, smallholding

Benefit

horsebuddies wrote 3 weeks ago: The benefits of organic gardening are awesome and to numerous to list all here. So I will keep addin … more →

Tags: organic farming, Hobby Farm, Sustainable living, buy local

In the Garden

maryhysong wrote 1 month ago: The garden continues to produce, though at a slower rate than before. The summer crops are winding d … more →

Tags: Beans, Birds, Food, Freedom, gardening, Squash, Tomatoes

confused garden1 comment

colouritgreen wrote 1 month ago: My garden is confused.  First there is a cold snap, then the autumn went warm, and now it is cold ag … more →

Tags: General Wittering, vegetables

crab

colouritgreen wrote 1 month ago: We three love crab, and I bought one from the fish van. Crab is great, tasty, sweet, low fat, and su … more →

Tags: Recipes, vegetables

is it worth it?5 comments

colouritgreen wrote 1 month ago: When raising animals for food, and eggs, or growing veg, it always has to be questioned whether it i … more →

Tags: General Wittering, Self-Sufficiency, Livestock, smallholding, pigs, sheep, chickens

Update Vegetable Garden Video

quickgardens wrote 1 month ago: Here is an updated video from late September. It’s really turned hot and muggy since this vide … more →

Tags: Food, Garden, Growing your own food, health, Life, Neighborhood, organic, raised bed gardens, square foot Garden

physalis5 comments

colouritgreen wrote 1 month ago: This is the first year I have grown physalis.  The plants have been a bit late in getting their act … more →

Tags: fruit

October Days in the Garden

quickgardens wrote 1 month ago: It’s getting hot again. Today it is 95 degrees in the middle of October. Check out some of the … more →

Tags: Food, Garden, Growing your own food, health, Life, organic, raised bed gardens, square foot Garden, vegetable garden

cream of legbar soup3 comments

colouritgreen wrote 1 month ago: Well the hens are definitely slowing down for winter – most are in a moult, and we are only ge … more →

Tags: Recipes, Self-Sufficiency, Livestock, chickens

productive weekend1 comment

colouritgreen wrote 1 month ago: We always seem to be overloading ourselves with jobs to be done, always running to catch up. So we d … more →

Tags: General Wittering, Recipes, Self-Sufficiency, smallholding, vegetables, fruit

kiwi fruit7 comments

colouritgreen wrote 1 month ago: Some years ago, at our old house, we planted a couple of Kiwi plants.  There was a nice warm south-w … more →

Tags: Recipes, fruit

HOME GROWN FOOD SECURITY2 comments

maryhysong wrote 1 month ago: Some of my family & friends do not understand my passion for my garden and canning and preservin … more →

Tags: gardening, Tomatoes, Self-Sufficiency, Beans, Squash, Cucumber, Potatoes, Freedom, Food

14 in the cockerel run9 comments

colouritgreen wrote 1 month ago: We recently moved the 14 ‘chicks’ into the cockerel run, and they are having a  whale of … more →

Tags: chickens, Livestock, Self-Sufficiency, smallholding, Chickens, chicks

Update for Fall Vegetable Garden

quickgardens wrote 1 month ago: This is fun. Tomatoes have been scarce this year. It looks like the rainy days are over, weather is … more →

Tags: earthbox, Food, Growing your own food, health, Life, Neighborhood, organic, square foot Garden, urban farmer

butchery day8 comments

colouritgreen wrote 2 months ago: Today himself had a day off, I set up lots of stuff for our son to do home education wise, and we sp … more →

Tags: Self-Sufficiency, Livestock, smallholding, pigs, pigs

equinox and foraging1 comment

colouritgreen wrote 2 months ago: Today is the autumn equinox, and despite the pleasant warm weather we have been happening – th … more →

Tags: Self-Sufficiency, Livestock, Wild Foods, smallholding, vegetables


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