What to grow in 2023?
By Eliza Daley, By my solitary hearth
So as I was already grousing about the pantry, I decided to review my garden plan for next year… and found it woefully inadequate.
By Eliza Daley, By my solitary hearth
So as I was already grousing about the pantry, I decided to review my garden plan for next year… and found it woefully inadequate.
By Jocelyn Siegel, Medium.com
In short, keeping animals teaches you how to respect life. You respect it when you raise it, and you respect it if you take it, and you certainly do not look at food in the same way.
By Eliza Daley, By my solitary hearth
Nobody owns the land. Nobody has title to create scarcity in order to increase personal wealth. Nobody can take without giving back.
By Jocelyn Siegel, Medium.com
Hopefully I’ve convinced you to plant a fruit or nut tree or two in your yard. They can be tucked into a garden, only need pruning twice a year, and they give you pretty flowers, nice fall colors, and lots and lots of food.
By Eliza Daley, By my solitary hearth
That gardening works always takes me by surprise. I put these hard and cold and seemingly inert nuggets into dirt and, wondrously, plants happen.
By Jocelyn Siegel, Medium
We are at the mercy of our climate, which is as it should be. Nevertheless, we have ways to push our seasons a bit, and most take very little effort and are pretty cheap and easy to do.
By Eliza Daley, By my solitary hearth
So this is my pest control toolkit: rotation and companion interplanting. It works as well as the chemicals do, and in many ways it’s more reliable than the chemicals — because pests can adapt to the chemicals...
By Jocelyn Siegel, Medium
Let’s talk about the big question of the year: “How much do I grow to feed my family for the year?”
By Jocelyn Siegel, Medium
Vegetable gardens in this country are largely seen as a “summer thing”, and I believe this is because the crops people associate with vegetable gardens are mainly summer growing.
By Jocelyn Siegel, Medium
The bottom line is this: anything you grow now is something you no longer have to buy or worry about finding in a food store. Things are not going to get better, no matter what the ads say.
By Jocelyn Siegel, Medium
Last year, when things really got dodgy and this year looked to be the start of things becoming terrible for the near future, I bit the bullet. I stayed home to raise the food we would eat.
By Eliza Daley, By my solitary hearth
I have a strong inclination toward hygge culture. This is not merely that I like being comfortable and among friends… or maybe it is… because those are far more profound than our mainstream EuroWestern culture allows… but I tend to think of it in more philosophical terms.