There’s a number of reasons why people want to, or ultimately decide to, homestead. Though it is often to seek… Read More »The Liberal Homestead – Prepping, but Mostly to Reduce Consumption
There’s a ton of resources online about what native trees, shrubs, and flowers to grow in Maryland, so I’m not… Read More »Southern Maryland Native Flowers
Most of the time I’m advocating for planting fruit trees and native edible berry producing shrubs, but of course I… Read More »Willow Trees are a Useful Non-Edible plant on a Homestead
Update #1 – 5/7/25: My Blueberry plant has died As you’ll read below, I focused a lot of my efforts… Read More »A Simple Hügelkultur Mound Garden for Berries
Native Plants are so, so Important I’ve been getting into growing Maryland native plants on my forested homestead more and… Read More »Growing Maryland Native Plants
Fava Beans Are Villainously Delish The most memorable reference to fava beans in media probably comes from Hannibal Lecter in… Read More »Growing Fava Beans (Vicia Faba)
I live in the exurbs of Washington, DC and Baltimore, MD and I often just say I live in the… Read More »Urban, Suburban, Exurban, and Rural Homesteading
Chaos. That’s right, to put it simply, the difference between an orchard and a food forest is chaos. Orchards are… Read More »What’s the difference between an Orchard and a Food Forest?
I don’t mean “slugging it” in the baseball sense – when you average multiple bases per at bat. I mean… Read More »Slugging it vs. No Zero Days on the Homestead
Chaotic, Evil, Good Chart Meme This is a first pass at an alignment chart for different types of agriculture and… Read More »Agriculture Alignment Chart Meme