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How to Grow, Harvest & Cook Heirloom Beans + My Favorite Snap & Dried Bean Varieties!

April 15, 2019 by crystal@wholefedhomestead 4 Comments

You guys want to know all about heirloom beans, I hear ya! So I’m spilling them! …the beans that is. Har har. I can’t write about beans and not include at least one cheesy bean joke, come on! No fart jokes, I promise. I’m taking you through the basics of how to grow heirloom beans, […]

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How to Grow Shiitake Mushrooms in Your Own Backyard!

March 11, 2019 by crystal@wholefedhomestead 2 Comments

I’ve always been a mushroom-lover… blame it on my upbringing. I grew up in the woods, with two generations of wild mushroom foragers before me. I’ve eaten a lot of really amazing fresh mushrooms in my life- and while I love foraging for them, it’s even better to be able to grow Shiitake mushrooms in […]

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How to Render Lard the BEST Way – And Why I WON’T Use a Slow Cooker

February 19, 2018 by crystal@wholefedhomestead 3 Comments

Eventually everything comes back into style, doesn’t it? I’m happy to see lard back in a positive light, and even happier to see old-fashioned skills, like learning how to render lard making a resurgence! While you can buy rendered lard that’s ready to cook with, making your own is often more affordable, plus it’s a […]

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First Aid & Health Aid for Homesteaders (and Everyone)

January 8, 2018 by crystal@wholefedhomestead 2 Comments

First aid on the homestead- are you prepared? If there’s anything I’ve learned from homesteading, it’s that nothing ever goes exactly how you want it to. And it comes with inherent danger- being out in the elements, long days, using dangerous equipment, and working with farm animals. Like the time we brought home our first […]

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How to Tear Down and Get Rid of an Old Barn, Plus How NOT to Sell the Wood!

October 18, 2017 by crystal@wholefedhomestead 29 Comments

We’ll call this one a “learning experience.” (I generally hate those, by the way) If you’re wondering how to sell the wood from an old barn, if your old barn wood is worth any money, and how to handle the process… I hope you can learn from our experience. That is to say, selling our […]

Filed Under: History, Homestead Tagged With: history, homesteading, informative

Organic Potato Bug Control: How to Get Rid of Potato Beetles Naturally

August 3, 2017 by crystal@wholefedhomestead 5 Comments

Potato beetles showed up in my garden this year, and I was ready- here’s what I did to get rid of them organically and naturally without harmful pesticides… and it actually worked! Did you know that potatoes are on the Environmental Working Group’s “Dirty Dozen?” This is the top twelve produce items with the most […]

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How to Package, Store, and Sell Honey, plus Creative & Inexpensive Honey Labels

March 22, 2017 by crystal@wholefedhomestead 28 Comments

We’re still pretty “new” as far as beekeeping goes. Newbies, if you will. See what I did there? Of course we’ve had ups and downs over the past few years, but overall I consider us successful beekeepers. The first year we didn’t take any honey from the bees, but the past two years we were able […]

Filed Under: Hey, Honey!, Homestead Tagged With: homesteading, honeybees, informative

The Importance of Good Skincare: First Do No Harm

December 26, 2016 by crystal@wholefedhomestead Leave a Comment

**SAFE SKINCARE QUICK LINKS** Shop Beautycounter —> here. Join my Safe Skincare Facebook group —> here. ♥♥♥ Confession: I’m getting older and my skin is changing. There. I said it. We put a lot of thought and care into the food we grow on the homestead, and what we put in our bodies. It is […]

Filed Under: Health, Homestead Tagged With: health, homesteading, informative, ramblings

MEGA Tree Nursery Review: Online & Local, Evergreen, Orchard & Decidous

July 16, 2016 by crystal@wholefedhomestead Leave a Comment

In this mega tree nursery review, I have full reviews for: Arbor Day Foundation Evergreen Plant Nursery Japanese Maples and Evergreens Albrecht’s Nursery Paint Creek Nursery Weston’s Antique Apples Burnt Ridge Nursery So, we ordered a lot of trees this spring… One of the things high on our to-do list was to plant a privacy […]

Filed Under: Homestead, Orchard Tagged With: homesteading, informative, orchard

Eliminate Seasonal Pollen Allergies Naturally

May 24, 2016 by crystal@wholefedhomestead Leave a Comment

Seasonal pollen allergies are dreadful. There’s nothing worse than stepping outside on a gorgeous summer day and feeling your nose start to tickle and eyes turn itchy. You’ve got tissues shoved in every pocket, and you’re trying to finish your tasks as quickly as possible in order to retreat back inside as fast as you can. Wouldn’t it be […]

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🥔🎉 I haven’t finalized this year’s potat 🥔🎉 I haven’t finalized this year’s potato list quite yet. If you have an absolute favorite variety, I’d love to hear it! Here’s what I have so far:
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German Butterball: this is our favorite potato! A must-grow for sure. It’s an all-purpose variety, and it’s a gorgeous grass-fed butter yellow inside.
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Papa Cacho: the most amazing red fingerlings, digging these looks like pulling red bananas out of the dirt because they’re nearly a foot long! They are so fun!! Delicious too and gorgeous rosy color inside (pictured above).
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Upstate Abundance: this is a new variety for me from Row 7, who specialize in good-tasting varieties. It’s also supposed to be high-yielding and fairly disease-resistant.
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Norkotah & Burbank Russets: we’ve been growing both of these for years. I was hoping a winner would emerge and I’d just grow one of these types, but so far that hasn’t happened so I keep planting them both! They are good but I’d love a russet type that blows me away.
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What say you- what are your must-grow potatoes?!
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Thanks for all your enthusiasm yesterday for the k Thanks for all your enthusiasm yesterday for the kick-off of the grow along, and thanks for following along!
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We put together this little video, and I’m really lucky to call these fun, creative, and kind gardeners my friends!
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🧅🎉 I “winter-sowed” some more onion seed 🧅🎉 I “winter-sowed” some more onion seeds today (and showed the whole *very easy* process in my stories!). This is a fantastic technique if you don’t have a grow light set up or don’t want to babysit any seedlings! Mother Nature does most of the work.
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On that note, today is the start of The Great Grow Along!! A whole bunch of us gardeners are getting together to share real-time updates from our gardens every week on Wednesdays —> find us all here @thegreatgrowalong and thanks to our sponsors, @tractorsupply and @gurneysseed.
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