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Gardening

A small backyard can grow far more food than its size suggests, but the layout matters almost as much as the plants.…

Harvest & Preserve

A productive vegetable garden can create a problem that is surprisingly easy to underestimate: sometimes the harvest arrives much faster than a…

Backyard Projects

A greenhouse can make a small backyard significantly more useful, but it does not need to be a large glass structure occupying…

Backyard Animals

A chicken run can solve several backyard-flock problems at once, but a poorly planned one can create just as many. A secure…

Backyard Homesteading

A self-sufficient backyard does not need to look like a miniature farm. You do not need acres of land, a barn, livestock…

Gardening

Starting a vegetable garden is exciting because the early stages are full of visible progress. Seeds sprout, seedlings unfurl new leaves, raised…

Harvest & Preserve

Growing vegetables is only half of the work of a productive garden. The other half begins the moment you carry the harvest…

Backyard Projects

A small garden does not necessarily need more ground to become more productive. Sometimes it simply needs to start using the space…

Backyard Projects

Most “DIY homesteading” lists online recycle the same five vague ideas — build a coop, start composting, grow a garden — without…

Backyard Animals

Anyone who’s let their flock free-range near a vegetable garden for even one afternoon knows how much damage chickens can do in…