Over 6000 pounds of food per year, on 1/10 acre located just 15 minutes from downtown Los Angeles. The Dervaes family grows over 400 species of plants, 4,30… Video Rating: 4 / 5

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The Homestead Kids are learning the basics of how to shell corn by hand. Learning gardening is a lot of fun for the kids – as it is for all of us. They had a lot of fun shelling the Indian Corn or Flint Corn that mama brought home although the corn was not completely […]

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In this video The Kids Learn To Plant Sweet Potatoes In The Garden. We love sweet potatoes! They are a delicious, nutritious food. There are so many sweet potato recipes that we can’t wait to try more. One of our favorites is sweet potato fries wrapped in bacon 🙂 Many people don’t realize that the […]

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A few updates in the garden as well as some projects that we have been working on. The flood of 2015 is behind us and we are off and running to get the fall crops started. I update a project to the chicken coop and a project building a structure to park my garden tractor […]

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Homesteading is largely about being self sustainable and the kids are learning this well. They love gardening and wanted to a vegetable garden update. They know that a large portion of their food comes from the garden vegetables and plants. While we do some foraging and wild harvesting, we also grow a large portion of […]

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Vegetable Gardening in Homestead Vegetable gardening at home is very pleasant. Many of the few people who have empty area in the home used for gardening. If it does not have a lot of vacant land at home, you can use some of the media used to grow crops. vegetable gardening in homestead Vegetable gardening […]

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Hannah is harvesting vegetables from our vegetable garden. The garden is growing quite well, but is a big job to keep up with the weeds. We grow large part of our food here on the homestead. We recently planted our second round for our mid-summer garden. That planting included Okra, Corn, Beans, pumpkins, hubbard squash, […]

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We have been asked why we plant so many radishes in the garden which is an excellent question and bears some explanation. The answer really is simple. Kids. While radish is good in many different dishes – especially salads and on sandwiches, they don’t seem to lend themselves well to most cooking. The main uses […]

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Food From Dirt: The Potato. Gardening For Kids. Kids love playing in the dirt and they love growing plants. What could be more natural than Planting Potatoes in the Vegetable Garden. The potato is easy to grow from cut pieces of potatoes. Help the kids by letting a potato begin to sprout, cut it into […]

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The kids plant a summer vegetable garden as the season wears on. The girls planted squash, watermelon, and more corn. Each girl planted her own vegetable plants to see how they would do. The boy planted more pumpkins to replace those that had died. The plants produce well, but tire out as the season continues. […]

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Watch “The Adventures of Skeeter & Scratch!”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6bZSZAxUoc Have you ever thought of gardening with pigs? Result of “Pigs in the Garden” Update June 5,2016. When you start a new garden from prairie grass it is really difficult to get the garden in shape with natural, organic methods simply due to the amount of roots […]

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In need of lumber to continue building his pole barn workshop, Pa Mac tries a simple method for turning trees on his property into boards. Watch as he demonstrates simple techniques of using chainsaw mills to make homemade lumber for the small farm or homestead. Be sure and subscribe to the Farm Hand’s Companion channel […]

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This video covers making a simple, non-electric, low maintenance, hydroponic set-up from things you have at home, no special tools or equipment. Mason jar hydroponics Video Rating: / 5 How I make my 2 part hydroponic liquid nutrients. Visit the LED grow light site: https://chilledgrowlights.com/our-products-services Mixing your own from powders would save you a ton […]

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How to cut sheet metal roofing with a 7 1/4″ circular saw. Roofing metal cuts pretty easily with a skillsaw using a cheap carbide tipped saw blade. It does not need to be an expensive saw – a cheap saw will do just fine. Place your sheet metal roofing on a solid secure flat surface […]

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Sustainable Homestead Garden Tips techniques that you can use in your everyday garden. Learn sustainable tips to garden naturally. For more gardening tips and tricks visit us at http://goo.gl/lc05KG Video Rating: / 5

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