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Share Your Seeds with These Printable Seed Packets

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In Uncertain Times, Plant a Garden: Don’t Be Scared, Be Prepared

Companion Planting: Fact or Fiction?

Composted manure

The Scoop on Poop: How to Use Manure in the Garden

Red Sunflower

2019 Full Garden Tour ⋅ Time Lapse Through the Seasons

Zucchini

10 Delicious Zucchini Recipes for the Dinner Table and Pantry

soil food web

The Soil Food Web: How to Build Healthy Soil

Back to Eden Garden

How We Created Our New Back to Eden Garden

Peppermint Essential Oil

5 Must Have Essential Oils for Your Garden

Start Seeds Indoors

How to Start Seeds Indoors

spring flowers tulips and daffodils

Garden Inspiration from Seattle’s NW Flower & Garden Show

Neem Oil: The Answer to a Pest-Free Organic Garden

How to Grow a Hugelkultur Garden

Powerful Plant Medicine: Ashwagandha

Fix Your Brix and Grow Your Sweetest Garden Yet

Grow Your Own Food Indoors

How to Start a Community Garden

Fall Gardening Checklist

Grow Microgreens for a Powerful Vitamin Boost

4 DIY Fertilizers for Your Garden

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April 18, 2015January 24, 2021 Monica MansfieldHolistic Living

Weed or Herbal Medicine?

Your backyard might be covered in healing medicine disguised as weeds. Learn how dandelions and stinging nettles can improve your health.

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Hi, my name is Monica. I believe plants are powerful and homegrown food tastes better. I’m obsessed with growing things, love the outdoors, and hope to inspire others to start their own gardens so they can grow some of their own food. When I’m not in my garden, you’ll probably find me on a trail deep in the trees with my dogs. My husband and I live on our 6.5 acre homestead in Washington State with our 3 pit bulls, 2 cats and 16 chickens. Read more …

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Some of my favorite flowers in the garden this yea

Some of my favorite flowers in the garden this year. Can you name them?

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Forget knee high by the fourth of July! This corn

Forget knee high by the fourth of July! This corn is already as tall as my hips! This is by far my best year for corn ever. This happens to be a spot in the garden where I added spent straw from the goat pen, composted chicken manure and a fresh layer of woodchips. This is also the third year of this Back to Eden garden, which is when things are really supposed to pop off. I think I have built some very healthy, happy soil. 😊

#corn #homegrown #backtonature #backtoedengardening #backtoedengarden #backtoeden #backtoedengardener #organicgardening #backtotheland #homesteadinglife #homesteadersofinstagram #modernhomestead #growfood #growyourownfood

The purple cauliflower is just about ready! #cau

The purple cauliflower is just about ready!

#cauliflower #vegetablegarden #vegetablegardening #gardeninspiration #gardenersofinstagram #gardenerofinstagram #gardening #backtonature #backtoedengardening #backtoedengarden #backtoeden #homesteadinglife #homegrown #growfood #homesteadersofinstagram

Biscuits and Billy are already guarding the chicke

Biscuits and Billy are already guarding the chicken coop. I love these pups so much. I also can't believe the chickens haven't completely destroyed the plants I planted by their coop and am loving how the roses are climbing this arch. I can't wait until it is completely covered in red roses!

#greatpyrenees #greatpyreneesofinstagram #livestockguardiandog #chickencoop #coopdesign #chickencoopsofinstagram #backtonature

I installed a couple of new cattle panel trellises

I installed a couple of new cattle panel trellises this year. This one will be home to my new kiwi plants. Also, this is my best ever year for broccoli and cauliflower. My starts were super healthy and I got them planted nice and early. Now to battle the slugs!

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Almost time to harvest broccoli! #broccoli #gard

Almost time to harvest broccoli!

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Meet Biscuits and Billy, our new livestock guardia

Meet Biscuits and Billy, our new livestock guardians pups. They are fluffy little clouds of joy and I'm madly in love already. There's nothing like puppies. They are going to have the very important job of protecting all of the goats and chickens on our little farm. It is so fun watching them meet all of our other animals. Fluffy little clouds of joy.

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Jinxycat is hunting from her perch in our apple tr

Jinxycat is hunting from her perch in our apple tree. #catsofinstagram #catsofig #catsofinsta #cats #catstagram #caturday #appletree #garden

Porch pup loving the sunshine. #thor #pitbullove

Porch pup loving the sunshine.

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Grow Your Own Food Indoors
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Fall Gardening Checklist
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How to Grow Herbs that Relieve Stress
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Companion Planting: Fact or Fiction?

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In Uncertain Times, Plant a Garden: Don’t Be Scared, Be Prepared
Life has been cancelled. Store shelves are empty. You've been told to hunker down and stay at home. Most people aren't prepared for this. What can you do to take back a little control and make sure your family is taken care of during this time of uncertainty? Plant a garden, of course. Here are the staple crops I recommend for your garden, even if your new to gardening. These crops are easy to grow, produce high yields and can be grown in small spaces. […]
2019 Full Garden Tour ⋅ Time Lapse Through the Seasons
The year is drawing to a close and seed catalogs have already made it to my mailbox. I've been reflecting on my successes and failures from this past year's garden and am starting to dream up designs for 2020. I thought I'd share a time lapse of my 2019 garden with you so you can see the progress we've made on our homestead this year. […]
10 Delicious Zucchini Recipes for the Dinner Table and Pantry
Zucchini harvests tend to be prolific and it can be a challenge to find ways to use it all up. If you're having trouble figuring out what to do with all of your zucchini, check out 10 of my favorite recipes for the dinner table and pantry. […]

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