Up close of sunflower microgreens with all white background
| |

Microgreens for Chickens! Grow Microgreens As A Healthy Treat!

Microgreens for chickens? You bet! They are easy peasy to grow and packed full of nutrients. Learn the scoop on microgreens here! Sunflower microgreens are a delicious addition to your recipe collection, and they’re so easy to grow in your kitchen. You can grow them for yourself (because they are full of nutrition for humans…

Chicken eggs with funny faces drawn on them
|

How To Clean Fresh Eggs (And When Not To)

How to clean fresh eggs was something that didn’t concern me for years. We were the only ones eating them, so if there was a spot on them or a bit of dirt, it didn’t bother me. Besides egg cleaning wasn’t on my to-do list. Eggshells automatically have something called a “bloom” which is a…

Don't make these 7 controversial canning mistakes that can cost you your health!
| |

7 Controversial Canning Mistakes That Can Cost You Your Health

There’s common canning mistakes…and then there’s canning mistakes that can cost you your health. Every year, I see the same articles floating around the internet and getting shared on Facebook. And I worry for the unsuspecting people who will follow this bad advice, and make all sorts of canning mistakes that might lead them to…

Senior woman holding box with vegetables
|

Gardening Zones

Maat van UitertMaat van Uitert is a backyard chicken and sustainable living expert. She is also the author of Chickens: Naturally Raising A Sustainable Flock, which was a best seller in it’s Amazon category.  Maat has been featured on NBC, CBS, AOL Finance, Community Chickens, the Huffington Post, Chickens magazine, Backyard Poultry, and Countryside Magazine. She lives on her…

Gardening
|

25 Gardening Apps For Super Simple Planning

Whether you’re a novice gardener with zero knowledge of plant care or an expert who can read a sun chart like the back of her hand, you no longer have to go it alone when it comes to caring for your plants. The days of relying on folklore and the Farmer’s Almanac are over. Today,…