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©2012 Shanna Ohmes Have you ever wanted to start your own seeds? Seed-starting is easy and fun and you can make your own paper pots to start them in! Recycling newspapers to make seed pots will use up that pile of newspapers you’ve saved and they will decompose in the ground when you plant . . . → Read More: Seed Starting–How to Make Paper Pots Out of Newspaper 
©2012 Shanna Ohmes The Martin Luther King Middle School in Berkeley, California has a program inspired by Alice Waters to teach students how to grow their own food. It’s an edible school yard on a one acre garden. This program teaches students how to grow their own food, tend to it, harvest it, and . . . → Read More: Edible School Yard Garden Teaches 1,000 Students a Year about Food 
©2011 Shanna Ohmes I’ve had lots of requests for information on permaculture and found this webinar series on YouTube I wanted to share with you. In this video series, you learn that permaculture is the most important activity that we can do to provide for a sustainable future. It is a common sense system . . . → Read More: What is Permaculture? A video Webinar Series Intro to Permaculture  Leave a comment  Animals, Gardening, Home, Homesteading, Off the Grid, People, Permaculture, Self Reliance, Traditional Cultures, Urban Homesteading  Against the Grain, Bill Mollison, Bill Wilson, chickens, Collapse, egg production, greenhouses, grow your own food, Homesteading, How to Grow More Vegetables Than You Ever Thought Possible on Less Land Than You Can Imagine, indigenous cultures, Introduction to Permaculture, Jared Diamond, John Jeavons, Midwest Permaculture, midwestpermaculture.com, pavement gardens, peak oil, permaculture, permaculture concepts, permaculture design, permaculture videos, permaculture webinar, rain gardens, raingardens, Richard Manning, Stephen and Rebekah Hren, suburban permaculture, The Carbon Free Home, topsoil, urban permaculture 
©2011 Shanna Ohmes When you are new to trying your hand at growing your own food, it can be daunting to know where to begin. How do you plan a garden for food production? Is it possible to become self-sufficient in a short time? It’s understandable to want to grow everything your first year. . . . → Read More: How to Plan Your Garden Food Production for Self-Sufficiency 
Nature’s Garden: A Guide to Identifying, Harvesting, and Preparing Edible Wild Plants“> Dandelion (Taraxacum spp.)—high in iron, beta-carotene and potassium. The blossoms can be made into a wine or fritters. Dandelion roots, made into a tea or added to soups, relieve acne, eczema and water retention by strengthening the liver. Lamb’s-quarters (Chenopodium album)—rich . . . → Read More: Eat Your Weeds! Forage in Your Yard for Edible Wild Plants Leave a comment Country Living, Gardening, Health, Herbs, Home chickweed, chicory, common mallow, dandelion, edible weeds, edible wild plants, field guide, foraging, John Kallas, knotweed, Lamb’s-quarters, Nature’s Garden, nettles, plant guide, plant identification, purslane, Samuel Thayer, The Forager’s Harvest, violet, wild edibles, wild food plants, yellow dock 
©2010 Shanna Ohmes How would you like to set up a garden that takes minimal care, little to no weeding, no digging, and is environmentally and ecologically friendly? Permaculture is a sustainable method of gardening that takes the whole ecological system into account, whether it is your back yard or a forest garden, so . . . → Read More: Food4 Wealth … Suburban Permaculture Style Gardening 
©2010 Shanna Ohmes When you are running your homestead, whether it includes 40 acres or your urban backyard homestead, you are going to need a good set of plans and designs for projects around the home and your animals and garden. In most all the places we have lived, my husband and I have . . . → Read More: Woodworking 4Home Plans and Designs for Woodworking Projects Leave a comment Animals and Livestock, Bookstore, Building and Woodworking, Business Ideas, Country Living, Gardening, Home, Homesteading, Self Reliance, Urban Homesteading backyard homesteading, barns, bee hives, beginner, chicken house, designs, drill press, farm shop, fences, goat milking stands, greenhouse, gun cabinet, hay feeders, kitchen projects, lathe, nesting box, plans, rabbit hutches, raised beds, sheds, urban homesteading, wind generator, Woodworking 4Home, woodworking projects ©2010 Shanna Ohmes Did you know that during the depression and WWII most people grew their own food called Victory Gardens in their yards? It was the way many people could be self-sufficient and afford to feed their families in hard times. Today, there is a growing movement back towards self reliance. . . . → Read More: Urban Homesteading–Back on the Road to Self-Sufficiency Leave a comment Gardening, Home, Homesteading, People, Self Reliance, Urban Homesteading Dervaes family, edible landscaping, Food Revolution, Gardening, organic food, Path to Freedom, pioneers homesteading, pioneers urban farming, Self Reliance, self-sufficiency, urban farming, urban homesteading, Victory Gardens, WWII ©2010 Shanna Ohmes With the new Food Revolution gaining momentum, I thought I would pass along some great videos to watch on the growing Real Food Movement. Below the videos are a link to where you can buy these and others I’ve picked out that have had great reviews and support. Grab a bowl of your . . . → Read More: At the Movies–A Look at Food Documentaries Leave a comment Country Living, Gardening, Healthy Foods, Home, Homestead Kitchen, Homesteading, People, Self Reliance, Urban Homesteading Dirt! The Movie, Fast Food Nation, Fat Head, food documentaries, Food Inc, Food Revolution, Fresh, Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution, King Corn, movie reviews, Our Daily Bread, real food, Real Food Movement, SuperSize Me, The End of the Line, The Future of Food, We Feed the World ©2010 Shanna Ohmes Have you ever eaten flowers? You have if you’ve eaten broccoli or artichokes. Broccoli tops are immature flowers and the artichokes are the leaves of the flower. If you’ve eaten Chinese hot and sour soup, dried day lily petals are the key ingredient. Herbal teas include mint, chamomile, hibiscus, rose petals . . . → Read More: The 10 Most Popular Edible Flowers Leave a comment Country Living, Gardening, Healthy Foods, Herbs, Home, Homestead Kitchen, Self Reliance, Urban Homesteading 10 most popular, books edible flowers, calendula, chives, day lily, eating flowers, edible flowers, edible garden flowers, flower butter recipe, flower cookery, flower dip recipe, flower recipes, garden flowers, herbal teas, mint, nasturtium, pansy, rose, sage, signet marigold, squash blossoms, vegetable dip, What's Cooking America |
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