Gardening: Grow Haus II
The amount of water you and Mother Nature can provide for your garden determines if you can eat, or grow weeds. This article will illustrate water resources on your property that you may be unaware of.
Gardening: Constructing the Grow Haus
The term: Grow Haus is my own, coined in 1970 in a paper I wrote. There has been a great deal of thought and experimentation since the early model, but now is the unveiling. The goal was to create a solar design, with no external heat, reduced fertilizer, natural processes and under bed watering for […]
Gardening: Weather and Water
Quite often the gardener, or commercial grower assumes that there is enough water, perhaps through wells, rain or watersheds. A great deal of time and money is lost and more will certainly become lost in years to come if we do not understand nature’s process, and make new plans for food production.
2009: Topics of concern
2008 was a year of introduction to gardening and herbs for the beginning gardener who is concerned about real time food production. The events in the world’s economy, now striking here warrants we must accelerate our Back2theLand advice on how to grow more food, store it, and form a seed savers exchange.
Special Report: Winter Survival-the EMERGENCY BAG
Wooly Worms and the National Weather say it will be a miserable winter. Last night we had a touch of winter breath with wind chills to –19F at my farm in Floyd. This article is to advise and suggest to new folk in the area about preparing for winter as well as being prepared to […]
Your Money: Caveat Emptor I
When I was a young fellow and working my way through Law School I worked in the Finance and Insurance Industry. This article is about your money and how to avoid traps that can cost you tens of thousands of dollars and becoming homeless.
Recipes: Winter Squash and Sweets
Usually our summers are hot, dry and promote a long growing season for sweet potatoes. If you want to grow your own “slips” January is the time to start. Winter Squash is everyone’s favorite too. It is time to pull them out from under your beds like Grandma did, and start eating.
GOUT: Gouty Arthritis and Osteoarthritis
I have not had a bout of gout for some years but this one is uncomfortable-an all over body ache, with joints and old bone injuries on fire. Fortunately for me, and I hope fortunate for Dear Reader, we heed early signs and start the rules of controlling this disease.