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Category: Gardening
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Farming in the Desert
This week on the We Grow Ours show, Nick and Don are talking farming in the desert. It is a timely topic when you consider the California drought, and a lack of water in Arizona. The guys wanted to give some ideas on how to farm with little water. Farming in the Desert...
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Aquaponics from Down Under
The guys are talking Aquaponics from Down Under on this week’s We Grow Ours show. Nick and Don welcome Paul Van Der Werf to the show to chat about the aquaponics industry and commercial aquaponics. Remember if you’re in Phoenix you can catch the show on Independent Talk 1100 am KNFX every Sunday at 1:00...
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Grow Your Own Food Summit
The Phoenix Grow Your Own Food Summit is coming next month. This week on the We Grow Ours Show, the guys have Kari and Greg from the GrowPhx Summit. If you want to know how to turn your backyard into a food producing oasis – this could be the summit for you. Speakers in...
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Survival Gardening with Rick Austin
Survival Gardening, are you doing it? Rick Austin is and he wants to teach you the whys and hows of this ever-growing branch of the prepper community. Survival gardening is an important step in your prepping plan – just like live food storage with your rabbits and other livestock. Rick was once a traditional apple...
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Small Livestock Integration
Small Livestock Integration On this episode of We Grow Ours the topic is Small Livestock Integration. Using nature as the example this way of raising livestock creates a natural self-regulating organism. The goal is to create a system that has very little input and produces the maximum amount of food. But this integration is more...
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Will Allen of Growing Power, Inc.
Will Allen of Growing Power, Inc. Will Allen of Growing Power, Inc joins the We Grow Ours podcast this week. You might recognize Will from the movie Fresh. Will is an the founder and CEO of Growing Power Inc with several urban gardens. He is also teacher and proponent of the urban farm movement in...
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Bees and Monsanto
Bees and Monsanto Today we bring you the second part of the bee series – bees and Monsanto. Dan Punch joins Nick and Don on this podcast. A beekeeper and rescuer, Dan knows bees; including “Africanized” bees. What’s a colony collapse? What is Monsanto doing to the bees? What about neonicotinoids and pesticides? Dan shares...
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Beekeeping & Beepods
Beekeeping and the BeePod Beekeeping and the BeePod on this episode of We Grow Ours. Join the guys as they talk about these amazing furry creatures that are so important to our food system. They’ll also be discussing the crisis that bees are in right now and why we should all be concerned about the...
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Aquaponics with Sylvia Bernstein
Aquaponics with Sylvia Bernstein Sylvia Bernstein literally wrote the book on Aquaponics! On this episode of We Grow Ours the guys get a chance to sit down and talk to the “godmother” of aquaponics. She is going to share the science involved in aquaponics and the current industry.
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Agriscaping
Agriscaping Agriscaping – we didn’t make that word up. Agriscaping is the art of making your food producing yard look like a masterpiece your neighbor’s will love. On his 6th episode of We Grow Ours, Nick and Don are talking with Justin Rohner of iAgriscape as he shares on creating a yard that will grow a...
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Quail and Prepping
Quail and Prepping On this episode of We Grow Ours we talk Quail and Prepping with Scott Yarosh. We’re talking prepping styles, reasons behind prepping and food storage. Then Scott of the Yarosh homestead shares his expert knowledge on raising quail on the backyard homestead.
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The Black Soldier Fly
The Black Soldier Fly Come find out how the black soldier fly can help you on your homestead. This episode we welcome Karl from Compostemania.com and thebiopod.com and a black soldier fly expert!
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FAQ’s with We Grow Ours
FAQ’s From We Grow Ours The We Grow Ours Podcast is answering FAQ’s this week! As you know Nick from Hostile Hare is part of the awesome duo that is We Grow Ours. This week they are answering questions from their listeners. This week’s FAQ’s cover rabbits, goats, aquaponics and more. Want to ask your...
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Rebel Canning
Rebel Canning We’re talking rebel canning on this week’s We Grow Ours show. Our guest is Ann of A Farm Girl in the Making who will be explaining rebel canning as she encourages our pursuits in homesteading. Canning can and should be part of your homesteading and prepping plans! See more about Ann on her...
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Survival Gardening
Survival Gardening Is survival gardening part of your prepping plan? While we are advocates of creating a survival pantry those are eventually going to run out. So today we bring you tips for your one survival garden. Of course we also think your survival homestead should include rabbits. Check out this episode on Small Live Integration:
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What is Bokashi?
On the latest episode of We Grow Ours we are talking Bokashi! What is Bokashi? Bokashi is an accelerated way to compost and have that black gold ready for your garden beds. We welcome Morgan of Bokashi Evolution and get all the Bokashi deatail. Come check out the podcast now! Episode 38 – Join the compost...
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Fodder for Feeding Food
Fodder for Feeding Food Fodder for feeding didn’t happen for me overnight. When I started out raising rabbits I took the route of every first time cuniculturist, I bought a bag of rabbit pellets and started feeding 4 ounces a day. It was easy, affordable, and functional. My first four does I had in a...
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Pick Your Poison
“Pick your poison” the bartender grunted with half a smirk as he washed cups behind the bar, it was probably the most clever thing he’d come up with all day. I really doubt he knew how long that line would last in my mind. I must have been 6-7...
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Using Coffee Grounds In Your Garden
Using coffee grounds in your garden can produce some amazing effects. If you’re gardening, you’ll want to consider these tips; even if you aren’t a coffee drinker.
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Preppers Should Be Storing Lime
Preppers Should Be Storing Lime Are you already asking yourself why preppers should be storing lime? It is a valid question if you are not a familiar with Agricultural and Quicklime benefits for gardening, livestock, blacksmithing/smelting and more. Preparedness Advice has a lot of good information on this very topic. Read the article now.
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Three Pillars of Independance
A motivational drive to the survivalist life is independence. Some folks, including myself, want to know they can make it on their own. We stock pile food, ammo, guns and other supplies we feel are pertinent to our independent survival. So now you do the same… you pile it up, prep it out and wait...
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Heirloom Seed Providers – Avoid GMOs
If you want to grow a healthy garden, free of Genetically Modified Organisms (aka GMOs) then your best bet it to purchase seeds. You want to make sure that you’re buying quality heirlooms seeds from a reputable supplier. Rural Spin has a timely article on just this and a list of 31 heirloom seed...
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Homestead Management
I would venture to say that anyone that thinks homesteading is easy, isn’t doing it. It is a lot of hands on work and is often a labor of love. Half the battle is accepting that all your work may result in failures and flops but you must keep going. It will help to have...
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Crop Rotation Benefits the Backyard Survival Garden
If you’re growing a survival garden in your backyard then learning more about crop rotation is important for the health of that garden. “When I started gardening I never heard the term “crop rotation”. It was never mentioned in the books or blogs that I was reading either. But now, with some years under my...
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Saving Your Heirloom Tomato Seeds
With all the information we have on GMOs now, it is important to being using and saving our non-gmo heirloom seeds. “You purchase the seeds once and then, because of the beauty of God’s design, you can save the seeds to plant year after year to feed your family. Didn’t I mention that heirloom seeds are awesome? They’re...
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Growing Garlic on Your Homestead
Garlic is probably one of my favorite flavor “enhancers”. I can’t think of too many dinner dishes that I leave out the garlic. Fresh, homegrown, garlic is some of the best you’ll ever add to your dishes and it is surprisingly easy to grow. How to Plant Garlic “I sorted through my garlic and pulled...
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Why Heirloom Veggies Are Better For Backyard Homesteading
It is more than avoiding GMOs – heirloom veggies are better for the backyard homestead. “There are two ways that heirloom seeds save money; they cost less than their hybrid counterparts, and you can save the seeds from year-to-year, thereby cutting seed costs. Hybrid seeds are the result of deliberately crossing different varieties (think labor...
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The Keyhole Raised Garden
If you’re a backyard gardener, like myself, you’ve probably already put in a raised bed garden. But have you tried a Keyhole Garden? “Raised bed gardening is my favorite way to garden. I love the ease of set up, harvesting is a snap and, if you set your beds up right, there is little weeding to be done. Making a keyhole garden uses all...
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Recycled Seed Starting Containers
This article TOTALLY appeals to my cheapness!!! It’s frugaliscious!!! Anyway, gardening can be an expensive venture if you go “No-Limit” on it, buying every doohicky and thingamabob thats recomended by the “experts.” If gardening is costing you more than buying healthy food, you might be doing it wrong. Even growing food for feeding your rabbits...
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Super Garlic!
My first thought when I hear “garlic” is vampires and italian food… But apparently its much more useful than warding off the sparkly immortals and cooking fine cuisine!!! I still might keep some around incase my creppy New Zealand white rabbits with the red eyes escapes their cages… I’m pretty sure they’re blood suckers… “Garlic...
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12 Inspiring Square Foot Gardening Plans
Gardening is an interesting hobby. When you have some nice vegetable pots you will derive lots of pleasure by watching their lush growth. At the same time, you will save money and will be able to cook vegetables picked up from your own home garden. But what if you live in an urban area...
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Top Ten Survival Foods You Should Grow
Can you live off your land if there’s an emergency? Can you meet your food needs for even a few weeks? Planning perennial agriculture systems, such as food forests, along with getting some chickens is a really good plan long-term – but if you had to start gardening like it’s the end of the world – right...
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5 Small Garden Tips to Save You Time & Money
Small gardens can be a lot of fun and produce valuable sustenance for you and your family. Preparing a garden, planting a garden, and maintaining a garden are all very different tasks, with different requirements. Nearly all of these tasks will cost a little bit in time and in money. We recently planted our first garden in...