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Dandelions: 31+ Medicinal and Culinary Uses for the King of Weeds
This article originally posted on The Grow Network is part of a series on weed gardens and identifying and using the plants you’ll often find

New Study: Women Sleep Better With A Dog in the Bed
Dogs are an important part of any homestead. They protect our livestock, make us aware of approaching visitors, and run off snakes when we walk

Build a Barn Style Greenhouse With These Step By Step Instructions
If you live where winter temperatures are well below freezing, a greenhouse allows you to grow plants year-round. You can plant cool-weather fall and winter

What Could It Cost to Live Tiny?
The average price of a house in the United States is $200,000. That alone is a very good reason why many people are looking to downsize.

Dandelion Uses: The Power of Weeds!
Dandelions: The Power of Weeds and other Flowers! Click the photo or here for the article. Click the photo or here for the article. Click

Lifelong Friends Build their Own Tiny-Home Community
Real, authentic adult friendships are so precious, and sadly, pretty uncommon these days too. Modern society is set up for mobility that has to do with

Raw Milk Recipes
When I was growing up, my best friend lived on a dairy farm. Every day after school, we would ride the bus to her house

Companion Planting Romance: Tomatoes Love Basil
Companion planting in gardening and agriculture is the planting of different crops in proximity for the benefit of both plants such as pest control, pollination,

These 10 Companies Own Almost All of the Brands You Use
Walking into the grocery store, gas station, or restaurant, one is presented with a wide variety of food and beverage choices, but most don’t realize

Making Herbal Medicine at Home
Are you frustrated with the medical system? Do you believe it is too expensive and often does more harm than good? Would you like to

20 Uses For Breast Milk I Bet You Didn’t Know
I haven’t had kids yet but I do know the value of breastmilk at least as far as a food source for the baby is

Cocolmeca: The Miracle Vine for Caregiving and Sickeness
I love a good ethobotanical adventure and Mexico is full of them. Today, while near the central market, we stumbled (nearly literally) on a pile
