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How To Get Started With Organic Vegetable Gardening // Step 1: Planning

2/22/2021

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How To Get Started With Organic Vegetable Gardening Step One: Planning
Getting started with organic vegetable gardening can feel overwhelming, but if you are looking for an excuse to get outside and be more active, then gardening is a step in the right direction. Whether you have 1/2 an acre or upwards of 20 acres, planting a garden to provide you with healthy delicious food surprisingly only takes a bit of planning with a pencil and paper plus some (much needed) time in the sun tending to it. In this post, I’m going to show you how I got myself organized to try my hand at organic gardening. ​Are you ready to plan your pants off?!

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How To Put Chickens To Work In The Garden

9/1/2020

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How To Put Chickens To Work In The Garden
There is nothing more wonderful for a gardener than sharing the love of gardening with another. In this case, we are talking about sharing that love with your chickens! Not only will chickens love to be included in your garden, but they also can take some of the gardening work off your shoulders. In this post, we will go over how you can work with your chicken’s instincts to prep and clean up your garden during the growing season, fertilize your soil, and till your cover crops under when the timing is right.

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How We Planned Out Our Five-Acre Homestead

5/17/2020

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How Can You Turn Five-Acres Of Land Into A Homestead?
Figuring out how to use your existing property, or a brand new piece of land, and turn it into a homestead can be a daunting task. In this post, I’m going to share with you how we planned out our homestead on five acres over the course of five years. It’s so fun to see where we started when we first purchased our land, and then five years later, how everything turned out. 

We’ll go over:
  • How we utilized the existing land and outbuildings
  • How we put in a homestead garden and orchard
  • What tools and machinery we've found to be essential for homesteading
  • How we integrated chickens over the course of five years on our homestead

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How To Build Food Security For Your Family In Less Than 30 Days - Week 4

4/28/2020

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How to build food security for your family week 4
Welcome back to Week 4 of our 30-Day Food Security Plan. Can you believe it's been a month since we started learning about gardening, chicken keeping, foraging, and homemaking?  I have been loving teaching you everything I know about food security and this week is no different. In this final post in our 30-Day Food Security Plan you will learn (click to jump!):
  • How to fertilize and protect your garden from pests
  • The top four medical supplies you need in your chicken vet bag
  • How to locally source herbs, liquor, and baked goods
  • How to make yogurt at home
  • The absolute best organic gardening, chicken keeping, and homemaking books

If you just found this series, be sure to head back to Week 1 so you can learn how this 30-Day Food Security Plan works and get started on the right foot!

I want you to remember that you are completely capable of starting something new (like making your own yogurt). Sure, you're probably going to make some mistakes in the process as you learn but the payoff is worth it.  Doing these things with a loved one or your kids will bring you some fun and purpose during this uncertain time. Let’s dive into Week 4!

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How To Build Food Security In Less Than 30 Days - Week 2

4/10/2020

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Learn how to build food security for your family with this 30 day plan
Welcome back to Week 2 on how to build food security for your family in less than 30 days. In Week 2 of our Food Security Plan, I am going to teach you the straightforward step-by-step on (click to jump!):
  • Where to put your vegetable garden
  • How to build raised garden beds
  • How to start seeds indoors
  • How to plant fruit trees with perennials
  • How to care for chicks during their first week of life
  • How to locally source food for your family

To head back to Week 1 of this series to learn about food security, its inherent limitations, and how this four-part series works click here.

I want you to remember that you are completely capable of starting something new (like chicken keeping). Sure, you're probably going to make some mistakes in the process as you learn but the payoff is worth it!  Doing these things with a loved one or your kids will bring you some fun and purpose during this uncertain time. Let’s dive into Week 2!

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How To Build Food Security For Your Family In Less Than 30 Days - Week 1

4/3/2020

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How to build food security for your family in less than 30 days
If you are here to learn how you can build food security for your family in less than 30 days, you are in the right place. When I started out with homesteading six years ago, I knew that food security was important to me. Never did I guess that our entire world would come to a standstill and leave the majority of our society scrambling to build food security for themselves and their families.

For decades, homesteading has been a way for families to increase their self sufficiency not just out of rejection of a failing industrialized food system, but out of our love for the land, our connection with animals, and our focus on growing nutritious and safe food.

This 30-day Food Security Plan will be broken up into four weeks. We will focus on Week 1 in this post. For the next four weeks, I will share with you the simple and straightforward things you can do to boost your family's food security during this uncertain time. So if you are in need of guidance and help navigating how to get started with your first veggie garden or your first flock of chickens - you are in the right place!

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Episode 15 - The five surprising reasons to get started with organic vegetable gardening

5/13/2019

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The five surprising reasons to get started with organic vegetable gardening - The Positively Green Podcast
If you have been thinking this is the year to get your first organic vegetable garden started, then we have the perfect episode to give you the final push. Discover the five surprising reasons to get your first vegetable garden going and how gardening can have a positive impact on your health, community, and the environment.
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Show Notes:

  • How gardening can actually reduce your plastic waste
  • What food miles are and how what you eat produces carbon emissions
  • Why choosing organic over conventional gardening is better for your health and the environment
  • How getting out in the sun when your gardening can help reduce low back pain
  • What resources are the best to get you started with organic gardening

Blogs and Books:

Kelsey’s Five-Part Blog Series on Organic Gardening
The All New Square Foot Garden
The Vegetable Gardener’s Bible

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Episode 11 - Ask Us Anything! Listener Q + A

3/18/2019

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Episode 11 of The Positively Green Podcast
​In this episode, Kelsey and Becca answer listeners’ questions on everything from gardening to soap to getting your significant other on board to live a greener lifestyle.
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Show Notes:

Laundry + Dishes
Buckaroo Organics Soapberry Detergent
Wool Dryer Balls
Redecker Beechwood Pot and Dish Brushes
Better Life Dish Soap
Seventh Generation
Dr. Bronner’s

CBD Facial Oil
https://www.healthyskinglows.com/cbd-oil-stress-acne-21-day-experiment/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4151231/
https://khus-khus.com/products/sen-face-serum

Becca’s Safety Razor Post

Kelsey's ebook The Holistic Home

Stella and Chewy’s Dog Food
Becca’s Natural Dog Product Faves

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How To Get Started With Organic Vegetable Gardening // Step 5: Providing

7/26/2018

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How to get started with organic vegetable gardening
So you’ve got your organic garden planted, and seedlings are popping out of the soil left and right - what do you do next to stay on top of your garden’s needs? That’s what we’re covering in this post, how to provide for your organic garden to ensure a bountiful harvest all through the growing season. We’ll discuss watering, mulching, fertilizing, and weeding. This post includes my tried and true comfrey compost fertilizer tea recipe too.

To start at the very beginning of this garden blogging series, head to my first post here.

Let’s dive in!

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The Top 5 Reasons You Should Start An Organic Vegetable Garden

6/19/2018

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The top five reasons you should start gardening organically
​So you’ve looked at that sunny patch of lawn or abandoned raised bed for a few years and have wondered, what if I finally started that vegetable garden I’ve been dreaming of? I’m here to give you a big old nudge to get going! There are so many joys to starting a vegetable garden, from learning more about how things grow to that first delicious bite of a tomato fresh off the vine. In this blog post, I want to go deeper than the obvious pleasures of gardening and teach you about what I think the top five reasons are you should start your own organic vegetable garden.

Tune into the Positively Green Podcast Episode 15: The Five Surprising Reasons To Start Your Organic Vegetable Garden.

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