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  • Backyard FarmingEasy guides to grow vegetables, raise chickens, and farm right in your backyard.
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Urban Hydroponics for Beginners: My Real Story, What Worked, and How You Can Start Today
February 8, 2026
10 Backyard Pollination Mistakes I Made (And How You Can Fix Them Today)
January 21, 2026
Urban Composting Made Easy: Simple Tips for City Homesteaders
January 1, 2026
The Quail Species I’ve Raised, The Ones I and What Every Homesteader Should Know
December 3, 2025
My Real Quail Feeding Routine: What I Actually Do Every Day on the Homestead
December 2, 2025
How I Built a Cheap Backyard Quail Hutch
December 1, 2025
Building a Small Pantry for Food Preservation
November 17, 2025
10 Backyard Vegetable Garden Ideas That Actually Work
November 13, 2025
Living Off the Grid: Your Beginner’s Guide to Self Sufficient Home Systems
November 10, 2025
A beginner’s guide to handling Guinea Hen Eggs
November 9, 2025
A Beginner’s Guide To Raising Guinea Fowl
November 5, 2025
Different Types of Pigs on the Homestead
November 4, 2025
How To Grow curry Leaf Plant At Backyard
November 3, 2025
My Wild Ride with Canning Apple Juice
November 3, 2025
Cornish Cross Chickens: The Fast-Growing Birds That Taught Me Patience
October 27, 2025
My Wild Ride With the Pickle Plant: What I Learned Growing Cucumbers & Pickling Them
October 23, 2025
My Honest Guide on How to Make Rosemary Oil
October 16, 2025
How to Can Pumpkin Cubes (for Puree Later) — Safe & Mess‑Free Guide
October 12, 2025
My Wild Ride with Silver Appleyard Ducks on My Homestead
October 9, 2025
My Backyard Adventure with Lavender Honey
October 8, 2025
How to Grow Goji Berries in Your Yard: What Worked, What Failed & Why They’re Worth It
October 5, 2025
The Best Place to Plant a Berry Tree (From a Guy Who Screwed It Up More Than Once)
September 23, 2025
Small Septic System for Your Homestead: What Worked, What Failed & What I’d Warn My Best Friend
September 14, 2025
What is Permaculture? My Crooked Path Figuring It Out
September 7, 2025
My Messy Journey with Organic Gardening Fertilizer And What Actually Works
September 7, 2025
Best Homesteading States What I Learned Moving, Planting, and Messing Up Along the Way
September 1, 2025
Arugula Companion Plants : What I Learned the Hard Way Growing Salad Greens
August 31, 2025
Onion Companion Plants: What Worked (and What Failed) in My Garden
August 26, 2025
How to Grow Potatoes from Eyes (The Way I Learned the Hard Way)
August 25, 2025
Chicken Nesting Boxes What I Learned the Hard Way (And How You Can Skip the Mistakes)
August 19, 2025
My Honest Journey Building an A Frame Chicken Tractor
August 18, 2025
My Gravity Fed Water System: How I Built It, Broke It, and Finally Got It Right
August 16, 2025
Raising Bantam Chickens: My Real Backyard Experience (The Good, The Messy & The Tiny Eggs)
August 9, 2025
What Are the 12 Principles of Permaculture
August 7, 2025
My Honest Journey with Preserving Tomatoes (And the Mess I Made Along the Way)
August 4, 2025
Backyard Animal Farm The Good the Bad and the Kinda Gross
August 3, 2025
What Are the Legal Challenges of Urban Homesteading?
August 2, 2025
How to Preserve Food Without Refrigeration
August 1, 2025
My Backyard Zoo: Tips for Raising Small Animals in Urban Homesteads
July 31, 2025
My Start With Balcony Gardening And All the Dumb Things I Did
July 29, 2025
The Art of Canning And Preserving The Harvest in a Small Urban Backyard
July 28, 2025
Integrating Permaculture Design Into An Urban Backyard Farm
July 28, 2025
From Garden To Coop How I Added Chickens To My Small Urban Backyard
July 27, 2025
How i Started My Urban Homestead Garden In a Small Backyard
July 25, 2025
Posted inUrban Homesteading

Urban Hydroponics for Beginners: My Real Story, What Worked, and How You Can Start Today

The funny thing about urban hydroponics is that I never planned to get into it. I used to think hydroponics was something rich folks did in shiny glass greenhouses. Meanwhile,…
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Posted by Amanda Harin February 8, 2026
Posted inUrban Homesteading

10 Backyard Pollination Mistakes I Made (And How You Can Fix Them Today)

I gotta be honest with you right from the start. When I first started trying to improve pollination in my backyard homestead, I thought it was just about “getting more…
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Posted by Alonso garmen January 21, 2026
Posted inUrban Homesteading

Urban Composting Made Easy: Simple Tips for City Homesteaders

Urban Composting tips. I’ve been doing the whole homestead thing for more than 10 years now, but honestly, composting in the city taught me more lessons than raising chickens or…
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Posted by Amanda Harin January 1, 2026
Posted inBackyard Farming

The Quail Species I’ve Raised, The Ones I and What Every Homesteader Should Know

Quail Species If you’ve been homesteading long enough, you eventually get pulled into the world of quail. It starts small maybe you want eggs without dealing with noisy hens, or…
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Posted by Amanda Harin December 3, 2025
Posted inBackyard Farming

My Real Quail Feeding Routine: What I Actually Do Every Day on the Homestead

Real Quail Feeding Routine . Let me tell you something right from the start… my real quail feeding routine didn’t come from reading books or watching fancy YouTube farmers. Nah.…
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Posted by Amanda Harin December 2, 2025
Posted inBackyard Farming

How I Built a Cheap Backyard Quail Hutch

Built a Cheap Backyard Quail Hutch I gotta be honest with you right from the start… I didn’t plan to build a quail hutch. Not at all. I only planned…
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Posted by Amanda Harin December 1, 2025
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How to Grow Goji Berries in Your Yard: What Worked, What Failed & Why They’re Worth It

When I first heard about growing goji berries, I thought it was one of those internet fads. You know superfood this, miracle berry that. My wife saw them in some…
Posted by Alonso garmen October 5, 2025
The Best Place to Plant a Berry Tree (From a Guy Who Screwed It Up More Than Once)
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The Best Place to Plant a Berry Tree (From a Guy Who Screwed It Up More Than Once)

I’ll be honest right from the start. The first berry tree I ever planted? Dead in less than a year. I stuck it in the lowest corner of my yard…
Posted by Alonso garmen September 23, 2025
Small Septic System for Your Homestead: What Worked, What Failed & What I’d Warn My Best Friend
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Small Septic System for Your Homestead: What Worked, What Failed & What I’d Warn My Best Friend

When I first messed around with the idea of putting in a small septic system on my homestead, I thought it was gonna be easy. Dig a hole, drop a…
Posted by Alonso garmen September 14, 2025
What is Permaculture? My Crooked Path Figuring It Out
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What is Permaculture? My Crooked Path Figuring It Out

When I first heard the word “permaculture,” I thought it was some fancy gardening club thing where folks wore wide hats and spoke Latin names for plants. Honestly, it sounded…
Posted by Amanda Harin September 7, 2025
My Messy Journey with Organic Gardening Fertilizer And What Actually Works
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My Messy Journey with Organic Gardening Fertilizer And What Actually Works

When I first tried “going organic” in the garden, I thought all I had to do was throw banana peels in the dirt and call it a day. Turns out…
Posted by Amanda Harin September 7, 2025
Best Homesteading States What I Learned Moving, Planting, and Messing Up Along the Way
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Best Homesteading States What I Learned Moving, Planting, and Messing Up Along the Way

When I first got the idea of homesteading, I thought it was just about planting a few tomatoes, maybe some chickens scratching around. Easy, right? Well, not so much. Once…
Posted by Amanda Harin September 1, 2025
Arugula Companion Plants : What I Learned the Hard Way Growing Salad Greens
Posted inUrban Homesteading

Arugula Companion Plants : What I Learned the Hard Way Growing Salad Greens

I’ll be honest with you. The first time I grew arugula, I didn’t even know what it was. Some friend gave me a packet of seeds and said, “It’s fancy…
Posted by Amanda Harin August 31, 2025
Onion Companion Plants: What Worked (and What Failed) in My Garden
Posted inBackyard Farming

Onion Companion Plants: What Worked (and What Failed) in My Garden

Let me tell you a quick story. First time I planted onions, I thought they were the simplest crop on earth. Stick ‘em in the dirt, pull ‘em later, right?…
Posted by Amanda Harin August 26, 2025
How to Grow Potatoes from Eyes (The Way I Learned the Hard Way)
Posted inUrban Homesteading

How to Grow Potatoes from Eyes (The Way I Learned the Hard Way)

If you’ve ever opened your pantry and found old potatoes staring back at you with those creepy little sprouts, don’t throw ‘em out. That’s the start of free food right…
Posted by Alonso garmen August 25, 2025
Chicken Nesting Boxes What I Learned the Hard Way (And How You Can Skip the Mistakes)
Posted inBackyard Farming

Chicken Nesting Boxes What I Learned the Hard Way (And How You Can Skip the Mistakes)

If you keep chickens for more than five minutes, you’ll learn one big truth: hens are picky about where they lay their eggs. They’ll ignore the expensive box you built,…
Posted by Alonso garmen August 19, 2025

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