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10 Fast-Growing Vegetables
If you love to garden, but live in a region with a short growing season, you can still successfully grow vegetables outdoors in the homestead garden. Fresh scallions, chives, lettuce, spinach, basil, and radishes are all fast-growing veggies that are easy to grow, easy to harvest, and easy to sell as a supplemental cash crop.…
How to Reduce Food Waste
Like many other college students (back in the day), I was a summer camp counselor. Though I loved the job, there was one specific task I absolutely hated. It wasnโt the cheesy skits, it wasnโt dealing with sleepwalking campers, and it wasnโt screaming those stupid camp songs for the 10 thousandth time. It was cleaning…
Growing Spinach
Originally hailing from 4th-century Persia, spinach has a long and storied past as a health tonic, a poor manโs food, a favorite of big-forearmed sailor men, and a choice food of health gurus. We are constantly hearing about how important it is to eat your leafy greens, and for good reasonโtheyโre fantastic for you and…