Like many gardeners, when Autumn comes around I obsessively check my weather app for signs of frost or a hard freeze. I put a lot of work into growing a late summer and fall garden, and know that my future harvest depends on protecting plants from frost.
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10 Ways to Protect Plants from Frost and Extend Your Harvest
Building Our Home: The Basement
To tell the story of a simple basement I should backtrack to the beginning of our time here in Vermont.
We moved here in August 2018 with a few plans in place: A beautiful rental house, a school we adored, and the knowledge that some close friends from Oregon and Missouri lived nearby.
After ...
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The Best Apples for Hard Cider
As we select fruit trees for our homestead orchard, I’m considering how we will actually use the fruit we grow. With apples, for instance, one of the primary ways we preserve and enjoy apples is making hard apple cider. So, as I research apple varieties that will do well in our zone 4 climate, I’m ...
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17 Uses for Crabapples Your Family Will Love
Wandering around my new workplace, a dairy farm turned apple orchard turned school, I have been wondering how I can make use of the dozens of crabapple trees growing on the land. Crabapples are common throughout the United States, often found in neighborhoods and backyards, but like me, few people ...
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