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Within this site, you can find information on topics such as:
- gardening
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homesteading
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voluntary simplicity
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food preservation
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cooking
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crafts
Members are from all walks of life, but many share the desire to get closer to nature through gardening and/or live a more simple and self-sufficient lifestyle. We're getting back to basics.
If you're interested in more information on getting back to the basics, please visit our sister site: FrugalVillage.com
It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all. - Laura Ingalls Wilder
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Editor's Pick |
Roses can do more than grace our landscapes and floral designs. Like its cousins the apple, pear, peach and cherry, roses produce a fruit. Rose Hips are a valuable source of vitamin C, containing as much as 20 times more vitamin C than oranges. 
There's nothing more tempting than the aroma of hot, fresh homemade bread, straight from the oven! Spread it with butter, jam, jelly or whatever takes your fancy, and you'll be coming back for more—so will everyone else—make plenty! 
Here it is fall and the garden is ready to snooze. Hold it, there is more work to be completed. Some mulching and some pruning. Those fallen leaves and dying annuals are not for the trash but that organic material is black gold for the garden.
Divide and transplant perennials