Category: Gardening

Time for Garden Planning for Next Year!

Are you starting your garden planning for next year? While there’s still some growing time left this season, many things in the garden are starting to shut down so this is a good time to look ahead to next year’s season. Here are some resources for seeds, garden beds, and fertilizer to help:

If you’re wondering where to buy next year’s seed, or maybe wishing you could find good seed collections of various varieties, Survival Garden Seeds provides non-GMO, open-pollinated, heirloom seeds of many varieties, and offers seed collections to help you plan your garden of any size. Use this link to visit and shop Survival Garden Seeds’ web site: https://survivalgardenseeds.com/?ref=SSB10

Survival Garden Seeds has a 15% site-wide Labor Day Sale from September 2-8. When they don’t otherwise have a sale the link, above, will get 10% off of the following collections:
Home Garden
Homesteader
Farmer
Ultimate Medicinal
Kids’ Easy Garden

See my Video, below, for more information.

If you’re wanting to add raised beds to your garden, Hopkins Homestead Store has high quality, steel raised beds which are 100% made in America. Shop their beds at https://www.hopkinshomesteadstore.com/ and use code “SODBUSTER” at checkout for 5% off.

To feed your plants, AgroThrive Organic Fertilizers offers organic, bio-based fertilizers. Check out the AgroThrive products at https://agrothrive.com/?ref=uRNzrygLLaPgAO

Ozarks Homesteading Expo 2024

It’s almost time for the Ozarks Homesteading Expo, which will be on September 6-7, 2024 at the Webster County Fairgrounds in Marshfield, MO. This will be a fantastic event for anyone wanting to learn to live a more independent, sustainable life. There are many great speakers scheduled, demonstrations of traditional skills such as animal processing, wood milling, blacksmithing, etc., and over 150 vendors with goods to equip your sustainable life.

Visit ozarkshomesteading.com for more information and to buy tickets to the Expo.

I’ll have a booth at the Expo, where I’ll have books, Layens hives and swarm traps available, along with a new hive stand available for the first time. I’ll also be speaking at 2:00 pm on Saturday on the topic: “Keeping Bees Doesn’t Have to be Hard”. I hope you’ll come by to say hi!

The new hive stand, described in the video below, has been developed by Kris Hopkins of hopkinshomesteadstore.com, where the Hopkins family sells high quality steel raised garden beds. Visit their website and use code “SODBUSTER” for a 5% discount.