Most Recent Microfarming Articles

Uses for Cat Litter in a Prepper World

Cat litter has some very practical uses in the prepper world and may come in handy in emergency situations. Read these tips on ways to incorporate cat litter into your preps to help protect, reduce odors, stains, and help your garden grow.

Amp Up Your Compost Bin with Brand-Name Products

Did you know that your brand-name household products have more than it’s intended use? Rather than running out to the expensive garden center, simply look into your pantry and you are bound to find a more economic substitute to what you were looking for. Here are 11 brand-name products that can be used to amp up your compost bin.

Child Friendly Livestock

There is some discussion about the idea of livestock being an ideal alternative to the family dog or cat. While I do not agree on livestock animals becoming family pets, I do appreciate the research that went into which animals are child-friendly. See why these three livestock animals are family friendly.

Is Another Biblical Plague On Its Way?

It’s not enough that we are battling a food shortage, but now we will have to protect what is left of our food from cicadas. Learn some natural ways to repel this nuissance from your garden.

9 Things to Consider Before You Ever Grow a Survival Garden

Survival gardening will be labor intensive, and large amounts of energy (sweat) will be needed to make a survival garden work. In exchange for your energy and time, you will want a survival garden that will provide your family abundantly with food. Keeping certain factors into consideration before starting a survival garden will help you get the most out your garden, provide you and your family with the healthiest vegetable varieties, and help you find the easiest types of vegetables to grow.

10 Easy Survival Seeds to Grow

Those who have started their survival gardens have no doubt learned from a few garden mistakes along the way. Yet through these mistakes, gardeners have stumbled upon wisdom and grown into better gardeners. These experienced gardeners have taken certain factors into consideration before the seeds are planted, and through experience found which vegetables varieties are easier to grow.

Improve Your Soil Naturally

Utilizing the way the forest creates soil could be the secret to growing healthy plants. Re-creating the forest floor and it’s different types of layers allows for a complex mix of essential ingredients needed to create living soil. Knowing what nutrients are needed to create living, viable soil will not only enhance the performance of the plants, but create a living soil environment for beneficial insects to thrive.

Grow Against the System

Many may not be aware of a food revolution slowly growing in popularity around the nation. There are some people who feel that our food is under attack by large agriculture corporations. This revolution is advocating people to take back control over their food sources and begin teaching the next generation more self reliant practices. Rather than thinking as a group, teach the next generation to think as an individual.

Characteristics of a Survival Homestead

What characteristics go into finding a survival retreat? Author, James Rawles’ provides key characteristics to look for when searching out the perfect acerage for a survival retreat.

A Guide To Creating a No-Till Garden

No-till gardneing has many names, but they all have the same result — good, healthy soil. This efficient method of gardening makes calculated additions to the soil to condition it and create a welcome environment for beneficial insects. It also benefits to the gardener as it less back breaking than other gardening methods.