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If you’ve ever dreamed of homesteading but don’t know how to get started, farm apprenticeships are a great way to learn skills, meet experienced farmers and try your hand at the homesteading life. Here are 6 farm apprenticeships with upcoming deadlines that you might be interested in applying for. The Maine Organic Farmer and Growers Association Apprenticeship in locations throughout Maine The Maine Organic Farmer and Growers Association (MOFGA) has an apprenticeship program targeted a

Can you imagine being able to harvest vegetables from your garden a month before your neighbors? What if you could have a garden magically pop up in spring without buying a single seedling or getting your hands dirty in the spring? This is all possible if you use a method called pre-seeding. What is Pre-Seeding? Pre-seeding is when you plant seeds for your spring garden in late fall or early winter. In essence, you plant the seeds for next year’s garden the year be

If you find the idea of combining the best of vegetable gardening with natural landscaping, you’re probably ready to turn your growing space into a permaculture garden. Here’s how to get started with permaculture. Permaculture is a design system that works with the natural patterns in nature as you build up a garden that’s self-sustaining and less dependent on external additives like chemical fertilizers or outside water supplies. “Permaculture is the tool and process we use that begins w

It’s kind of a miracle that my first-ever delphiniums survived their maiden winter in Alaska. I had purchased them at the Home Depot, planted them, and then sat back and happily watched the spikes bloom in gorgeous shades of purple and blue against my red house. When September came, dragging increasingly chilly nights along with it, the delphiniums died back. And then… I just left them there. Tall, scraggly, and brown, without any mulch to speak of. Unless you