BlogHide Resteemsraydiant-acres (49)in homesteading • 6 years agoBig Bad HogsWe are raising six hogs this year on our homestead. Last year we raised two hogs and enjoyed it so much that we decided to triple our fun and raise six this year, selling the extra hogs to friends…raydiant-acres (49)in homesteading • 6 years agoSeed Saving for Self-SufficiencyDo you grow a garden and save the seeds from the food you grow? This is something we've started doing. Many plants are very easy to save seed from. Lettuce is one of them. In this video, we talk…raydiant-acres (49)in homesteading • 7 years agoLearn how blackberries growIt's blackberry season in our neck of the woods (Nashville, TN area). In this quick video, we show you how blackberries grow and how many blackberry bushes you need in order to have a good harvest…raydiant-acres (49)in homesteading • 7 years agoOur First Festival BoothWe began homesteading for one main purpose: to grow our own food. However, along the way we've grown more than we need of some items. Not enough to have a farmers market stand or our own regular…raydiant-acres (49)in homesteading • 7 years agoGrowing PeanutsI'll bet dollars to donuts most people don't know how peanuts grow. We didn't know either, till we decided to grow them in our garden this year. Take a look at this quick video to learn! I bet…raydiant-acres (49)in permaculture • 7 years agoFood Forest Tour"What's a food forest?" you say. It's a garden you plant full of perennial plants that come back year after year and provide food and/or medicine. It's called a forest because - as in a forest -…raydiant-acres (49)in gardening • 7 years agoTour of our 2018 GardenAfter what seemed like an unending winter, we finally have our vegetable garden in the ground. In this video I take you through the approximately 2000 square feet of space we've dedicated to annual…raydiant-acres (49)in universal-income • 7 years agoIs Universal Basic Income for real?I recently heard about Manna, a Universal Basic Income built on blockchain. You get weekly distributions of a cryptocurrency just for being human. Honestly, this is outside my wheelhouse of…raydiant-acres (49)in homesteading • 7 years agoRaising Chickens for MeatWe are on a mission to provide nearly all of our own family's food. Not many first-world people nowadays know how to do that. Meat, especially, raises some obstacles that most are not willing to…raydiant-acres (49)in gardening • 7 years agoGrowing Rice in Tennessee?This year our garden has been full of experiments: wheat, spelt, oats, luffa sponge gourds, flax, amaranth, rice. Rice? But doesn't that require a flooded plain? There are actually a few varieties…
