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Your Garden’s Soil pH Matters

Ensuring that your soil pH is appropriate for the types of plants you are planting in your garden is an important step to archeiving success with your food production.

Use a DIY Soil Test Kit or send of samples to a state soil-testing lab to find out what you are working with. The following article gives your a great summary of knowledge for working with soil pH and what you need to do to change pH to accommodate your plants.

http://www.motherearthnews.com/organic-gardening/soil-ph-zm0z14amzkin.aspx

Your Garden’s Soil pH Matters

Ensuring that your soil pH is appropriate for the types of plants you are planting in your garden is an important step to archeiving success with your food production.

http://www.motherearthnews.com/organic-gardening/soil-ph-zm0z14amzkin.aspx

Is there arsenic in your drinking water?

A good reminder that we need to be vigilant about the quality of our drinking water and have periodic checks of private water sources to ensure one's health and well being.

The article includes a nice interactive mapping feature to search for your location and get a baseline view of the issue.

http://www.treehugger.com/clean-water/there-arsenic-your-drinking-water-if-you-have-private-well-get-it-tested.html

Is there arsenic in your drinking water?

A good reminder that we need to be vigilant about the quality of our drinking water and have periodic checks of private water sources to ensure one's health and well being.

The article includes a nice interactive mapping feature to search for your location and get a baseline view of the issue.

http://www.treehugger.com/clean-water/there-arsenic-your-drinking-water-if-you-have-private-well-get-it-tested.html

50 Garden Ideas

A list of great tips and projects to make you a better gardener and improve the color of your green thumb.

http://momsbyheart.net/50-garden-tips-ideas/

50 Garden Ideas

A list of great tips and projects to make you a better gardener and improve the color of your green thumb.

http://momsbyheart.net/50-garden-tips-ideas/

How To Make And Can Vegetable Broth

As a base for many soups, stews and other delicious recipes, vegi broth is a great item to stock in your deep pantry. This tutorial lays out all the steps to making and canning your own stockpile of healthy broth. Happy Canning!

http://arewecrazyorwhat.net/make-can-vegetable-broth/

How To Make And Can Vegetable Broth

http://arewecrazyorwhat.net/make-can-vegetable-broth/

12 Survival Hacks Using Just Leaves

A lot of great uses and ideas of how to use leaves and vegetation in survival situations. From rope, to cooking, and even for shelter.

http://willowhavenoutdoor.com/featured-wilderness-survival-blog-entries/12-survival-hacks-using-just-leaves/

12 Survival Hacks Using Just Leaves

A lot of great uses and ideas of how to use leaves and vegetation in survival situations. From rope, to cooking, and even for shelter.

http://willowhavenoutdoor.com/featured-wilderness-survival-blog-entries/12-survival-hacks-using-just-leaves/

How to Make Lard and Lye Soap

A simple tutorial on how to make soap using the most basic of ingredients.

http://survival.outdoorlife.com/blogs/survivalist/2014/05/survival-skills-how-make-lard-and-lye-soap

How to Make Lard and Lye Soap

A simple tutorial on how to make soap using the most basic of ingredients.

http://survival.outdoorlife.com/blogs/survivalist/2014/05/survival-skills-how-make-lard-and-lye-soap

12 Ways to Repurpose Soda Cans

A lot of great ideas on how to use recycled cans and re-purpose a useful resource that you find along the roadside.

http://preparednessadvice.com/uncategorized/12-ways-repurpose-soda-cans/#.U5Xvq_bc2kZ

12 Ways to Repurpose Soda Cans

A lot of great ideas on how to use recycled cans and re-purpose a useful resource that you find along the roadside.

http://preparednessadvice.com/uncategorized/12-ways-repurpose-soda-cans/#.U5Xvq_bc2kZ

10 Reasons to Keep a Garden Journal

It is always a good idea to keep a journal of what you are doing in the garden and around the homestead from year to year. Especially when you want to look back at what you have planted in the past and all the hard work you have done over the years. Here are 10 reasons to keep a garden journal.

http://preparednessmama.com/keep-a-garden-journal/