Growing sweet potato from cuttings

 Growing sweet potatoes from slips is super easy.  Easy if you can get the potato to sprout!

Roasting your own coffee

Roasting your own coffee is the best!  You should totally do it!   It tastes way better and you end up going to Starbucks a whole lot less.  Roasting can be done in a pan, on a stove top popcorn popper, in an air popper, in the oven, or in a professional roaster.  I've done the first three.  The air popper was so easy, I stopped there.  Here's how this all works .......

Make your own beehive.

Home made hive boxes are super easy if you have a table saw and a template.  I do a simpler joint but I've been using mine for 6 years and they still keep kickin.  Normally these boxes go for $15, but you can make your's for under $4 or sometimes free.  Here's how.

Starting seeds

Its a little late, but not too late to start your cold season seeds.  This includes Peppers, Broccoli, Cabbage, Cauliflower, and Eggplant for me. 

OK! So In the above picture we have pepper seed a towel and a pen.  Make sure your ink does not dissolve in water!  Just write on a towel and test, it will be obvious.  Make sure to label if you got lots of varieties.  What I show here with peppers can be done with all the vegetables. 

Winter Gardening

There isn't much you can do garden wise in January : (

If you're really feinding you can sprout your sweet potatoes and grow long shoots for later splitting.
Or you can dig you favorite roots of wild greens like poke, or dock for sprouting indoors in a bucket.

Otherwise you can plan your next years approach. Here are my suggestions on strategies, and on some good sources for your food providing plants.

Fall gardening

 Its fall time and there's plenty of things to do to get ready for next years garden.  Never gardened before?  Follow me and do what I do.  I will post the activities I do as close to the time I do them so you can garden with me.  My gardening system is based off of ruth stout's ideas.  It requires very little weeding and no watering. 

How to make lip balm



Making your own lip balm is pretty easy.  Just heat up some oil and melt some beeswax in it and you've got it.  Serously, that's all there is.  However you can spice things up by puttin in some quality ingredients.  Here's how I make my lip balms for Fitzpatrick Farm.  I'm also providing a resource list of where to get all this stuff at the bottom.  A list of my flavors and how to order my lip balm is down there too.