The Art of Self-Sufficiency

Self-sufficiency isn’t just about growing your own food or going off-grid; it’s a mindset more than a static process. By cultivating skills like gardening, preserving food, and repairing instead of replacing, you build personal resilience and reduce dependency on external systems. This widens your buffer between your freedoms and outside regulations. It doesn’t happen instantaneously Read More…

Sustainability: Beyond the Buzzword

Sustainability is more than eco-friendly products; it’s a holistic way of life. It’s about reducing consumption, reusing resources, and designing systems that give back to the Earth to support a cyclical return of energy. Sustainability embraces practices like agricultural derivatives such as permaculture. Permaculture is a practice that focuses on working with nature rather than against iRead More…

From Non-Native to Noxious

Often when we discuss problematic species we hear the word invasive thrown around. However, that is an oversimplification and it’s not representative of the whole picture. Here is a list of terms and how to differentiate them and understand when and why plants move from one designation to the next. NATIVE: A plant indigenous to a region. This doesn’t necessarily mean that it’s endemicRead More…

The Farm Ethic

Plant species don’t exist in isolation in the wild. their success is due to a complex interwoven matrix of natural support from other plants, animals, fungi and minerals. However in the commercial agricultural industry, we’ve predominantly grown our crops in traditionally fragmented systems. Only recently has the importance of planting adjacent spaces for pollinators, for green manure regeneratioRead More…