How to Batter and Fry Squash Blossoms – Homestead Recipe Basics
Summer squash plants not only provide an abundance of yellow squash and zucchini, but can also be the inspiration for a delicacy. Many people aren't aware that the flowers are edible....
How to Bake Pumpkin Seeds – Homestead Recipe Basics
Once you harvest your pumpkin patch in the fall, you may want to think about baking the pumpkin seeds you scoop from your bounty instead of letting them go to waste....
Growing Japanese Vegetables in Your Garden – Edible Landscaping
Japanese vegetables are fun to grow if you are looking for variety or wish to cook more Japanese dishes at mealtime. A few plants grow well in most climates, have high yields and are staples in Japanese cooking....
How to Grow Swiss Chard – Edible Landscaping
Add a little extra color and nutrition to your garden by growing swiss chard this season. Swiss chard is considered a leafy green vegetable; however, the stalks may be white, yellow or red....
How to Grow Kale – Edible Landscaping
Kale is a hardy growing green from the cabbage family. The plant originated form Asia Minor and the Eastern Mediterranean. Kale can tolerate both mid-summer heat and cold temperatures....
How to Grow Watermelons – Edible Landscaping
Watermelons grown in a home garden promise to be a sweet, thirst-quenching treat at harvest time. Typically, watermelons are grown indoors and then transplanted into an outdoor garden area after the last frost date has passed....
First Shiitake Mushroom Harvest
This spring we inoculated hardwood logs with shiitake mushroom spawn plugs. We received our first harvest this week and threw them in the smoker with our sirloin steak. De-e-elicious....
Food Forest Garden Journal Trailer
Plan your edible landscaping or garden with our Food Forest Garden Journal now available on Amazon. Funds from the book will help us expand our small edible landscaping space into a permaculture food forest farm....
2021 Little Tree Food Forest Tour
Take a tour of Little Tree Food Forest and see how it has grown. Little Tree Food Forest is an experiment in edible landscaping in a small space. Support Little Tree Food Forest's publications on Amazon or our Etsy shop to help us expand our space into a full...
2020 Little Tree Food Forest Tour
When the pandemic in 2020 hit, we started growing food. Little Tree Food Forest is an experiment in edible landscaping in a small space. Support Little Tree Food Forest's publications on Amazon or our Etsy shop to help us expand our space into a full fledge permaculture food...