Welcome to Our Permaculture Homestead

After 13 years of researching “doomsday preppers” and homesteading for my apocalyptic novel, We Can Save Us All, I realized I had none of the survival skills I’d been writing about. I wanted to change that. Without becoming a total weirdo.

We began preparing our home to survive a grid-down situation, and dove into homesteading projects to inform our new lifestyle.

Here’s what happened next…

Permaculture Homesteading How-Tos and Articles

Cannabis Flowering Stage (#4): Get Higher Yields & Make the Most From Your Budding Pot Plants

Sometime around Week 5, your ladies will begin to flower. In case it’s not clear, the cannabis plant’s flowers or “buds” are what most people harvest and consume, so this stage is all about maximizing the yield, size and quality of these flowers to ensure the best possible harvest.

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Cannabis Veg State Guide (#3): Tips and Steps For the 6-Week Vegetative State

By week 3, your cannabis plants should have entered the vegetative stage. This means you’re starting to see more of those laughably stereotypical fan leaves, and the plant is doing its job, and your job is to try to create the best conditions for it to keep growing and producing those leaves. Here’s what that means and what you need

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