Orchards

Chestnuts Return to America – Food for Humans & Animals

Melissa Francis - January 7, 20140

NW Food News website shares the bountiful harvest of the chestnut tree. In the 1930's - 1940's America lost up to 4 billion native chestnut...

Gardening

Strategies For Grafting Fruit Trees – Grow Multiple Type of Fruit on One Tree

Melissa Francis - January 1, 20140

Small Kitchen Garden website shares different strategies for grafting fruit trees so that you can grow more than one type of varieties of fruit...

Gardening

How And Why To Plant Fruit Trees In The Fall

Paige Raymond - October 6, 20130

Old World Garden Farms tells us how to plant fruit trees now and explains why they should be planted in fall. If you have...

Orchards

How Why To Plant Fruit Trees in the Fall

Melissa Francis - August 3, 20130

This in depth article about how and why to plant fruit trees in the fall on your homestead is truly inspiring. You still have...

Gardening

How to Grow Espalier Apple Trees

Paige Raymond - July 9, 20130

How to grow Espalier apple trees. I love this way of growing fruit trees. It looks so neat growing along a support instead of...

Gardening

How To Grow Lemon Seeds

Melissa Francis - June 11, 20130

Nice project on how to grow lemon seeds. Please use organic lemon seeds since some non-organic lemon seeds may be incapable of germinating. Soak the...

Gardening

Propagation of Fruit Bearing Trees by Air-Layering

Paige Raymond - May 21, 20130

Awesome how to on cloning your tree, fruit and other trees can be cloned this way rather than growing from seed. Antoni Raj over...

Gardening

Have You Planted Fruit Trees On Your Homestead Yet ? Here Is How

Melissa Francis - April 21, 20130

Grow Veg website shares how to give your soon to be planted new bare rooted fruit trees the best head start to becoming a...

Beekeeping

How To Attract Honey Bees To Your Garden

Paige Raymond - February 27, 20130

I think by now everyone knows that most of our plants that provide us with food need bees to pollinate them. Some, like...

Gardening

How To Grow A Lemon Tree From Seed

Melissa Francis - February 11, 20130

Growing Wild Ceeds takes us through all the steps of growing a lemon tree from a seed with helpful tips and pictures. http://growingwildceeds.wordpress.com/2012/03/10/how-to-grow-a-lemon-tree-from-seed/ . . The Holistic Orchard:...

Gardening