Journey to Sustainability

City life makes gardening seem out of the question. If you live in an apartment and don’t have access to a yard you might think you can’t grow a garden this summer. However, there are actually many ways to grow a garden in your house or on a back patio.  Here are a bunch of ideas that I have wanted to try that might work for you.  In fact, I challenge you to take one or two of these ideas and try them yourself.  Help others learn from your experience by sharing in the comments below which … [Read more...]

I have recently become the proud owner of 36 Rock Cornish Game Hens.  You may be thinking, why bother raising my own chickens for meat? $1.99/lb. at the grocery store is easier, right? The reason we are growing our own meat chickens is I want to know what’s going into my chickens so I know what is going in to my family. After all, we are what we eat. We want to live sustainably. We don’t want to be dependent on getting meat at the store. Best Breed Rock Cornish Game Hens are … [Read more...]

Who doesn’t like a cute little fluffy bunny? Show a bunny to almost anyone and you will see a smile spread across their face. As far as I can tell, most people raise rabbits for pets. I, however, also raise them for meat. Whether you have rabbits for pets or meat, I will tell you how to feed them for FREE! Advantages of meat rabbits As part of living a more sustainable lifestyle, I have started to raise meat rabbits.  Rabbit meat is one of the leanest meats. It has more protein per … [Read more...]

I grew up on a farm. Every year my family would grow a garden.  Boy, I dreaded gardening.  My dad would get the tractor and plow up the garden spot. We would plow in a bunch of horse manure and leaves from the previous year. Then, we would spend one day and plant everything we wanted.  Everything was fine at first. Then about June would hit and we would have to spend hours in the garden weeding and weeding.  The ground was so hard that we would water the whole garden the day before so the … [Read more...]

As I’ve been contemplating how to grow my garden the most efficient way, I came across a book called “Square Food Gardening Method” (SFG). The method revolves around garden boxes. Like you, I want an awesome garden with little maintenance and SFG with garden boxes seemed like the perfect solution. The problem is the cost in buying the lumber and the time in making the boxes. When discussing it with my wife and researching the cost of lumber right now, it almost didn’t seem worth it. In … [Read more...]

When you eat an apple, what do you do with your core? When your baby only eats half of their food, what do you do with the leftovers? When the spinach in the back of your fridge is found and slimy, what do you do with it? If you grew up like me, then you are thinking of animals and compost. Growing up, it was a sin to throw away food. Why throw it away, if it can feed your animals and give you a beautiful garden? Here is the simplest way to do it: Collecting your trash Even in an … [Read more...]