@The Handmade Homestead & Garden
— · 11 videos curated
Food self-sufficiency, gardening, food preservation, and sustainable homesteading for household resilience.
All 11 videos
Late-Season Garden Tour + Five-Vegetable Challenge to Plant Now
Thirteen-minute walk-through of five fast-growing cool-season crops (mustard greens, spinach, lettuce, arugula, radishes) you can plant immediately for harvest before first frost.
Late-Summer Garden Transition: Five Steps to Extend Your Growing Season
Five practical late-summer tasks to maximize remaining harvest and prepare your garden for fall production.
Nutsedge: The Weed I Actually Like (And How I Control It)
Thirteen minutes on nutsedge ecology, why this persistent weed may have practical uses, and integrated management strategies for garden resilience.
I Grow More Food Than We Can Eat — And I Do It on Purpose
How to intentionally grow food surplus in a backyard or container garden and share the abundance with family and community.
How to Lacto Ferment Peppers or Any Vegetables: The Easiest Two-Ingredient Method
19-minute walkthrough on preserving garden vegetables through salt-water fermentation, using fresh peppers as an example; covers harvesting, prep, salt ratios, jar setup, and readiness indicators.
15 Grocery Items You Can Grow for Free! These Vegetables Save Us the Most Money
Walkthrough of 15 beginner-friendly vegetables to grow at home—from garlic to peppers—with preservation methods to extend the harvest and reduce grocery spending year-round.
8 Vegetables to Plant Now for Big Harvests in Small Spaces
Sixteen-minute walkthrough of eight high-yield vegetables for container and raised-bed gardening, with harvest projections and beginner mistakes to avoid.
The Best Vegetables to Grow Now in July for a Big Fall Harvest
Ten-minute walkthrough of cool-season vegetables to plant in July for fall harvest, covering fast crops, leafy greens, root vegetables, and brassicas suited to late-season growing.
This Growing Season Has Been Brutal... Here's What Survived
27-minute walkthrough of a coastal garden's performance through extreme weather—cold snaps, heat waves, drought, heavy rain—with harvest updates, crop failures, and practical lessons for the rest of the season.
Complete Seed Saving Guide for Every Gardener
Twelve-minute walkthrough of seed saving techniques: choosing open-pollinated varieties, harvesting at peak maturity, dry and wet processing, storage for viability, and building an emergency seed bank.
Easy Preserved Lemons, Limes & Oranges: 2-Ingredient Fermented Citrus
22-minute walkthrough of salt-fermented citrus preservation: selecting fruit, packing jars, fermentation timeline, storage, and four recipes using preserved citrus.