We recently wrote a guide on how to hatch duck eggs, but not all breeds of duck are the same! Incubating Muscovy duck eggs is a little bit different, and the differences involved I think are worth writing a separate piece on. If you’re getting ready to hatch your own Muscovy duck eggs, you should...
I’ve never been much of a lawn guy – I’d prefer it if my property was a biodiverse food forest. But a little bit of grass is a nice thing, and I maintain a small patch of it to enjoy sitting on during the warm, summer months. And just like a garden, a patch of...
There are few things more frustrating to a gardener, beginner or experienced, than finding out your garden is being consumed by some unwanted pest. Nature has a way of throwing a wrench into our plans, but take a bit of comfort in knowing that, if your garden is being eaten by something, it’s a healthy...
Plants are into weird stuff. They like being sprayed with the hose and having poop thrown around them. It really gets them growing happy and healthy, even if it doesn’t sound like a good time for you and me. One fertilizer that I’ve used countless times and keep coming back to is fish emulsion. It...
Visit the gardening section of any major retailer that sells gardening products and you’re likely to be bombarded with tons of different products. Some are organic, some aren’t, and it can be difficult to make heads or tails of it. One of the products you may see in the gardening section of your local market...
Black oak trees are a type of tree native to east and central North America and is extraordinarily common in its native range. It can be found from Maine to Texas and inland toward Michigan and the Great Plains states as well. It is a close relative of the California black oak (Quercus kelloggii). These...
White oak trees are stunning, large, sturdy oak trees with a native range in British Columbia, Washington, and Oregon. They have a stocky trunk with a wide berth of horizontal limbs. Summer leaves are dark green and fall leaves are red, but slowly turn brown. White oak trees are good acorn producers, but only have...
If you love tall oak trees that have a rich red, almost burgundy autumn leaf color, then the northern red oak tree is the tree for you. These trees are just the perfect addition to any property that needs a splash of red oak leaf color every fall. In this article, we’re going to go...
When I plant a deciduous tree, there’s one thing I always have to know: what do its autumn leaves look like? The truth is, fall is my favorite time of year. I absolutely love the explosion of color, the fall crops that I harvest, and watching the leaves fall gently from the trees. One of...
It’s probably a little bit uncommon for a man in his thirties, but I love the holidays in both Fall and Winter. The Winter holidays in particular are my favorite. I love the coziness of hunkering down during cold weather, drinking hot drinks, making delicious food for the people I love, and of course, all...
Years ago on a walk, I stumbled upon a strange fruiting tree that I’d never seen before. It had large, orange-colored fruit with an odd leaf-like covering at the very top of it. I knew it wasn’t an orange tree. It looked kind of like an apricot, but the fruits were too big. It definitely...
Quail are becoming an increasingly popular type of poultry to keep for people who live in rural and urban places, particularly the latter. Someone living in the big city who wants fresh eggs, meat, and an overall easy to care for and discrete bird find that quail are the best of all worlds. They are...
