Ep. 69 - Holistic Homesteading with Roxanne Ahern

Foraging and Perennial Gardening on your Homestead.

This week I visit with Roxanne Ahern (Happyholistichs on Twitter) about her book:

Holistic Homesteading - A guide to a Sustainable and Regenerative Lifestyle (physical book), and Kindle.

We talk extensively about foraging and perennial gardening on your homestead.

I like this book because it has a nice balance of permaculture, gardening, foraging, wildcrafting, and cooking. The pictures are fantastic and pop off the page.

It's the "weeks of want", the end of February and early March. Before supermarkets, this time would have seen a gap between the end of the stored food and the new greens or crops of Spring.

We share our favorite perennials to forage:

• Henbit/dead nettle

• Chicory

• Purslane

• Plantain

• Dandelions

• Nettles

We also share what we are planting in the gardening in the coming year:

• Asparagus

• Jerusalem artichokes

• Squash

• Mortgage lifter tomatoes

Check out the show notes. Episode website: https://thrivingthefuture.com/holistic-homesteading

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