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Homestead Fashion: Grow a shirt or a towel in your garden One of the easiest fibers to grow on your homestead, for clothing and household textiles is linen. It doesn’t require extra fertilizer. It can grow in most climates with at least a one month growing season, and isn’t damaged by light frosts during the [...]
Its almost time to harvest nettle stems for spinning. Depending on where you live, late August to early September is the best time. You want to catch them when the leaves die back but before the new growth begins. Here, the leaves are just starting to turn black and fall off, so we’ll be harvesting [...]
The linen festival last Saturday was fantastic. I think it was the most enjoyable Linen Festival we’ve had a Joybilee Farm…Thank you to our farm helpers, Kara and Erika, you were both a big help to make the day go smoothly…to Evelyn for coming out for the day to help with the flax breaking, scutching [...]
Cotton is the world’s dirtiest crop. More than 7 deadly pesticides are used on it. It requires 1/3rd of a pound of chemical fertilizer to grow enough cotton for 1 T-shirt. Pesticide residues remain in the cotton. 65% of the cotton crop ends up in our food — directly or as animal feed. Further more, [...]
Virgin Coconut Oil, Gold Label - 1 quart
