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The Best Way to Keep Your Vegetable Garden Watered | Roots & Boots

The Best Way to Keep Your Vegetable Garden Watered

Most gardeners know that a soaker hose is the best way to keep your vegetable garden watered.  But have you tried this soaker hose? 

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The Best Way to Save Squash Seeds | Roots & Boots

The Best Way to Save Squash Seeds

 Wondering how to save squash seeds from your homegrown harvest?  The process is super simple! 

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How to Start Seeds with the Soil Blocking Method | Roots & Boots

How to Start Seeds with the Soil Blocking Method

Start seeds with the soil blocking method and grow more seedlings in less space!  Bonus: you’ll use less plastic and fewer supplies.

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A Gentle Approach to Kindergarten | Roots & Boots

A Gentle Approach to Kindergarten

If you’ve felt the tug towards a more gentle approach to kindergarten for your child, you’re not alone.

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How to Choose a Homeschooling Method | Roots & Boots

How to Choose a Homeschooling Method

Maybe you’ve decided to homeschool your child, but you’re wondering how to choose a homeschooling method. 

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2020 Homestead Living Gift Guide | Roots & Boots

2020 Homestead Living Gift Guide

This holiday season some friends and I have gotten together to help you save on some incredible gifts for the homesteading enthusiast in your life! All digital, sustainable and even some that are FREE! ♥️ 2020 Homestead Living Gift Guide Available from December 11-15, 2020. In addition to $50+ off my Real Food Family Meal…

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Homemade Advent Wreath with Foraged Greens | Roots & Boots

Homemade Advent Wreath with Foraged Greens

This year I was determined to create a homemade Advent wreath with foraged greens.

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4 Meaningful Ways to Celebrate Advent with Kids | Roots & Boots

4 Meaningful Ways to Celebrate Advent with Kids

I don’t know about you, but at my house it feels so easy to get sucked into the busyness and commercialism of the Christmas season. 

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Thoroughly Equipped to Educate

Have you ever done something because it seemed like the right thing, the logical thing, to do, only to realize that it wasn’t right for you at all?  Have you ever done what was expected and then discovered the freedom to break away from the norm?

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How to Prune Basil for the Best Flavor

How to Prune Basil for the Best Flavor

Basil may possibly be the best loved garden herb.  Even people who don’t have a full fledged garden love to grow a pot of basil on the patio, or a balcony, or even in the kitchen. Did you know that strategically cutting back your basil plants yields a bushier plant with better flavor? Let’s take…

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