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Home Organization: Easy Steps to a Clutter Free Home
When you first move into your home it seems like you have so much space. As the years pass, you might find yourself becoming a pack rat. What are you going to do with all the stuff you have accumulated? Perhaps it’s time to weed out the unnecessary items and organize your home. Home organization is a step-by-step process. It will take more than a day or even a week to get everything to a manageable level, but once you do staying organized is an easier task. If you have a family, enlist their help. They can pitch in and learn a thing or two about controlling clutter in their…
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Put On Your Boots and Get Things Done!
A great motivation for gardening season or any time! As a thank you to my readers here at HomeFreeMedia, I am giving away these free motivational wallpapers for your desktop. Opportunity is all about being ready. Sometimes just taking the first small step toward your goals is enough to spur you forward. It can be as simple as lacing up your boots. Thomas A. Edison has been quoted as saying, “Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” Do you have your work clothes on? Are you ready for success to come your way? Take some time to re-assess your goals and…
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Ten Great Vegetables for Your Home Vegetable Garden
Thinking about what to plant in your home vegetable garden? In my little corner of Canada we are getting close to planting season for most home garden vegetables. Here are a few suggestions to get your mouth watering for the garden fresh harvest that just might be in your future! Tomatoes – Although, yes, the tomato is technically a fruit, its delicious, savory taste leads to this little beauty being considered a vegetable by most people. Tomatoes found in stores are usually picked nearly green and then ripened artificially. This is done to ensure they are tough enough to survive shipping without being smashed, and so they last longer on…
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Building Your Website – Domains and Hosting
When it comes to starting your work at home business, creating your very own website and choosing domains and hosting can be quite intimidating – especially if you aren’t familiar with the technical side of things. While there are many terrific options out there for new or inexperienced business owners, getting started can pose a challenge for the newbie. Here are the steps you need to take to make your home in cyberspace comfortable and cozy. Start by purchasing your very own domain name, yourbusinessname.com. With so many websites offering “free” domain names, this may sound like a needless expense at first. But many of these sites are really only…
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Using Edible Perennials for Landscaping
Planting edible perennials as part of your landscape is a great idea, because it enables you to make maximum use of your space. Instead of damaging your landscaping by tearing up your lawn to plant a traditional garden, you can simply work your food plants into the existing plan for your yard. There is a wide variety of perennial vegetables and herbs that can be used as part of your landscape, and edibles can be just as beautiful as traditional landscape plants. Perennial vegetables are a real time saver, because you don’t have to replant them each year. A lot of vegetables are quite attractive, and can be lovely in…
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Online Work at Home Careers
If you have been dreaming of working from home, there are many viable online work at home careers available. You really do have the opportunity to change the course of your life right now. You can use the skills you already have to provide services for those that need them. And, believe it or not, you can do all of that online – setting up your business, marketing to get the word out and handling payments – right from the comfort and security of your home office. Work at Home Possibilities What kind of service should you provide? That depends on what your skills are. Do you have experience with…
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Building a Raised Bed Garden
Raised bed gardening is a way of growing plants inside beds that are raised up above the normal level of the soil in the garden. They’re typically housed inside a wooden frame, generally rectangular. The soil may be mixed in with tilled soil underneath, or it can simply be new soil placed on top of untilled ground. There are many great benefits to growing plants in raised beds. One of the biggest benefits is the ability to harvest more produce from the same space. Raised bed gardens can actually double or even triple the amount of produce harvested from the space! This is due to the fact that the square…
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Winter Hump Day February 4
I did the math. According to my calculations, winter is now half gone! Winter Hump Day was officially February 4. We are now halfway through winter and halfway to spring. Don’t misunderstand, I do love the winter here in Canada! But this year’s winter has been unusually nasty. Frozen water pipes, broken water mains, and traffic accidents due to slippery driving conditions have been common in the extreme cold we have been experiencing. So I am especially looking forward to spring these days. It will be so wonderful to smell the earth as I am preparing and planting my garden! Bring on the spring flowers, daffodils, crocuses, and tulips! Winter…
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Cultivate Curiosity – Follow That Firetruck!
My husband tells me that he got into trouble a lot when he was a young boy. He supposes that nowadays he would likely be diagnosed and put on some kind of drugs. But back in those bad old days, they used to give children the strap. If kids didn’t get with the program and behave themselves, they would be smacked across their palms with a big ol’ piece of leather. I am not going to debate corporal punishment here, but I want to tell a story from his past that illustrates one of the great merits of homeschooling. Once there was a little boy who had trouble sitting still…
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Free Demo Planting Calculator at Sarah’s Kitchen Gardens
For those of you who are starting to plan your gardens, Sarah Hemingway of Sarah’s Kitchen Gardens is offering a free demo of her Planting Calculator on her website. This is an amazing little app that does all the thinking for you, whether you are starting seeds indoors, in a cold frame, or directly in the garden. It even tells you when to transplant your seedlings, if necessary. The planner also lists estimated harvest times and recommendations for succession planting, with the full version providing information for over 70 garden herbs and vegetables! All you need to do is look up the last and first frost dates in your area…
