Monday Medley: Growing your own food

Want to learn how to grow heirloom tomatoes? Here’s a quick guide from Better Homes and Gardens.

Planning Thanksgiving already? Freebie Finding Mom has 25 great ideas for Thanksgiving activities that are not related to football.

Got joint pain? It’s certainly the weather for it. I get pain in my knees often from an old softball injury, and Indy gets pain in his elbow, which is held together with a huge bolt from another sporting injury. Here are 14 home remedies for arthritis and joint pain that look like they are worth exploring!

Here’s a fun coloring sheet for Day of the Dead. Wood Sprite is very into the holiday this year; although we’ve always celebrated it, this is the first year that she really loves it. It’s also a Spanish paint by number, which makes it even cooler.

Want to make your own laundry soap? Here is the simplest recipe ever, from My Life of Travels and Adventures.

The Homesteading Boards have 26 steps to self-sufficiency that look really helpful. I am really digging the homesteading path! I’m not into it because I think the world is going to end—although anything can happen!—but because I think it’s important to know how to do these things and to know where our food comes from. If nothing else, to grow a garden and make your own food for a little while is a learning experience.

NaNoWriMo is coming up next month; are you ready? Who is participating?

Want to make some slime for Halloween? Steve Spangler has you covered.

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