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👋🏼 Happy Small Business Saturday! 💝 It was exactly 7 years ago, Thanksgiving week of 2018, that I sat down and started building the Homestead and Chill website (with absolutely *zero* idea what I was doing or what it would eventually become!) so I get especially reflective and sappy this time of year. I typically share a round-up of our garden spaces over the years, but I thought it would be fun to do something a little different and put together this carousel to share more of our story, mission, fun facts, offerings, and some garden before-and-afters of course. 😍 ⏰ When I think back over those 7 years (or even my 12 years on Instagram) SO much has changed and evolved. Our home, gardens, animals, business, social media, ourselves even… but one thing has remained constant - and that’s your unwavering support! I don’t know how to NOT sound like a cheeseball when I say our lives and journey wouldn’t be the same with you, but it’s the truth. Whether it’s visiting our website, supporting our shop, being a part of our newsletter community, or simply showing up here in camaraderie to tune in, laugh, commiserate, connect, and share ideas (or just send me cat and donkey memes 💁🏼‍♀️🤣) - it ALL matters, and we are so grateful! So thank you for being here. YOU are what makes our world go ‘round! 🥹🫶🏼🌎 We can’t wait to see what next year has in store 🕯️🐝😉 With love & gratitude ~ Deanna, Aaron, and the whole H&C Team 👩🏼‍🌾👨🏻‍🌾🐈🫏🐓 #smallbusiness #shopsmall #smallbusinesssaturday

Hey, I’m Deanna 👋🏼 Here’s a little reintroduction and “about me”… but of course we’re all so much more complex and interesting than can fit into a handful of tiny words on the screen! . Like: we live on the Central Coast of California, are huge reggae lovers (among many other types of music), and enjoy long walks on the beach or a good Netflix binge to unwind. 🌊 . Aaron and I met in college (coming up on 19 years ago 🤯) working together in a small natural foods store. After college I worked for the county - starting as a restaurant inspector (oh the stories I have 🫣) and worked my way up to a senior water and land use specialist where I reviewed/inspected/permitted water systems, wastewater systems, and commercial canna🌿 operations. Aaron worked as a produce team leader at Whole Foods. Both feeling increasingly unfulfilled at work, we started our own business 5 years ago and became fully self-employed 2.5 years ago, which has been both the most rewarding and most difficult thing I’ve ever done. . I’m a Type 1/3 enneagram and a Cancer. 🦀 I struggle with anxiety, especially social anxiety, and am generally waaay too hard on myself. . All in all, I’m a work in progress ~ busy growing both in the soil and in the soul. Thanks for being here and growing along with me 💚 . . . . . . . . . #homesteadandchill #gardenlife #gardenlove #homesteading #homesteadlife #instagarden #instagardeners #gardenblogger #sustainableliving #selfsufficiency #type1diabetes #type1warrior #diabadass #countrylife #countryliving #growfood #growfoodnotlawns #healthyliving #environmentalist #selflove #childfree #growyourown #naturalhealth

🌿 13 Tips on Starting a Garden 🔥 . 1) Start Small. It’s fun to dream of a big garden overflowing with food, but the reality is, it can take some time and experience to get there. Taking on too much before you learn the basics or get a feel for your yard/climate/pests can get overwhelming fast. . 2) Pick the sunniest location possible. Consider how the sun/shade will change with the seasons. If you live in the northern hemisphere, a south-facing location is ideal (one that gets maximum sun exposure from the south, including when it’s lower on the horizon in late fall to early spring). . 3) Decide if you want raised beds, containers or in-ground gardening - or try a variety of methods! We prefer raised beds since gophers make in-ground growing nearly impossible here. I also love the ergonomis, aesthetics, ability to block out pests, and fill them with quality soil and compost. . 4) Invest in your soil. Soil health is KEY! Focus on feeding the soil rather than feeding plants. Compost, mulch, and mild slow-release organic fertilizers are your friends. . 5) Plant what you like to eat. Start with a handful of common veggies and go from there. My very first garden had cherry tomatoes, squash, basil, and honeydew. . 6) Not ready to start from seed? Go pick up some seedlings from a local nursery. There is no shame in that game! . 7) Give plants deep, even, consistent water. They like routine. . 8) Don’t forget the pollinators! Grow a few pollen and nectar-rich flowers for our pollinator friends too. . 9) Think about wildlife. If squirrels, deer, rabbits, or other critters may nibble your plants, consider fencing, nets, hoops and row covers, or other ways to protect them. . 10) Keep it organic; don’t worry about a few bugs! If nothing is eating your garden, your garden isn’t part of the ecosystem. . 11) Perfection is not the goal. HAVE FUN! . 12) There’s always next year! . 13) Come visit us on Homesteadandchill.com for TONS of tips, grow guides, recipes and more! Subscribe to our free weekly newsletter, and you'll get a FREE 21-page garden planning toolkit w/ a companion planting chart, plot plans, and seed starting/planting calendars for EVERY zone! 🙌🥳 Link in bio

✂️ Here’s your annual reminder to pinch your basil plants! The more you prune and harvest basil, the more branches and bushy it will grow - meaning the more fresh basil you can harvest and enjoy all summer long! Don’t simply pluck individual leaves off. That won’t promote new growth and will just make it get woody faster. Always cut a stem just above a leaf node, where two new long branches will then form. To propagate new plants in water, use cut stems that are at least 5-7” long. Strip the leaves from the lower 1/2 of the stems, place them in a glass of water in a spot with bright ambient light but not in direct sun (kitchen counter is great), and change the water every few days. They should grow new roots within a couple weeks! Later during the season (once the plants get much larger), I like to harvest/cut some stems deep within the plant and some more towards the middle or top to encourage branching all over 👍🏼 You can cut just a few stems as needed for a meal, or cut the whole plant way back (but leave at least 1/3 of it behind) to harvest a lot of basil at once. We like to do that to when we make pesto or basil cubes to freeze, or to dry the leaves to preserve. I hope this is helpful! Let me know if you have any questions, and happy basil growing 🌱 #gardening #gardentips #homesteading #gardenlife #growyourown

🍅 I love our trusty DIY tomato trellises! Comment TRELLIS and I’ll send you our easy step-by-step guide and video on how to make your own. The tutorial also walks you through how to prune and train tomatoes up a trellis like this. 👍🏼 We’ve been using this system for over 5 years now (it’s like a combination of the Florida weave + single stake method), and I can’t imagine growing any other way now! It’s pretty, tidy, easy to see and harvest fruit, increases airflow = less disease pressure, and leaves plenty of space for tomato companion plants like basil, marigolds, bush beans, and others in the bed 🌼 It’s been so fun to see some of you using this system in your own gardens now too 💚 Wishing you a terrific tomato season! #gardentips #homesteading #growyourown #gardenlife #instagarden

🌼 Are you growing calendula this year? If not, please do! It’s no secret that calendula is my favorite herb and companion plant. I mean, what’s not to love? It’s beautiful, easy to grow (including in containers), medicinal, edible, attracts pollinators and other beneficial insects - and is the key ingredient in all our most soothing skincare offerings including salves, face oil and lotion. It works some serious magic on irritated or unhappy skin! ✨ . 🤓 Reply “guide” and I’ll send you my free calendula guide that’s full of tips on how to grow, harvest, dry and use it, including step-by-step DIY skincare recipes, and a list of our favorite varieties to grow. I love adding cheerful calendula petals to summer salads, iced tea, mocktails, spring rolls and more. Even better: the more flowers you pick, the more will grow! . 🧡 Or comment “skincare” if you’re interested in browsing our organic skincare line - made with SO much love and care, right from our garden. Our goodies have helped thousands of people with eczema, stubborn rashes, inflammation, scars, psoriasis, dermatitis, burns (including sunburn and radiation burn) and more. And it’s 100000% the most rewarding part of my work: helping people feel more comfortable and confident in their skin 🥹❤️

Want to grow a more beautiful, productive, sustainable garden?! 🌻 Comment “chart” and I’ll send you my free companion planting 101 guide along with a handy printable chart! 💚 Do you practice companion planting yet? It’s the idea that growing two (or more) crops near one another may help each other in nutrient uptake, improved pest management and reduced pesticide use, enhanced pollination and higher yields - naturally! 🧐 Will companion planting solve ALL your pest issues? Nope, I’m afraid not. But will it bring tons of pollinators, biodiversity and beauty to your garden? Heck yes 💯🙌🏽 And will your plants unalive themselves if you accidentally plant the “wrong” things together? No. They may not be quite as happy, but don’t fret about the “foes” too much, especially if you have limited garden space. The Native American “three sisters” combo of corn, squash and beans is a prime example of companion planting. Similarly, we always plant basil and marigolds at the base of our tomatoes. The marigold roots repel root-knot nematodes (a common tomato pest) while the tomatoes provide dappled partial shade that the basil likes to thrive. Basil can also repel pests like hornworms, aphids, and whitefly - and supposedly growing basil nearby makes the tomatoes taste better too! 💁🏼‍♀️ I also love to tuck tons of annual flowers and herbs among all the veggie beds including cosmos, zinnia, cornflower, calendula, and more 🌸 💖 Save this post and keep these planting combos in mind when you’re planning your spring garden layout! 👍🏼 . . . . . #growfood #gardening #gardentips #homesteading #companionplanting

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✅ How to pick the best seedlings, and what to avoid! ❌ I get so irritated when I see nurseries selling bolted, stunted, rootbound, diseased, or otherwise ridiculous seedlings. It’s just setting folks up for frustration and failure. New gardeners may plant them, feel like they did something wrong, avoid that crop next time, or even worse, want to give up gardening altogether! 😭 Hopefully these tips will help: 🌱 Bigger isn’t always better. Choose the most short, stocky, tender, young, bright green and healthy-looking seedlings instead. Large, overly-mature seedlings are more likely to be stressed, root bound or permanently stunted… even after they’re planted in your garden! 🍅 Avoid woody, tough, bolting seedlings - or those forming heads, fruit, or flowers when they’re still small. The plants should be focusing their energy on growing larger first, and fruiting/flowering later! 🥕 Root veggies like beets, carrots, and radishes don’t like to be transplanted, so they’re best to plant from seed (and so much cheaper!). Peas and beans also grow best when directly sown outside. Focus on buying things like tomatoes, peppers, leafy greens, herbs, eggplant, broccoli, onions or flowers instead. 👯‍♀️ Crowded seedlings? If several seedlings are growing together, you MAY be able to gently separate them to get more free plants - but only if they’re still quite small and have just a few clumped together. The larger and more crowded they are, the more likely it is to cause root damage or stunting when you try to separate them. However, clusters of onions and leeks are perfect to gently tease apart. 😷 Avoid seedlings with obvious signs of stress, disease, or pests. If you found this useful, please share to help others too! Happy spring plant shopping 💚 #growfood #homesteading #gardentips #gardening #growyourownfood

🥕 Carrot Growing Tips! 👇🏼 Once you know these “secrets”, you’ll see carrots are easy to grow - and one of THE most fun and rewarding crops to harvest! 🌞 Carrots are cool-season crops, perfect for the spring or fall garden. In places with temperate winters or summers, you can grow them year-round! ✅ Direct sow carrot seeds outside (rather than starting indoors and transplanting, or buying seedlings.) 🌱 Plant carrot seeds either “surface sown” (scattered or pressed into the soil surface) or lightly covered with a sprinkle of potting soil or seedling mix, no more than ¼” deep. They need consistent moisture to sprout, so you may need to give them light water everyday or every other day during germination - which can take a couple weeks. 🪏Carrots love loose fluffy soil. Hard soil or obstacles can lead to stunted or deformed growth. If your soil is rocky, clay, or otherwise compact, loosen it to at least a foot deep and amend with potting soil, aged compost and/or horticultural sand. 🙅🏼‍♀️ Avoid high nitrogen fertilizers. Carrots grow large leafy tops but smaller or deformed roots (carrots) with too much nitrogen. 💧 Carrots love water! Ever had “hairy” carrots?When carrots don’t get enough water, they send out tiny feeder roots in search of more. 🥕 Thinning or spacing carrots to one sprout every 1-2 inches will give them the room they need to grow long, straight and large. Overcrowded carrots will stay much smaller or wrap around one another. ⏰️ Carrots take 3-4 months to mature. We usually start harvesting mini carrots early/as-needed rather than waiting for allll of them to be ready at once - though a huge carrot harvest is always fun! 🍜 Our favorite ways to preserve excess carrots include making lacto-fermented carrot “pickles” or freezing roasted carrot + sweet potato soup, though they last in cold storage (e.g. refrigerator or root cellar) for many months. 🌿 Carrot greens are edible too! They’re fantastic in pesto, chimichurri, added to green juice or homemade veggie broth. Our chickens enjoy eating them too. Save or share if this was useful, and happy growing! ✌🏼 #growfood #gardentips #homesteading #gardening #growyourownfood

🐝 Here are the 6 best companion flowers that are easy to grow from seed (or nursery seedlings) in any zone! You’ll always find these flowers in our garden, planted amongst the veggies to attract pollinators and other beneficial insects. Plus they add so much joy, color, and each one offers unique benefits too: . 🌸 1) Cosmos are so whimsical and beautiful! They’re one of the best flowers to dry for pressed flower crafts, and an absolute favorite for bees and bumblebees. Wild birds love to eat their seeds too. My top varieties: cupcake, double click, seashell, rose bonbon. . 🌼 2) Calendula: my all-time favorite herb. The edible flowers are highly medicinal (especially for skincare) and ideal for making homemade oil infusions, salves and balms. We love Resina, Strawberry Blonde, Erfurter, Orange Button and Flashback. . 🦋 3) Zinnia make wonderful cut flowers, and are highly attractive to monarch butterflies and hummingbirds. Current faves: Zinderella, Benary’s giant (various colors), Aurora, Agave, and Ballerina . 💙 4) Cornflower (aka Bachelor Buttons) bring a gorgeous purple-blue pop to your garden, are highly attractive to bees. Birds also love their seeds. Blue Boy is a classic, I also love dark purple Black Magic or dwarf Jubilee Gem. . 🌻 5) Sunflowers, one of the most standout companion flowers for bees, butterflies and birds alike. Plus, you can grill the biggest heads and certain varieties produce excellent snacking seeds. But make sure you don’t accidentally buy “pollenless” varieties! 🙅🏼‍♀️ Faves: Autumn Beauty, Mammoth, Evening Colors, Goldy Double, Lemon Queen + more. . 🏵 6) Marigolds are said to repel pests insects, and the roots of French Marigolds deter root knot nematodes in the soil, making it an especially awesome companion for tomatoes (its roots need to be left in the soil to be effective. Poufy Tangerine Gem is a fave around here! ❤️ Comment “list” and I’ll send you my complete flower guide full of growing tips, photos, and even more popular varieties! Note that all of these flowers readily re-seed in your garden. Plant them once, and you may never need to again! 😅 #gardenlove #pollinatorgarden #flowergarden #gardening #flowerpower

🌱 Thinning is winning 🙌🏽 I always thin my seedlings EARLY, soon after their first set of “true leaves” appear (the ones that grow after the initial sprout) and they reward me with explosive growth! I’ve done many side-by-side comparisons, and thinned seedlings always quickly grow to 3 to 4x the size of those left crowded to compete for root space, nutrients, water, light and more. ✂️ I usually prefer to snip out excess seedlings instead of pulling/plucking them out, which reduces risk of breaking the roots of the ones I’m keeping - which could stunt those too. Personally, I also don’t care to gently separate and individually pot them all up - an extra step, and we don’t need even more seedlings! (Or have the space under our grow lights for 2-3x as many) That said, we don’t let the snipped ones go to waste! Most all veggie and herb seedlings are edible (think leafy greens, broccoli and other brassicas, radishes, sunflowers, etc) except for nightshades like tomatoes, eggplant or peppers seedlings (don’t eat those). All those expensive “microgreens” at the natural food store are just seedlings too! Even better, those tiny microgreens are LOADED with nutrients. Sprouts are said to have up to 6x higher the concentration of vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants than the greens of their mature counterparts. 💡 Other ways we promote big healthy seedling growth: - starting with a mix of 2/3 seedling mix and 1/3 richer potting soil (and/or worm castings) - starting in fairly big seedling containers (large 2” cell 6-packs for most things, small 4” pots for tomatoes, and 6” pots for fast-growing squash) so that the seedlings don’t get root bound and reduces our need to pot up as soon, or at all. - using good strong grow lights, and keep them hung just a few inches above the plants (raise as they grow) - bottom-watering in the tray below, which encourages deep root growth compared to top-watering - watering with dilute seaweed extract or fish fertilizer once or twice, but only after they’re at least a few weeks old I hope this is helpful, and let me know if you have any questions! 💚 . . . . . . . . #gardening #gardentips #homesteading #gardenlife #growfood