Your Self-reliant Homestead
In addition to providing food for your family, your gardens can include crops with uses beneficial to a self-reliant homestead.
Crops for Weaving, Broom making, Cordage, and Thatching
Crops for Biofuel Production Applications
Locally grown, regionally adapted seeds are the key to personal food security so here is how to create your Homestead's Personal Seedstock.
Be sure to check Plant, Grow, Use, & Save Seed - an assemblage of bulletins and presentations on our favorite crops.
Seed drying trays for processing your seed stock.
Also please see this collection of our varieties that are highly ornamental, making them perfect for crafting or that showy garden spot.