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Fresh herbs are one of the rare farm products that can feel premium to shoppers while still being an easy “yes” purchase. They’re light, high-margin, and impulse-friendly—especially when you solve the consumer’s real problem:

Home cooks want just enough of the right herbs, in one grab, with minimal waste.

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Beautiful, Weather‑Hardy Herb Garden Markers (DIY + Pro Tips)

For over 20 years we have wrestled with the topic of how best to label an herb bed… with a professionally-looking Herb Marker. This article covers this topic from a Do-It-Yourself (DIY) perspective so that you have the herb signage ready, come Spring.

We also want to suggest that you can add these herb markers to your product portfolio, if the urge strikes you… along with the added revenue stream.

Let’s get down to herb marker business!

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Why Natives? Why Us?

Introducing native plants to your garden or land can bring many seasons of delight and discovery. Their many merits, though, exceed their virtues of beauty, resilience and appeal to birds and pollinators.

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The floral facial steam—a centuries-old herbal ritual—can become a modern wellness product that appeals to spas, apothecaries, and online shoppers seeking natural skincare and relaxation. This guide explains how to source, blend, package, and market your own herbal steam line for consistent sales and brand growth.

Let’s jump on this revenue-stream opportunity!

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Why Chickens?

Chickens are often the gateway livestock for small farms, market gardens, and homesteads scaling into professional operations. They require relatively low startup costs, provide a dual revenue stream in eggs and meat, and integrate naturally with crop enterprises through pest control and soil enrichment. For beginning farmers and ranchers, chickens represent both a cash flow starter and a systems learning tool.

🐔 Poultry Selection: Choosing the Right Birds for Your Farm

For newcomers, nothing sets the stage for long-term poultry success like choosing the right birds. Chickens (and their cousins in the poultry world) are not all the same. Your selection should align with your farm’s purpose, whether that’s producing meat, gathering eggs, or even harvesting specialty feathers for craft markets. Below, we break it down into the most common categories — the ones you’ll need to weigh carefully before you ever bring your first chicks home.

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Want to add a new revenue stream? Then think herbal vinegars!

Let’s do this…

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If you like herbal cream cheeses such as the well-known Boursin… read on!

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This post provides an audio podcast of Farm and ranch “packaged solution systems” in general and the one known globally as Holistic Resource Management (HRM ) or Holistic Management (HM) from Holistic Management International (HMI) of Albuqueque, NM. The Founder of Grow Food Homestead interviews Phil Wilson. Phil is a proponent of HM because it addresses farm and ranch success, problem-solving and planning for both profit and retirement. The length of the discussion is 1 hour and 2 minutes.

Let's listen in.

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Hey, pro farmers, market garden operators, back-yard homesteaders, advanced gardeners and friends.

We have some BIG and IMPORTANT news to share with you, today!

Here’s what’s up:

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The Future of Farming: Comparing Hydroponic Methods for Maximum Yield

As traditional agriculture faces mounting challenges from climate change, soil depletion, and water scarcity, hydroponic farming has emerged as a game-changer. This soil-less cultivation method allows for optimized plant growth, higher yields, and resource efficiency. However, with multiple hydroponic systems available, how do growers choose the right one? This article explores the various hydroponic methods, evaluating their popularity, efficiency, and production potential.

Here’s the top hydroponic alternatives…

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If you’re organization would like us to help you schedule our Holistic Management certification courses, just let us know. Here’s an overview of the Foundation certification:

Welcome to the Foundations of Holistic Management Whole Farm/Ranch Planning course!

In this course you will learn how to effectively manage your farm or ranch through the principles and practices of Holistic Management® —a nationally recognized whole farm/ranch planning process.

You will have the opportunity to learn not only how to manage your farm/ranch for the triple bottom line (social, environmental, and financial sustainability) and more effectively manage resources, but also be able to ask questions of how to help others with that process.

Learn how to improve your ability to observe, understand, and make decisions, based on what you can control and ask the right questions to facilitate that process for others.

Through these new skills you can improve your ability to work with nature and to increase your productivity and share those ideas with others.

Key Outcomes You Will Learn:

• How Holistic Management* & Whole Farm /Ranch Planning can enhance your success

• How to meet your management challenges effectively

• How to address key environmental issues effectively

• What Holistic Management adds to your management toolbox

• What to do next

About the Course

We will be using Google Classroom as the learning platform for this course. The course is divided into into seven sessions including a mid-module review session. Each session includes:

1. a powerpoint presentation

2. manual readings

3. an exercise (or two)
   

   Each session also includes a webinar which will be hosted live once a week for the seven-week duration of the course. We encourage you to participate in the live webinars whenever possible as they are highly interactive, however, they are recorded for later viewing at your leisure if you miss one. You can find the links to the webinar recordings under the "Orientation & Announcements" tab in Google Classroom.
   
   

This is a lot of information to grasp in just seven weeks so we will leave the Google Classroom Platform open for an extra month following the last webinar. We encourage you use this time to re-watch the webinars, dive deeper into the manual readings and turn in any outstanding exercises for feedback. Also, feel free to download all the materials and save them on your personal devices for future refreshers.

All exercises are due for feedback one month after the last webinar. (If you need extra time to complete your exercises please contact…)

TOPICS
Eight principles and practices for effective resource management
Developing a Management Inventory for better management of assets
Goal Setting for effective decision-making, planning, and management
Four ecosystem processes & how to work with them
Seven testing questions for prioritizing actions
Tool basics & their influence on ecosystem processes

OUTCOMES
You’ll develop a whole farm (holistic) goal which clearly articulates the vision for your farm/ranch, the organizational structure, and the resources available.
Incorporate a triple bottom line analysis filter to help you make decisions more effectively (particularly in a group setting or where there are conflicts around key issues).
Learn the principles of how Nature functions and understand how tools affect ecosystem health.

What got our attention, early on, is the holistic nature of this methodology:

If you don’t address your social and economic needs in the process, you will have

trouble sustaining any progress you’ve made on the land. That’s why Holistic

Management helps people look at the environmental, economic, and social short and

long-term consequences of their decisions and management.

You just use this simple management tool in conjunction with all the other tools you already have in your toolbox, maximizing your effectiveness as a resource manager.

Holistic Management, simply put, helps us make better, more informed decisions that balance social and environmental as well as financial considerations, while leading us in the direction we want our lives to take.

Which brings us full circle, back to these principles:

This is a certificate course that you’ll want to consider for advancing your inner potential!!!

Until Next Time…

I am…

Phil Wilson…

And Here’s to Building the Soil Beneath Our Feet!

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Foundation Certification

In this course you will learn how to effectively manage your farm or ranch through the principles and practices of Holistic Management® —a nationally recognized whole farm/ranch planning process.

You will have the opportunity to learn not only how to manage your farm/ranch for the triple bottom line (social, environmental, and financial sustainability) and more effectively manage resources, but also be able to ask questions of how to help others with that process.

Learn how to improve your ability to observe, understand, and make decisions, based on what you can control and ask the right questions to facilitate that process for others.

Through these new skills you can improve your ability to work with nature and to increase your productivity and share those ideas with others.

I look forward to telling you about our own Holistic Resource Management journey with you, and convince you of my claim that this is the top, or one of the top farm and ranch methodologies which we know about!

Here’s to sharing my Holistic Resource Management education journey with you!

Phil Wilson

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