Old Ways New Days

🌱🪱 WHAT'S REALLY HAPPENING BENEATH YOUR FEET? 🍄🌎 We spend so much time worrying about what's growing above the ground that it's easy to forget about the extraordinary world working beneath it. That handful of soil in your garden isn't just dirt. It's a living ecosystem filled with microorganisms, fungi, bacteria, earthworms, and countless interactions that help keep the natural world functioning. And this week on Old Ways New Days, we're going underground! SOURCES & FURTHER READING For li...

When Is a Garden a Garden? What happens when the garden you carefully cultivate becomes someone else’s idea of an overgrown yard? In our latest episode of Old Ways, New Days, we’re digging into the story of an award-winning neighborhood garden in Danville, Illinois, a local property-maintenance dispute, and Illinois’ Vegetable Garden Protection Act. We’re talking about where the line can fall between legitimate property regulations and protections for people who grow food, herbs, flowers, pol...

🌱🍂 WE'RE BACK! SEASON 2 OF OLD WAYS NEW DAYS IS HERE! 🍂🌱 Before we look ahead to a new season of growing, learning, and living a little closer to the land, we're taking a moment to look back. What did Season 1 teach us about growing our own food? 🌿 From seeds and soil to food preservation, garden failures, and the meaning of self-sufficiency, we've learned that homesteading is about so much more than harvesting vegetables. It's about building skills. Learning from our mistakes. Making the mos...

🌱 AT THE GARDEN GATE IS OPEN! 🌱 Have you ever harvested a beautiful tomato, bean, pepper, or flower and thought, “I wish I could grow this again next year”? You can—and you may already have everything you need. This week on At the Garden Gate, we're talking about one of the oldest and most practical gardening skills around: 🌿 Saving your own seeds. We'll talk about: 🌱 Which plants are easiest for beginners 🌱 The difference between heirloom, open-pollinated, and hybrid seeds 🌱 How to choose th...

🌿 We're back. 🌿 Season 2 of Old Ways, New Days is here — same small-space homesteading, same low-key pagan energy, same two people arguing about whether talking to your plants actually works (it does, fight me). This episode: a check-in on where your growing space is right now, a five-minute grounding practice with zero required props, and a real conversation about what season 2 actually looks like. No robes required. There never were. Send us Fan Mail Support the show Find us on Facebook htt...