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Category: Helpful Guides

Practical guides for Ozark living: gardening, homeschooling, off-grid living, natural healing, and more.

Big leafy comfrey plants growing in a hugelkultur bed edged with old weathered logs, beside the driveway and log house stairs
October 16, 2026October 20, 2026 Patricia Mikkelson

Hugelkultur: Building Garden Beds From Logs, Leaves, and Time

Big leafy comfrey plants filling the front of a lush garden bed on a rocky slope beside the house
October 16, 2026October 20, 2026 Patricia Mikkelson

Comfrey: The Plant I Planted Once and Never Had to Plant Again

Watercolor painting of a log cabin in the Ozark hills in autumn, with a garden bed, a basket of flower bulbs, comfrey plants, and stone-bordered beds in the foreground
October 16, 2026October 20, 2026 Patricia Mikkelson

Rocky Soil and a Permaculture Paradise: A Guide for Ozark Gardeners

A very steep shaded forest hillside with a low fieldstone retaining wall at its foot and narrow stone terraces of blooming woodland flowers and ferns climbing the slope
October 16, 2026October 20, 2026 Patricia Mikkelson

Building a Retaining Wall on a Steep Hillside, When the Time Comes

A fluffy white Great Pyrenees seen from behind, walking beside the green spring pipe toward the springhouse openings
October 16, 2026October 20, 2026 Patricia Mikkelson

Is It a Spring? How to Find One, Watch One, and Bring One to Life

A very steep, shaded wooded hillside with a low fieldstone retaining wall at its foot, woodland flowers and ferns growing along the wall and up the slope
October 14, 2026October 20, 2026 Patricia Mikkelson

Caring for a Steep Hillside Behind Your House

Watercolor painting of an autumn Ozark landscape with a garden bed, a basket of flower bulbs, comfrey plants, and stone-bordered beds in front of colorful wooded hills
October 3, 2026October 20, 2026 Patricia Mikkelson

Planting a Paradise: A Fall Guide for Ozark Gardeners

A white Great Pyrenees standing at the stone springhouse built into a mossy limestone bluff, with a green pipe leading away
October 2, 2026October 20, 2026 Patricia Mikkelson

How Safe Is a Spring? Why What Lives Uphill Matters

Watercolor of children homeschooling outdoors at a picnic table under an oak tree, studying a butterfly and plants with a parent
October 2, 2026October 20, 2026 Patricia Mikkelson

Homeschooling in the Arkansas Ozarks: Rules, Resources, and a Natural Classroom

Illustration of a welcoming small-town clinic in the Ozark hills with a nurse greeting a patient
October 2, 2026October 20, 2026 Patricia Mikkelson

Care Within Reach: Medical, Emergency, and Natural Healing Resources Near Living Springs Log House

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