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Raising Sheep For Profit: A Cattle Man’s View
Add to Favorites By Thayne Mackey – Sheep are a wonderful little beast. They provide food, fiber and all manner of agitation. This keeps the blood flowing and the arteries …
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Raising Sheep For Profit: How to Sell Raw Fleece
Add to Favorites By Bonnie Sutten – When I first started raising sheep for profit, raw fleece sales were on the bottom of my priority list. I thought that if …
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Raising Sheep: Buying and Caring for Your First Flock
Add to Favorites By Marvin R. Gray – So you’ve moved to the country and have been thinking about raising sheep on your five or 10 acres. Perhaps you have only limited …
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Raising Sheep For Profit: Milking Sheep Offer a Small Farm Alternative
Add to Favorites By J.D. Belanger – Question: Like most homesteaders who weren’t originally interested in raising sheep for profit, I’d love to find a way to earn some money …
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A Guide to Using Steam Canners
Steam canners have been around since at least the early 1900s, but for many years the USDA maintained that steam canning is unsafe.
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Choosing and Using Canning Lids
Lids for home canning come in one of two diameters, depending on whether they fit narrow-mouth jars or wide-mouth jars.
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Why Can?
Whether you are a veteran home canner, or have just begun taking your first tentative steps into preserving your own homegrown food, you already know many of the reasons why anyone would bother.
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How To Select Canning Jars
Add to Favorites By Gail Damerow Canning jars come in two main categories, depending on the diameter of the opening. A narrow mouth jar, also known as a regular or …
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Beat the Heat with These Super Cool Foods
It may be hot outside, but it doesn’t mean you have to lose your cool! Stocking your kitchen with the right foods will keep you chilled out all summer long. In addition to eating these fresh picks, be sure to drink plenty of water and eat lightly!
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Learn How to Make Flavored Vinegar
Add to Favorites By Rita Heikenfeld and Erin Phillips – Remember when buying vinegar meant choosing between distilled, clear grain vinegar, cider, and a few choices of red and white …
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Delicious Eggplant Recipes and More
Add to Favorites By Jean Smith, Michigan — Locally sourced, homegrown, all-natural, organic … these are a just a few of the keywords that we as foodies and locavores look …
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Store Salad Greens for Later Use
Add to Favorites By Anne Hart Lieb, Ohio — Storing salad greens has been an issue for many gardeners, because green leafy vegetables normally do not respond well to canning, drying, …
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Crabapples
Now treated primarily as ornamentals, these trees have uses that go far beyond being pretty or being used as a source of crabapple jelly.
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There’s No End to Zucchini Recipes!
Summer is the season for zucchini. If you have zucchini coming out of your ears, here are some delicious recipes you may want to try.
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Fill Your Pantry With Help From Mother Nature
You can fill your winter pantry at little to no expense by carving out the time to tap into the bountiful resources that Mother Nature has to offer.
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