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Tips for Successful Wild Game Meat Processing
If properly processed, in the field as well as at home, game meat can be some of the best eatin’ you’ve ever experienced.
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Make Your Freezer Drought-Ready With These Food Preservation Methods
Certain fruits and vegetables that didn’t come from your garden or a farmers market, probably came from either California or Central/South America.
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Freezing: Food Preservation For Your Garden Greens
Add to Favorites Why do we preserve food? All those plantings often provide way more greens than can be eaten at once. To save abundant garden greens for later use, try …
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Rules for Safe Water Bath Canning
Our grandmothers did things differently. But that was before they knew what we know now.
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Food Preservation Examples: A Guide to Food Storage
Add to Favorites I tell my friends there are two types of people: preppers and those who laugh at preppers. Why is preparing for a rainy day such a laughable …
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A Tasty Recipe for 3-Bean Salad
When I picked my most recent bean harvest, I just couldn’t stand the thought of another round of Dilly Beans so I went in search of something new to make.
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6 Uses For Your Watermelon Plant’s Bounty
Add to Favorites The beginning of the summer is when you read about watermelon planting tips, but this is the time of year when you start to think: What do …
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Home Remedy Hacks for Sunburn Pain
When sunburns happen, we can ease the pain and speed the healing with simple home remedies. Here are six of my favorite home remedy hacks for relieving sunburn pain.
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How to Use Vinegar as a Natural Weed Deterrent
Add to Favorites By Becky Pederson – The history of vinegar is quite interesting. It is one of the oldest products used by humans dating back some 10,000 years. The …
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Gourds For Farmers And Homesteaders
Add to Favorites By Anita B. Stone, Raleigh, North Carolina There is a legend that says, “If you give or receive a gourd, with it goes all the best in life; …
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Make Room in Your Garden With Climbers And Crawlers
Add to Favorites By Glenn G. Dahlem, Ph.D. Farmers with 1,500 acres available and urban backyard gardeners alike often have the same complaint: “If I only had just a little more …
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Six Steps To Starting And Saving Heirloom Tomatoes
Add to Favorites By Melisa Mink, Homestead Moma, Mississippi If the first tomato of the year is something you long after, this is for you. Growing and saving your heirloom tomato seed is …
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Time For Summer Squash
When sunny summer days arrive, I think summer squash. Summer squash are low in calories (15 per half cup) and go with almost anything.
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Kohlrabi: I Grow An Oddball
Add to Favorites By Nancy Pierson Farris, South Carolina Kohlrabi: the oddball among vegetables I grow in spring. The word means turnip-cabbage. Like a turnip, kohlrabi produces an edible bulb. Unlike …
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Fast-Growing Plants For Impatient Gardeners
Add to Favorites By Armani Tavares For those of us who suffer from a chronic condition known as impatience, here are some plants that I can recommend growing. They’re easy, …
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