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Kids and Coopworths: Sheep Camp at Owens Farm
Add to Favorites By Caroline Owens – What do you get when you combine summer, kids, and Coopworth sheep? Sheep Camp! The 1st of February is a critically important day for …
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Plant Pumpkins Now For Fall Faces Later
Add to Favorites By Nancy Pierson Farries, South Carolina If you want a Jack-o-lantern for Halloween, a big pumpkin for harvest season decor, or pumpkin pie for Thanksgiving, you can …
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Growing Luffa
Add to Favorites By Carole West, Texas Did you know Luffa grows on a vine and not in the ocean? It’s true and the most common question we received was, …
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How to Grow Your Own Halloween Pumpkins
Even beginners can grow a spectacular patch with enough Cucurbitaceae to meet anyone’s fall decorative needs.
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How to Grow Potatoes
Those who have never tasted a freshly dug potato haven’t experienced true potato flavor. This article is a tutorial for how to grow potatoes and enjoy their delicious taste and versatility.
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Stress Relief Techniques: RX From Mother Nature
Add to Favorites No doubt about it, stress is a normal part of life. But there’s good news: stress can be managed in the most basic of ways with a …
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A Guide to Growing Seedlings Indoors
To harvest mature tender vegetables before fall, you need to start growing seedlings indoors about six to eight weeks before your last spring frost.
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Mulching Benefits All Year Long
Add to Favorites In my dream world, every gardening season starts with a blank slate of properly prepared, weed-free beds just waiting to be planted. Of course, that’s not how …
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The Best Approach to Milking Cows is Consistency
Add to Favorites By John Hibma – What could be more satisfying, more rewarding than owning your own cow? Milking cows yields milk daily for your table. You could make your own …
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Creative Lavender Uses in the Kitchen
Add to Favorites When we moved into our home two years ago, I planted lavender all across the front of the house because I find it so calming to smell …
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Laryngitis Home Remedies That Actually Work
Add to Favorites As if getting sick from a virus isn’t bad enough, it’s the laryngitis that comes along with my symptoms that turns me into a total wimp. Fortunately, …
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Growing and Harvesting the Thyme Plant
Add to Favorites I love growing all the popular culinary herbs, but one of my favorites is the thyme plant. It not only makes a pretty ground cover in the …
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Charcoal Uses: A New Look at an Old Medicinal
Add to Favorites By Rene Ammundsen – Charcoal uses are nothing new. In fact, charcoal has been around so long that many of us have forgotten just how useful it can …
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Extract Natural Dye for Wool from Goldenrod Plants
Add to Favorites By Christine Lundsten McKahan – Five years ago, as my husband and I wandered around our two acres of newly purchased homesteading land, surrounded by rolling hills, grazing …
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