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Heat and Eat on a Wood-Burning Cook Stove
Add to Favorites By Gail Reynolds, Missouri – Among the most common of homestead essentials is learning how to cook on the wood-burning cook stove. For most Countryside readers, the ultimate …
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Fire In Your Pasture: Friend or Foe?
Add to Favorites Originally published in the March/April 2017 issue of Sheep! magazine. Subscribe for more great stories! By John Kirchhoff, Kirchhoff Katahdins Renick, Missouri Fire in your pasture is …
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Safety in the Garden
Add to Favorites By Mary St. Clair While gardening is a healthy and fun pastime, it’s important to remember there are risks involved. Enthusiasm for getting out in the garden …
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Growing Strawberries Organically
Add to Favorites By Tim King – I am a strawberry enthusiast. In fact, strawberries are my favorite crop. The fruit is stunningly beautiful. It’s more than delicious. At their …
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Rain Water Harvesting: It’s a Good Idea (Even if You Have Running Water)
Add to Favorites By Wayne Robertson – In my grandparents’ day, rain water harvesting was one of the best ways of conserving water. My grandmother collected rainwater in a barrel at the …
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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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Homemade Barbecue Pits: A Fun Way to Fertilize Your Soil
Add to Favorites An ancient concept, homemade barbecue pits incorporate three things: fire, the ground, and food. Today the same concept can be employed for emergency cooking or tender slow-roasted …
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Essential Home Remedies for Carpal Tunnel
Add to Favorites When the weather gets cold and dry every winter, I break out my home remedies for carpal tunnel syndrome. It used to be that I spent the …
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12 Natural Home Remedies for Toothaches
Add to Favorites In my experience, a toothache can pop up when you least expect it or when it’s most inconvenient. That’s why having a few options for home remedies …
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7 Home Remedies For Acid Reflux
Add to Favorites Do you or a loved one suffer with acid reflux? There are home remedies for acid reflux which offer relief. If you’re reading this article, the chances …
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Using Comfrey, Parsley, St. John’s Wort, and Arnica For Bruises
Add to Favorites As the mother of a very active little boy, one of the best things I’ve learned to do through my training as an Ayurvedic practitioner is how …
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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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