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Guadalajara — Where Colonial History Meets Modern Mexico
Add to Favorites By Habeeb Salloum, A Taste of Homesteading Around the World Guadalajara, the capital of the state of Jalisco and one of Mexico’s great colonial cities, is considered to …
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Recipes: Middle Eastern Sweets
The delicious pastries of the Middle East have a history that goes back thousands of years. Their roots can be traced to the many civilizations that flowed then ebbed, in that part of the globe.
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Experimenting With Maple Syrup
Add to Favorites By Habeeb Salloum The first stop of our group on the Tap into Maple Route located in Ontario’s Lake Country and Springwater, an area within the larger region …
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Dual Coat Dynamics in Sheep
Many cultures point to dual-coated sheep as a key to survival, from the cold climate of Iceland to the deserts of Central Asia.
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Springrock Jacobs Earn Their Keep
Add to Favorites Featured in the July / August 2017 issue of sheep! Subscribe for more great stories. By Tim King — On a recent Sunday in early March, 19-year-old Lucy …
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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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Profits from a ”Lamb Hub” — Hi-Ho Sheep Farm
Add to Favorites Originally published in the September/October 2016 issue of sheep! magazine. By Jacqueline Harp Buying local is a substantial and growing trend among consumers, restaurants, small grocers and …
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The Lamb Switch
Add to Favorites By Judith Toth Bigham It was late March and lambing season was in full swing at Hado-Bar Farm. When I went to the barn early one morning …
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Sheep Gestation and Slumber Parties: It’s Lambing Season At Owens Farm
Add to Favorites By Caroline Owens – Lambing-time preparations on our farm have a unique twist. We do stock up on the traditional sheep gestation support products such as milk replacer, …
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Sheep Breeds That Pay Their Way
Add to Favorites By Alan Harman – Karen Valley’s flock of 21 sheep, consisting of two sheep breeds (Shetland and colored Cormo cross ewes), tend to stay close to home …
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Raise Meat Sheep Breeds to Boost Profits
Add to Favorites By Dr. Elizabeth Ferraro – There is a growing trend today away from the very large sheep ranches specializing in meat sheep breeds toward an increasing number …
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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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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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Canned Apple Pie Filling
A grocery bag of nice apples will do about 7 quarts. I still hand peel and slice; I don’t like the size of slices you get with an apple peeler.
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Reader Tip: A Fast Way to Preserve Whole Tomatoes
Add to Favorites Dear Countryside, I remember my mother and grandmother canning “stewed tomatoes.” To do so they boiled water on the stove and ran cold water in the sink. …
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