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How to Save Electricity at Home During the Holidays
As beautiful as the holidays can be with lights and displays, it can also get pricey. Here’s some tips on how to save electricity through the holiday season.
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Building Planter Boxes for Strawberries
Add to Favorites By Sue Robishaw – It wasn’t that the old chicken wire covers we’d constructed five years ago didn’t work, they did. I had an idea for building …
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Building Elevated Planter Boxes for Easier Gardening
Add to Favorites By Anita B. Stone Building elevated planter boxes helps bring plants closer. They’re great for children, disabled gardeners, or the elderly. Gardening can be an incredibly rewarding …
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Know The Importance Of Basic Wilderness Survival Gear
Add to Favorites By Jim Cobb, Wisconsin This is the time of year when families begin planning summer vacations. Quite often, those trips involve spending some quality time out in …
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Natural Ways for Dealing with Cold Temperatures
Add to Favorites By Christopher Nyerges, California Let’s start from the beginning. Let’s start with you and what you do and what you wear when it gets cold outside. Then we’ll …
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How to Keep Cool This Summer
Everyone, not just the young or elderly, is at risk in the heat. Know the dangers of heat, the warning signs of trouble, and how to keep cool this summer.
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DIY Vehicle Emergency Kits
Add to Favorites By Jim Cobb Torrential rain, ice storms, engine breakdown, blizzards, flash floods—all of these and more could result in you being stranded on the side of the …
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On the Road Again (Hopefully)…
Add to Favorites By Jim Cobb — For many, summer means vacation. Even homesteaders need to get away once in a while. Here in the United States, many families opt …
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Solar Water Heating Off the Grid
Add to Favorites By Dan Fink, Colorado Solar electric systems are getting a lot of exposure these days, capturing media and public attention with massive utility-scale photovoltaic arrays covering acres, …
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Simple Homesteading: Food Culture is About Sharing
Add to Favorites I’ve always gardened and cooked for my family. But I didn’t realize how much my simple homesteading centered on them until I no longer had family to …
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Hannah’s Farmhouse Chocolate Pecan Banana Bread
Add to Favorites by Hannah McClure– Around our home, fruit is one must-have grocery item year round. From mandarins and apples to berries and bananas, my little ones and I …
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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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Cooking Duck Breasts
Add to Favorites Photos & Story By Janice Cole, Minnesota If you’re looking for something special to serve this holiday season, think duck. That is, duck breasts. Yes, you can …
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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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North to Alaska!
St. Croix sheep tend to conjure images of warm Caribbean islands, but a group recently made the long journey north to establish a breeding flock in Alaska.
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