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In Brazil, Eternal Summer
Add to Favorites By Habeeb Salloum, A Taste of Homesteading Around the World I was visiting my relatives on the farm in southern Saskatchewan when a family friend from Brazil remarked, …
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Miami Recipes: Where the People Play & Eat
Add to Favorites By Habeeb Salloum As a child, roaming across the fields of Saskatchewan around our homestead, I hardly ever saw a puddle of water larger than a small pond. …
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How To Make Sauerkraut
Add to Favorites By Linda Baccei This is a method I adapted that combines getting things started with dry salting and then using a brine solution as needed. You will need a large …
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Recipes: Greener Days For You And Your Poultry
Add to Favorites By Janice Cole, Minnesota After a winter that started with an Arctic blast bringing half a foot of snow and plunging temperatures that remained below freezing for endless weeks, …
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Hyden’s Classic Cheviots
Add to Favorites By Tim King — Dean Hyden, of Chewelah, Washington has been raising Border Cheviot sheep for more than four decades. And after all those years, he continues to …
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Bigger Lambs, Without Drugs & Drudgery
Add to Favorites By Patrice Lewis Wool from Norway is justifiably famous for its fineness and beauty. But for sheep to produce wool, they must start as lambs. And lambs, …
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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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Helping Stock Dogs Remember
Add to Favorites By Denice Rackley The last series of articles focused on our first few lessons on stock. We have been concerned about the ideal picture we were looking …
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Your Wool as Yarn
Add to Favorites By Virginia Scholomiti Let’s get down to the nuts and bolts of understanding where and how your fleece may fit into a hand spinner’s palette. This is …
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Filling Fiber Artists’ Palettes
In looking for materials for their next creation, fiber artists and craftsmen seek to purchase raw fleeces to use “as is,” or to process themselves by hand.
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Paired to Perfection
Add to Favorites By Jacqueline Harp Can flock owners find synergies between the marketing of their lamb or mutton and the marketing done by the wine industry in their locality, …
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Alabama’s Dayspring Dairy: Startup From Scratch
Add to Favorites By Tim King Starting an on-farm sheep dairy from scratch is a daunting challenge but it can be done: Greg and Ana Kelly, of Dayspring Dairy near Gallant, …
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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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Trials In Croppy Country, Getting Into The Game
Add to Favorites Originally published in the September/October 2016 issue of sheep! magazine. By Julia Hollister The overflow crowd at the high school football field grew silent as the participants …
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The Texel Fix-All
Add to Favorites By Tim King Texels are a white-faced breed of heavily muscled sheep that originated in the Netherlands. British shepherds became interested in the breed and started importing …
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