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DIY: Make Peanut Butter
Add to Favorites Grow Your Own Peanut Butter! By Jim Hunter, Arkansas Peanut butter is one of our favorite foods. We became disenchanted with the commercial brands after seeing other …
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How to Make Homemade Granola
Add to Favorites Running out of homemade granola during blueberry season is a capital offense at our house. One of the reasons we tend to run out is that homemade …
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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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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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How to Make Elderberry Wine
Add to Favorites By Kevin Greer What a surprise to learn that the berry bushes and trees scattered around my ranch, growing wild, are elderberries. They’re everywhere, grow vigorously, and …
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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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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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North to Alaska!
Add to Favorites By Yates Colby & Bill Marion St. Croix sheep tend to conjure images of warm Caribbean islands and sandy beaches. Recently, a group of St. Croix sheep …
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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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Choosing and Using Canning Lids
Add to Favorites Artwork by Bethany Caskey For canning food in jars, only lids designed for the purpose will provide a safe seal. Lids for home canning come in one of …
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How To Select Canning Jars
Add to Favorites By Gail Damerow Canning jars come in two main categories, depending on the diameter of the opening. A narrow mouth jar, also known as a regular or …
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7 Canning Myths: Inventing Canning Recipes and Other Bad Ideas
Add to Favorites There’s a lot of advice floating around the internet about canning, including the idea that you can make up your own canning recipes. Although it’s tempting to …
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