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How to Make Homemade Firestarters, Candles and Matches
Add to Favorites By Bob Schrader – Imagine it’s been raining and your campsite is drenched. The matches got damp and you need to start a campfire to warm up and …
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How to Build an Energy-Efficient Home
Add to Favorites The challenge of learning how to build an energy-efficient home is not in the engineering and design: it’s in juggling the trade-offs. Every element of a home has ramifications …
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How to Start Living Off The Grid With Young Children
Add to Favorites By Abby Stout – I kept wondering, where are all the articles for us moms who are trying to create a homestead or who want to learn …
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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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On-Pasture Ram Trials
Add to Favorites By Tim King Shepherds and University Extension personnel at Virginia Tech are working together to increase parasite resistance and growth in sheep raised in predominantly forage based …
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Many Opportunities for Marketing Lamb
Add to Favorites Originally published in the November / December 2016 issue of sheep! magazine. By Gayle Smith – Unique opportunities are out there for marketing the annual lamb crop, but …
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Inborn Worm Resistance In Lambs: How To Breed For It
“Parasite resistance in Katahdin hair sheep can be improved by selective breeding. That improved resistance in Katahdins may be able to be passed on to wool sheep breeds through cross breeding.”
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Make Room in Your Garden With Climbers And Crawlers
Add to Favorites By Glenn G. Dahlem, Ph.D. Farmers with 1,500 acres available and urban backyard gardeners alike often have the same complaint: “If I only had just a little more …
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Livable Sheds: A Surprising Solution to Affordable Housing
Add to Favorites In the spring of 2011, tornadoes ripped through west central Louisiana over the course of several days. These storms left hundreds homeless. A surprising solution was utilized …
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Go Green with Sedum Roofs
Add to Favorites Having a sedum roof or other live plants growing purposefully on your barn, coop or dwelling has many advantages. In addition to being aesthetic, these living roofs …
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Turning Two Outbuildings into a Cheap Metal Shed
Add to Favorites Romie Holl – On my property, there were two metal structures that I wanted to combine into one cheap metal shed. One was an 18 x 22 garage, …
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Rainwater Harvesting: It’s a Good Idea (Even if You Have Running Water)
In my grandparents’ day, rainwater harvesting was one of the best ways of conserving water. My grandmother collected rainwater in a barrel at the corner of the house for decades.
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A Simple, DIY 3-Bin System for Composting Ingredients
Composting ingredients are free and discarded from kitchens and gardens. But can you build a three-bin system for almost as cheap?
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Outsmarting a Deere
Add to Favorites Nothing can stop a homesteader with a skid steer. Piles of snow, mountains of manure, hills of gravel—all are easily handled with the help of a skid …
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Beef Cattle Farming for Beginners
Add to Favorites The Livestock Book by W. R. Thompson and John McKinney, 1952, was intended as an introductory/overview of the potential of raising livestock as a career. Its sections …
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