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6 Fall Tasks To Ready Your Small Farm For Winter

Beginning Farmers | Crops & Gardening | Farm & Garden | Farm Management | Homesteading | Permaculture |
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Fall is a lovely season on the farm, but it's also a time to get things ready in advance for winter. Here are six tasks to complete before cold sets in.

Recipe: Scrumptious Sweet & Spicy Blueberry Jam

Beginning Farmers | Farm & Garden | Food | Recipes |
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This simple blueberry jam recipe warms things up with red pepper flakes for a sweet and spicy topping that's great with crackers, toast or all by itself!

Say Cheese! For Recent Reader Livestock Photos

Animals | Beginning Farmers | Farm & Garden | Flock Talk | Large Animals | Poultry |
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This round of "Say Cheese" contenders includes perky piglets, goats gathered in greeting, a kitten playing peek-a-boo and much more!

DragonSpunk Helps Community Gardens Become Healing Spaces

Beginning Farmers | Farm & Garden | Urban Farming |
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Isaiah Powell from DragonSpunk, a San Francisco organization, tells us why local green spaces are so necessary and soil is the new oil.

8 Tips For Getting Started With Beef Cattle

Animals | Beginning Farmers | Farm & Garden | Homesteading | Large Animals |
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Considering hand-raising beef cattle for your family's needs? Here are 8 tips to keep in mind when buying homestead cattle for the first time.

Exploring Fiber Farming With Ruby Wolf Farm

Animals | Beginning Farmers | Large Animals |
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Ruby Wolf Farm founder Lauren Slingluff tells us how early memories of her mom's floor loom helped inspire her own fiber farm.

5 Easy Ways To Preserve Kale For Long-Term Storage

Beginning Farmers | Crops & Gardening | Farm & Garden | Food | Homesteading |
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Have more kale than you can possibly use? There's no need to let this cut-and-come-again superfood go to waste! Here's how to preserve kale.

At Spring Valley Stock Farms, Rotational Grazing Just Makes Sense

Animals | Beginning Farmers | Farm & Garden | Homesteading | Large Animals |
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Clint and Bobbi Jo Finney breathe new life into their Spring Valley Stock Farms and surrounding community with rotational grazing and regenerative farming.

Work To Wear: Farm Living Fashion, Down To the Boots

Beginning Farmers | Equipment | Farm & Garden |
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This collection of durable, practical farmwear includes comfortable jeans, stain-proof slacks, hardworking boots and more!

How To Tell If A Watermelon Is Ripe For Harvest 

Beginning Farmers | Crops & Gardening | Farm & Garden | Homesteading |
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You'll find a plethora of tips for determining watermelon ripeness, but follow a few simple guidelines and you can know when to harvest.

Grow An Overwintered Garden With These Crops

Beginning Farmers | Crops & Gardening | Equipment | Farm & Garden | Farm Management | Homesteading | Urban Farming |
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Spring and summer don’t have to be the only seasons for your garden. Overwinter these crops and enjoy home harvests well into the cold months.

Snapdragons, Rainbow Eggs Star At Goose Pond Homestead

Animals | Beginning Farmers | Chicken Coops & Housing | Farm & Garden | Homesteading | Poultry |
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Telo Anderson from the Wisconsin-based homestead tells us about using a farm stand to forge connections with the local community.

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