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Field Garlic & Wild Onions Are Flavorful Foraged Treats

Crops & Gardening | Farm & Garden | Homesteading |
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Field garlic and wild onion are easy to spot (and smell), and their flavorful bulbs and leaves make for good dining, making them a forager's favorite find.

Sew Your Own Fabric Pots For Starting Plants Indoors

Crops & Gardening | Equipment | Farm & Garden | Homesteading | Urban Farming |
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Pots made from scrap denim, felt, landscape fabric and other materials are inexpensive, easy to make and good for plants. Here's how to make some fabric pots yourself!

Growing Herbs For Herbal Products Is Rewarding & Profitable

Crops & Gardening | Farm & Garden | Homesteading |
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Caitlin McMullen works with homegrown herbs and native wild ones to make tinctures, infused herbal oils and an herbal CSA.

From the Herb Garden: Coriander/Cilantro

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Whether you love or hate cilantro (a/k/a, coriander), this controversial herb is also a flavorful, and ancient, winter spice. And its uses go beyond the kitchen!

Preserving Pumpkins & Sprucing Up Old Barns With Pivot Farm

Beginning Farmers | Farm & Garden | Homesteading |
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Brandelyn Tafoya of the Pacific Northwest venture tells us how the Covid-19 pandemic prompted her to take steps to secure her family's wellbeing.

At Blue Truck Bread, Ancient Grains & Sourdough Fuel The Farm

Beginning Farmers | Farm & Garden | Homesteading |
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Jacob and Courtney Cowgill started as vegetable farmers, but circumstances led them to ancient grains and sourdough bread. Today, the couple are proud owners of Blue Truck Bread.

Learn To Weld & Fix Your Own Farm Equipment

Beginning Farmers | Equipment | Homesteading |
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With a minimum investment and some self-education you can begin fixing all of the gates, tractor attachments and trailer hook-ups that have a habit of breaking on your farm.

Video: How to Grow Lion’s Mane Mushrooms Using the ‘Totem’ Method

Beginning Farmers | Crops & Gardening | Farm & Garden | Food | Homesteading | Urban Farming |
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With a little work on the front end, you can enjoy flushes of fresh lion's mane mushrooms for years to come. Here's how to grow your own at home.

Tiffani Thiessen On Backyard Chickens & Hollywood Homesteading

Farm & Garden | Homesteading | News |
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"Saved by the Bell" actress Tiffani Thiessen snags new staring roles as a chicken-keeper, homemaker, gardener and lifestyle brand manager.

How To Make Your Own DIY Household Products

Farm & Garden | Homesteading |
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From toothpaste to cleaners and more, you can ditch wasteful packaging and save some cash with these directions for DIY household products.

Fermenting With Spice Blends (From “Wildcrafted Fermentation”)

Food | Homesteading | Recipes |
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Learn to make wild food kimchi and fermented cattail shoot hearts in this excerpt from Pascal Baudar’s book "Wildcrafted Fermentation."

A Vintage Wood-Burning Stove Helps Fuel The Modern Day Settler

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Kate St.Cyr, known online as the Modern Day Settler, tells us about staying self-sufficient at her antique 1790s New England homestead.

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