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Attract Specific Bird Types With A Customized Suet Cake

Farm Management | Homesteading | Urban Farming |
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Creating your own suet cake is a great way to save money. Customizing the recipe also helps support certain species' winter needs.

How To Make Homemade Suet Cakes For Bird Treats

Farm Management | Homesteading |
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Love watching backyard birds but tired of paying for expensive suet cakes? Rendering beef fat is the first step in making your own homemade suet cakes.

20 Homesteading Skills To Learn In 2020

Beginning Farmers | Homesteading | Urban Farming |
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Want to learn new homesteading skills in 2020? Great! Here are 20 skills to learn, practice and add to your search for self-sustenance.

Craft Handmade Turkey Tail Mushroom Paper

Homesteading
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By themselves or combined with other materials, shelf fungi are pretty, plentiful and perfect for making handmade mushroom paper.

Herbs To Grow And Use For Depression

Crops & Gardening | Homesteading |
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Depression is often at its worst during the winter months, and farmers aren't immune. Growing healing herbs, however, can provide some extra support.

Pomegranate Is A Festive And Medicinal Fruit

Crops & Gardening | Homesteading |
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Learn about the myths and medicinal benefits of this popular holiday fruit, which you can grow yourself indoors or out.

Reclaimed Barnwood: 5 Uses For Salvaged Materials

Equipment | Homesteading |
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Old barns are beautiful, but sometimes they have to come down. Here are five ways to use reclaimed barnwood when a structure is demolished.

Sweet Potatoes and Yams: How Are They Different?

Crops & Gardening | Homesteading |
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If you enjoy a sweet, orange vegetable side-dish at Thanksgiving, you're probably eating sweet potatoes and not yams, no matter what your family calls it.

Grow St. John’s Wort for Health and Wellness

Crops & Gardening | Homesteading |
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You should grow St. John's Wort for its many health and wellness attributes.

Beekeeper DIY: How to Make Beeswax Candles

Beekeeping | Homesteading |
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Many beekeepers take advantage of fall and winter to make use of harvested products. Here are instructions for making candles in jars from beeswax.

Grow And Use These 7 Herbs For Stress Relief

Crops & Gardening | Homesteading |
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Nature provides plenty of sources to help relieve everyday tension and anxiety. Here are some examples and how you can use herbs for stress relief.

Home Brewing Your Own Beer: There’s a Day Devoted to That

Homesteading | News |
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Learn to Home Brew Day is Nov. 2. We talk to the director of the American Homebrewers Association about the remarkable potential found in beer-making.

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