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Healing Herbs: 7 Herbal Sleep Remedies

Crops & Gardening | Homesteading |
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These herbal sleep remedies can help you ease stress, anxiety and muscle tension, promoting more regular and deeper sleep.

Food Preservation: Lacto-Fermentation For Any Fruit

Homesteading
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The preservation method of lacto-fermentation gives you a way to enjoy fruit for several weeks without overloading on sugar. Here's how it works.

How to Find a Responsibly Raised Turkey

Homesteading | Urban Farming |
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This Thanksgiving, give thanks for a dinner that includes a turkey raised ethically on pasture by a local farmer. Here's how to find such a bird.

Grow Ginkgo for Food & Medicinal Uses

Crops & Gardening | Homesteading |
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The ginkgo tree has a rich and symbolic history as well as multiple potential uses for food and medicine. It's hardy and grows tall and wide.

Use These Herbs to Fight Cold & Flu Viruses

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When the common cold or its cousin, the flu, has you feeling blue, turn to herbs for relief as alternatives or supplements to pharmaceuticals.

Turkey Power Fuels Prose and Cons Poultry Farm

Animals | Homesteading | News | Poultry | Waterfowl |
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This poultry paradise is becoming a social media hit thanks to a one-eyed turkey named Stew and a flock guardian called RJ. We speak with a farm founder.

Establish a Corridor for Pollinators in Your Neighborhood

Beekeeping | Crops & Gardening | Farm Management | Homesteading | News |
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Coordinating gardening efforts with nearby property owners can help honeybees, hummingbirds, butterflies and other pollinators.

Get to Know Yucca: Hardy, Antibacterial & Anti-inflammatory

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Two species of yucca, one called "soapweed" and another called "Mojave yucca," are tough plants that have distinct looks and medicinal uses.

Silkie Chicks in Tutus? Welcome to the Happy Hen Haven

Animals | Homesteading | Poultry |
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This Iowa-based hobby farm hosts more than 50 chickens—and its Instagram page features adorable Silkie chickens and chicks ... some wearing tutus.

Manage & Minimize Creosote Buildup in Your Chimney

Homesteading | News |
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Creosote buildup can be a serious concern with wood stoves and fireplaces. Follow these tips to minimize the risk of a chimney fire.

Is a Tiny House Right for Your Farm?

Farm Management | Homesteading | News |
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The tiny house movement is gaining popularity throughout the United States. Here are five reasons a tiny home might make sense for your hobby farm.

Storytelling: A Great Method to Grow & Sustain Farming

Beginning Farmers | Homesteading | News |
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Storytelling is central to much of farming's history. It just might be the key to preserving its future, too. Here's how that could work.

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