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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.

Healing Herbs: 7 Herbal Sleep Remedies

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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

Crops & Gardening | Homesteading | News |
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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

Crops & Gardening | Homesteading | News |
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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.

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