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Season Extension Keeps Your Garden Growing Into Fall

Crops & Gardening | Equipment | Farm & Garden | Homesteading |
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Extend your growing season and get sweeter veggies by planting some cold-weather crops that actually improve with a touch of frost.

Cucumbers: “Garden To Facial” Cucumber Cubes 

Crops & Gardening | Farm & Garden | Homesteading |
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Is your garden producing more cucumbers than you can use? Make these easy cucumber ice cubes for a simply refreshing skin and face product.

Video: Basic Fall Flock Maintenance For Your Sheep

Animals | Farm & Garden | Homesteading | Large Animals | Video |
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Fall is a welcome break from summer's stressful conditions, so seize this opportunity to do some basic flock maintenance on your sheep to get them ready for breeding.

Pick Plantain To Help Maintain Your Health & Comfort

Farm & Garden | Foraging | Homesteading |
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You'll find plantain in broad- and narrowleaf varieties, both of which can be harvested and prepared to aid with digestion, skin issues and more.

The Honest Truth About Marans, 3 More Chicken Breeds (Pt. 3) 

Animals | Chickens 101 | Farm & Garden | Homesteading | Poultry |
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Looking at four more popular chicken breeds, we discuss real-life experiences keeping Dutch Booted Bantams, Japanese Bantams, Polish and Marans.

Cattle Feeding Basics: Evaluate Your Energy

Animals | Farm & Garden | Homesteading | Large Animals |
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In this ongoing look at the basics of feeding cattle, we turn our attention to energy: what it means, what delivers this component and providing it to your herd.

5 Purposes For Dried Sunflowers In The Autumn Season

Beginning Farmers | Crops & Gardening | Farm & Garden | Homesteading |
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In late summer and early autumn, sunflowers may lose their beauty, but the spent flowers still have plenty of uses. Here are 5 to consider.

Painting Antiques & Vintage Farmhouse Furniture Pieces

Farm & Garden | Homesteading | Projects |
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Change up your farmhouse aesthetic by painting older furniture pieces with a fresh coat of color. Here's how to freshen up furniture the right way.

Recycle & Reuse Scrap Metal Around The Farm Or Homestead

Equipment | Farm & Garden | Homesteading |
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Metal is never trash! In addition to selling scrap for a bit of trash, you can always find a use for discarded or found metal around the homestead.

Grass-Fed Cattle Are Just Plain Better For The Bottom Line

Animals | Farm & Garden | Homesteading | Large Animals |
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Grass-finished? Grain-fed? Though there are a lot of confusing terms at play these days, but there's no denying the benefits of raising grass-fed cattle.

A Nutty Adventure: Enjoying A Mast Year For Acorns 

Farm & Garden | Foraging | Homesteading |
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It's a mast year for acorns, but why we don't eat these nuts? Zach Loeks set out on a longboard to find the sweetest oaks with hopes of planting more trees with better flavor.

Linda Vater Is The Queen Of Topiary

Crops & Gardening | Farm & Garden | Homesteading | News |
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Gardening personality Linda Vater talks us through the transition from self-taught hobby gardening to becoming a national gardening guru.

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