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Quick Craft: Magnetic Board

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Upcycle an old baking sheet into a magnetic board, perfect for holding recipes, photos or notes to the family.

A Gnawing Suspicion

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Editor's Note from March/April 2013 Hobby Farm Home

5 Tips for Gifting Plants

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Select the perfect plant to gift for an upcoming celebration, and attach one of our printable plant gift tags.

Holiday Place Settings

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Use pinecones from your backyard to create place settings for your holiday dinner table.

Farm Inspiration

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Inspire your favorite farmer or homesteader with these beautiful and inciteful words of wisdom.

The First Farmer

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The first farmer was the first man. All historic nobility rests on the possession and use of land. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Goal of Farming

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The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings. ~Masnunoba Fukuoka

Dignity in Farming

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No race can prosper till it learns there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem. ~Booker T. Washington

City Myth, Country Truth

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There is a city myth that country life was isolated and lonely; the truth is that farmers and their families then had a richer social life than they have now, they enjoyed a society organic, satisfying and whole, not mixed and thinned with the life of town, city and nation as it is now. ~Rose Wilder Lane

Live. Love. Care.

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Live simply. Love generously. Care deeply.

3 Strategies for Clearing the Freezer

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The dull lull of winter always drives the need for renewed recipe inspiration in our kitchen.

Chicago’s Uncommon Ground

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There’s nothing common about the two Uncommon Ground restaurants in Chicago.

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