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Sweet Heat: Make Jam Using Hot Peppers & Peaches

Homesteading | Recipes |
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The tiny aji charapitas peppers can be intense, but fresh ripe peaches soften that jolt for a jam that's just right. Here's how to make it.

Get to Know the Medicinal Benefits of Strawberry Leaf

Crops & Gardening | Homesteading |
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Strawberry leaf has traditional uses to help the digestive, respiratory, nervous and female reproductive systems, although it does carry some controversy.

Late-season Butterfly Flowers for Your Garden

Crops & Gardening
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Late-season butterfly flowers are critical to the health of these important pollinators. The nectar they provide helps the insects survive the winter. Here are some great plants for the job.

Meet the Hairy Horticulturist—and the Tiny Cucamelon

Crops & Gardening | Homesteading |
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The cucamelon is an itty bitty vegetable that looks like a melon and tastes like a zesty cucumber. We get the facts from an avid grower we found on Instagram.

Make Your Apple Harvest Easier & Fun: Have a Hayride

Crops & Gardening | Equipment |
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This fall, put your hay wagon to good use and invite friends and family to participate in a fun (and surprisingly practical) apple harvest hayride.

Tips on Caring for Your Lawn in the Fall

Homesteading | News | Urban Farming |
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Lawns have different problems this time of year depending on grass type and region. Here are problems and ways to keep your lawn greener longer.

How To Get Your Garden Ready For Winter

Crops & Gardening
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With an autumnal chill sneaking into the air, it's time for cool-weather planting and chores that will give your garden a head start next spring.

5 Ways Ironweed Can Improve Your Health

Crops & Gardening
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This fall-blooming perennial plant is more than a pretty pasture flower. Ironweed has a long history of medicinal use. Here are some.

Black Radish: A Delicious Vegetable With Healing Powers

Crops & Gardening | Homesteading |
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Black radish is a food, like other radishes, but it also has numerous healing properties used for centuries that researchers are now verifying.

Use Floating Row Cover to Protect Crops This Fall

Beginning Farmers | Crops & Gardening |
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You can use floating row cover to protect your crops from the coming colder temperatures. Here are several ways and their benefits.

Humanely Rid Your Property of Nuisance Wild Animals

Farm Management
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Try these responsible, humane methods to evict raccoons, skunks, groundhogs and other nuisance wild animals nesting a little too close to your home.

Tree Removal: It Pays to DIY—Until It Doesn’t

Equipment | Farm Management | Homesteading |
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A DIY attitude can carry hobby farmers a long way, but for projects such as tree removal, hiring a professional can save a lot of time and effort.

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