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Make Homemade Bread Without The Mess

Homesteading
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If the hassle of kitchen clean-up is keeping you from making your own bread, you need to try this method.

The Difference Between Organic and Farm Raised

Animals | Farm Management |
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With a lot of hype about food labels and farming practices, it's important to know the truth about the meat you're buying and understand the labels you can use on your own farm products.

New York City’s Underground Garden

News | Urban Farming |
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Horse Farm Management

Animals | Farm Management | Large Animals |
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If horses are in your blood and a horse farm is on your mind, educate yourself about farm management before making it a hobby or a career.

One Perfect Apple

Crops & Gardening
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Despite getting a late start on planting, our four new columnar apple trees are doing quite well.

The Fascinating Micah Rood Apple

Crops & Gardening
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Was this apple tree cursed or was it just a wild variety with haunting characteristics? We might never know.

Burning Question: When Is “Good Enough” Good?

Beginning Farmers
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As farmers, we’re all doing our part to make the food system better, but we’re by no means perfect. So when is it OK to be content in your actions and when should you strive for more?

Is The Pawpaw Making A Comeback?

Crops & Gardening | News |
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This North American native fruit might not have ever gone away for some, but it's making a big comeback.

Is It OK To Mate A Chicken With Its Offspring?

Poultry | Urban Farming |
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Rachael Hurd Anger One reader asked if he could breed his rooster with the rooster’s offspring, and the short answer is yes, but only in the short term. In livestock husbandry, what we’d usually call inbreeding is termed linebreeding. This method is how breeders dilute a variety of possible characteristics to produce the very best-looking […]

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