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Quick Craft: Tiered Serving Tray

Homesteading
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Do you have mismatched dishes you’re ready to toss? Upcycle them into a unique and funky serving tray.

Quick Craft: Teacup Bird Feeder

Homesteading
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Add quaintness to your garden and keep your feathered friends well-fed with this craft that can be made in a matter of minutes.

American Goldfinches

Crops & Gardening | Farm Management |
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When the perennial borders do well, so do the American goldfinches. This year is no exception.

Recipe: Colorful Rice Salad

Urban Farming
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Photo by Judith Hausman Bright nasturtium flowers add an extra dose of color to this rice salad. Even though the sun is setting earlier, the temperature of the water is cooling, and some 2012 garden favorites are already a memory, there’s still a riot of color in the garden. We’re picking pink and yellow tomatoes, […]

Quick Craft: Patchwork Placemats

Homesteading
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Use leftover fabric scraps to make quilt-inspired placemats.

Quick Craft: Wine-barrel Planter

Homesteading
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Repurpose unusable barrels into garden containers to accent your farm landscape.

Strawberries and Spanish Mustangs

Urban Farming
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Photo by Audrey Pavia Milagro and Rio, the strawberry killers. Early last summer, my roommate Lisa planted a garden. Using four of the large terra cotta pots that were sitting empty on my patio, she started peppers, tomatoes and strawberries. She diligently watered the seedlings every day and, before long, the bright California sun brought […]

Quick Craft: Jewelry Tree

Homesteading
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Bring the outdoors in with this craft that’s mingles form and function.

Flat, or Saturn, Peaches

Urban Farming
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Flat peaches, or Saturn peaches, are becoming more popular, but not for reasons you might think.

Praying Mantises in the Garden

Crops & Gardening
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In May, I purchased a praying-mantis egg case from a local nursery and put it out into the garden. A few weeks later, the eggs hatched, and initially, several hundred baby praying mantises were clinging to my plants.

Make Money with Strawberries

Crops & Gardening | Farm Management |
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Minimize labor costs and maximize your strawberry patch's place on the farm by starting a strawberry U-pick operation.

Homemade Cheese Crackers

Homesteading
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In our quest to "cook out of the processed box” in our farmstead kitchen, we’re always aiming to buy one less item off the grocery shelf and instead make a better-quality and typically more frugal version with our pantry staples.

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