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How to Make a Rustic Egg Basket

Homesteading
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Transport your eggs (or spinach or tomatoes) from the farm to the kitchen with this basket made from farm-based materials.

How to Make a Twig Trug

Homesteading
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Clean up the twigs from your farm property and put them to use in this garden-tool carrier.

How to Make a Garlic Basket

Homesteading
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Keep garlic close at hand on the kitchen counter with a small, loosely woven container.

Poison Ivy: Facts About How It Affects Humans & Animals

Animals | Crops & Gardening |
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I've never had the bad skin reaction to poison ivy, but I'm a goat, so I'm not susceptible to it. Humans are, however. Here's what causes it and how to avoid it.

Rio and Jeremy

Urban Farming
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Photo by Audrey Pavia Jeremy used to be Rio’s biggest advocate. Rio is renowned among all my horse friends as a pain in the butt. He wants to play 24/7, and that means he’s always trying to put anything he can in his mouth: his lead rope, the halter, you hand, your hat, your clothes, […]

Datterini Tomatoes

Urban Farming
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Tomato-growing advice for those who love datterinis.

Container Garden Obscurity

Crops & Gardening
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In addition to getting the veggie garden planted, I've also filled my patio containers with a mixture of herbs, tropicals, succulents and annuals.

Recipe: Spring Shrimp with Snow Peas and Asparagus

Urban Farming
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Photo by Judith Hausman Asparagus and snow peas look beautiful (and delicious!) against pink shrimp. Our garden group had preferred sugar snap peas hands down, but as our first vines started to flower lavender and purple, we realized that those wily yellow and purple snow peas had gotten themselves planted somehow. No matter — the […]

A Tool for Tilling

Equipment
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One of the joys of my job as a farm-machinery writer is getting to try out tools. It’s especially fun when the tool turns out to do the job it was promoted to do.

Wild (and Useful!) Herbs

Crops & Gardening | Homesteading |
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Mom once portrayed a mixed-blood Ojibwe-French lady called Susanne Bouche when working at the Minnesota Historical Society. One of the things Susanne did was gather wild plants for food and medicine. Mom loved that part!

Waiting on Babies

Urban Farming
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Photo by Audrey Pavia Betty Jo is one of the hens sitting on a clutch of eggs in my coop. Baby Jo and Betty Jo are sitting on a clutch they laid in the coop. They take turns, so I’m assuming the clutch has eggs laid by both hens. When the eggs hatch, it will […]

Slow Money: Growing Farm Businesses from the Ground Up

Beginning Farmers
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Only three years into the movement, Slow Money has provided startup capital and loans to farmers across the U.S., and their opportunities continue to grow.

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