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Loving Life

Homesteading
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I wanted to write about something, anything else, but all I could think about last night, and again this morning, was Chris, and the final words on his Facebook page: "I love life.”

Soil Contamination: A Farm Buyer’s Primer

Crops & Gardening | Farm Management |
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Before you purchase a property, be sure you know what’s in the soil. Everything from roadside pollution to illegal-drug contamination can affect your farm’s usability.

Got a Screwdriver?

Equipment
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A good set of Craftsman screwdrivers was one of the first additions to my tool chest when my wife and I bought our first house.

Gotta Love That Internet

Equipment
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Whatever did we do before we had the World Wide Web?

Garden Fortune

Crops & Gardening
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What a superb year for the garden!

Potato Hunt

Homesteading
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It feels a lot like the dyed Easter Egg hunts I loved as a kid, and staged for our daughter when she was little.

Figs and Ferragosto

Crops & Gardening
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It’s fig-picking time here in Italy, and I get a significant amount of my daily snacks from the fig trees that are all over the place here.

Pullets in Pittsburgh

Crops & Gardening
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The ladies have finally arrived! We have 6 happy, young hens - and one happy little boy.

Got a Chainsaw? Get a File, and Keep It Clean!

Equipment
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My brother Ed doesn’t fool around when it comes to the farmstead where he and his family spend free weekends.

Wild Koi

Crops & Gardening
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The coastal mountains around here are famous for their vast network of hiking trails.

For the Love of Flowers…

Crops & Gardening
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My perennial borders are finally coming into their own.

Turkeys, Part 2: Turkeys are Cool

Homesteading
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I had planned to call this blog "The Trouble with Turkeys, Part 2," but I changed my mind for two reasons.

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