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Rebar Redo

Equipment
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In my last blog, I described bending rebar for garden arches and a pole bean arbor. Working in the garden suggested another use for a length of rebar. I don’t know about you, but when I am working with a spade, or any other long-handled tool for that matter, it always seems to end up […]

Choosing the Right Compact Backhoe

Equipment
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Cub Cadet Yanmar product manager Roger Gifford offers tips on evaluating size, horsepower, usability, features and design to help you find the right compact backhoe for your needs.

Garden Trouble

Crops & Gardening
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The facts are that gardening is often unrewarding, and plant death and failure is actually far more common than success.

Waiting on Tomatoes

Crops & Gardening
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It was a very wet, cool spring here and almost every gardener I know is complaining about fungal diseases on their tomatoes. So far I’ve escaped them.

Tools for Tight Spaces

Equipment
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Equipment for making hay, doing general farm work and managing manure are available for even the smallest farms.

What to Plant Now

Crops & Gardening
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Fall is the perfect time to refresh your garden and keep growing well into winter.

The Trouble with Turkeys, Part 1

Homesteading
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After three years of raising our own broiler chickens for the table, we decided to make the big (and I mean big) leap to turkeys this year.

Trombette and Melanzane

Crops & Gardening
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More of my favorite Italian vegetables are starting to produce nicely in the garden these days.

Testaieu

Crops & Gardening
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This is the season full of local festivals where the locals gather and all eat together under big tents.

Postcard from Italy

Homesteading
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I’m writing this from Venezia—or Venice as it’s known in English.

Leaves of Green

Homesteading
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Create a simple, sand-cast birdbath from big leaves found in your own garden.

Rebar Arbor

Equipment
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If you think rebar is strictly for use in concrete, think again.

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