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A Potager at Your Door

Crops & Gardening
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Create a European style kitchen garden; it's one-stop shopping where you can harvest your meals as well as a gorgeous bouquet for the table.

Useful (But Ugly?) Trellises

Crops & Gardening
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I use the river bamboo canes to build several trellises in the garden every year, but I’ll admit that I’m not crazy for how the trellises look when I first build them.

Give Herbal Syrups As Gifts!

Homesteading
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Make your own herbal syrup "boutique" food gifts.

Dividing Spring’s Bounty

Crops & Gardening
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I’ve been busy hammering in tomato stakes in preparation of planting time, mulching the perennial and shrub beds, watching the radish grow, and dividing things for friends and neighbors.

Desert Discoveries, Part 2: What Grows on Trees

Homesteading
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As a hobby farmer, I know those neat piles of apples at the supermarket grew on trees somewhere, maybe even here in the apple capitol, Washington state, and not a zillion miles away in New Zealand.

Tools of the Trade: Alternative Water-well Pumps

Equipment
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Readily available water is a luxury many of us take for granted on the farm. Pumps are the unsung heroes of our watering systems, be it for household needs, for irrigation purposes or for livestock drinking-water.

Old-country Organic: Italian Organic Farmers

Farm Management
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Learn how small-scale farming and organic farming has always been part of Italy’s culture and what we can learn from their way of life.

Making My Workbench

Equipment
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I like simple things, and the basic design of my workbench is simple and easily adapted.

Ain’t Spring Great!

Crops & Gardening
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Well, we’ve arrived at that moment finally. A bit late this year, but Spring is finally here.

Edible Nettle (And Other Uses)

Crops & Gardening
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It’s high season now for harvesting nettles here.

Lovely Things Are Blooming

Crops & Gardening
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I’ve got some lovely things blooming in the garden right now.

Desert Discoveries, Part 1: Escaping the Farm

Homesteading
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Don’t get me wrong – I love our farm. But it’s been too long since my family and I escaped the animal feeding, dog walking, manure scooping, garden tending, house cleaning, fence fixing, bill paying, and other duties that go with living in the same place day after day.

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