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Food Security Concerns? Start A Garden!

Beginning Farmers | Crops & Gardening | Farm & Garden | Homesteading | Permaculture |
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With inflation and income concerns affecting everyone, it's a great time to start a vegetable garden to increase food security. Here's how to start.

Recipe: Scrumptious Strawberry Rhubarb Sauce 

Farm & Garden | Food | Recipes |
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This delicious strawberry rhubarb sauce makes use of summer garden harvests for a versatile topping that's great on just about anything!

The Kardashihen Flock Frolics At Hawthorn Creek Homestead

Animals | Beekeeping | Beginning Farmers | Farm & Garden | Flock Talk | Homesteading | Poultry |
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Hawthorn Creek Homestead founder Brandie Funk tells us how her flock of chickens, the Kardashihens, and bees help to uphold a family farming legacy.

Pollinator Spotlight: Getting to Know The ‘Other’ Bees

Animals | Beekeeping | Farm & Garden | Permaculture |
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Honeybees aren't the only game in town—and there's a lot you can do to help the thousands of species of native bees out there!

Chicken Chat: Losing A Pet Teaches The Value Of Life

Animals | Farm & Garden | Flock Talk | Poultry |
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Losing a chicken is a difficult experience, but one keeper shares how memories of pet chickens can remind us of how all life is precious.

How To Handle A Dog Around Your Chickens

Chicken Coops & Housing | Farm & Garden | Flock Talk | Poultry |
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Wild predators are a sure threat to your chickens, but don't forget that a neighbor's dog (or even your own) can and will kill a beloved bird, too.

How To Control Bugs On & Around Your Chickens

Animals | Chickens 101 | Farm & Garden | Health & Nutrition | Poultry |
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Bugs, who needs ’em? Certainly not chicken-keepers, who sometimes struggle to keep pesky flies and poultry parasites at bay.

Making Square Hay Bales? Careful They’re Not Too Loose

Equipment | Farm & Garden |
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Baling small square hay bales at a suitable tension makes them tight enough for easy handling. Loose bales are apt to turn into piles of loose hay.

Feed Your Chicken Flock Right With These Tips

Animals | Chickens 101 | Farm & Garden | Health & Nutrition | Poultry |
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What you feed, how you supplement and when you treat will make all the difference for your chickens. Follow these tips to feed your flock right!

Sheep Wool Has A Place In The Garden

Animals | Farm & Garden | Large Animals |
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While sheep themselves may not be welcome among planted rows, their wool makes an excellent addition to the garden as mulch, fertilizer and more!

Chicken Chat: The Chicken Lady & The Rooster

Animals | Chicken Coops & Housing | Farm & Garden | Flock Talk | Poultry |
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Why did the the rooster cross the road? For Ramsey, for an ice cream cone that led to a new home with a loving chicken lady.

A Quick, At-Home Test Of Your Soil Composition (Video)

Beginning Farmers | Crops & Gardening | Farm & Garden | Video |
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For a quick idea of your soil composition and necessary amendments, try this easy, at-home test of your three basic soil elements.

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