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10 Resolutions for a Greener New Year

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It’s never too late to commit to sustainability around your home and farm. Here are ways you can help save the planet this year.

How Fresh Is the Air in Your Home?

Farm Management | Homesteading | Urban Farming |
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Cozy winter hours spent indoors is a prime opportunity to take stock of your indoor air quality. Here's how to test for an remediate some common indoor pollutants.

Indoor Gardening: 8 Edibles You Can Grow Indoors This Winter

Crops & Gardening | Urban Farming |
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Don’t give up on gardening just because it’s cold outside. Try indoor gardening. Grow these fruits and vegetables inside.

6 Ways to Avoid Frostbite in Your Chickens

Animals | Poultry | Urban Farming |
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If you live in an area with harsh winters, follow these common-sense guidelines to keep your chickens safe from frostbite.

6 Tips to Prepare Your Goats for Winter

Animals | Large Animals | Urban Farming |
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Your herd needs a little TLC as temperatures drop. Here are tips on shelter, food, water and general health to keep your goats well through the winter.

Take Your Chicken for a Walk: 7 Chicken-Themed Items

Animals | Homesteading | News | Poultry | Urban Farming |
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A chicken harness is among the items we found on the web. Others include kitchenware, a treat holder and an urban-chicken starter kit.

Make a Raised Garden Bed in 2 to 3 Hours

Crops & Gardening | Homesteading | Urban Farming |
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Follow our instructions to build a simple raised garden bed that you can have ready for spring as well as fall gardening.

Winterize Your Chicken Waterer: From Buy to DIY

Animals | Poultry | Urban Farming |
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Water is important to your flock—make sure your waterer resists freezing during decreasing temperatures in winter.

5 Methods of Food Preservation That Bypass Canning

Homesteading | Urban Farming |
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You work hard in the garden, so you should do all you can to prevent your harvest from going to waste. Keep it fresh with these tips on food preservation that bypass canning.

7 Books Aimed at Helping Hobby Farmers

Animals | Beginning Farmers | Crops & Gardening | Farm Management | Homesteading | Poultry | Urban Farming |
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These selections cover areas including chickens, vegetable crops, container gardening, women hobby farmers, homesteading and aquaponics.

Raising Silkworms Is Small-Scale Farming With Potentially Big Yields

Farm Management | Homesteading | Urban Farming |
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Each cocoon produced by silkworms can produce an unbroken strand of silk that stretches to a mile and a half. Learn more about sericulture.

Poultry Breed Profiles: Meet the Welsummer

Animals | Breeds | Poultry | Urban Farming |
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The Welsummer, a breed that originated in the Netherlands, has been a breakfast-cereal mascot and is known for its earth-tone eggs.

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