How To Preserve Garlic

“With a huge harvest of hard neck garlic and no possible way to use it all before it began sprouting, I decided to figure out a better way

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Popular Duck Breeds

“Regardless of which breed (or breeds) of duck you choose to raise, you will discover the joy and satisfaction of keeping an extremely hardy, good-natured and productive type

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How To Eliminate The Cost Of Chicken Feed

“I used to sell my chickens for almost exactly the same price I paid for feed. And the story for the eggs was pretty much the same. This

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Scent-sational Projects With Lavender

“Tempted to do something with the lavender growing in your yard? Letting such a fragrant herb go to waste would be… well, a waste! Gathering, drying and using

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Braiding Garlic

“Jamey pulled our garlic the other day. We found that the right time to pull it is when some of the leaves/stems are turning brown, while most are

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66 Things You Can Grow In Containers

“Growing your own food is exciting, not only because you get to see things grow from nothing into ready-to-eat fruits and veggies, but you also don’t have to

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How Much To Plant To Supply A Years Worth Of Food

“Do you know how much your family eats in a year’s time? As a farmer’s wife, I am keenly aware of how much meat, poultry, eggs, honey and

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Weave Traditional Chair Seats

“Visit any antique or second-hand furniture store and you’ll find great old chairs that are bargain priced because their woven seats have worn out. In fact, any chair

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Milling Flour At Home Using A Blender

“So, I’ve just discovered something amazing. You can mill flour. At home. In your blender. For years I’ve known that buying flour pre-ground in the store as opposed

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Acorn Recipes

“Our family had a wonderfully wild foods infused Thanksgiving this year that was especially rich in roasted Acorns and White Fir, as Oak and Fir trees are common

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Make Your Own Italian Sausage

“Making your own fresh Italian sausage is seriously easy. If you can make meatballs or meatloaf… then you can make your own Italian sausage. Your homemade Italian sausage

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Mowing With A Scythe

“I’ve used a number of different scythes over the years – most were borrowed and used mainly to cut vegetation in places where I couldn’t maneuver the tractor

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How To Make A Survival Bracelet

“Tanner has a survival bracelet that he wears daily, but being an Eagle Scout once upon a time, he was keen to make his own. And when this

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10 Reasons Why Raising Ducks Might Be Better Than Chickens

“Over the last few years, keeping chickens has been on the upswing. Whether it’s due to families wanting to know where their food is coming from, a desire

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How To Build A Small Game Survival Snare

“I practice and learn survival skills not because I need them on a daily basis, but rather for the one day when I must use them to stay

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Creating A Personal Seedbank

You have probably heard of seed saving, where you save a plant’s seeds or tubers at the end of a growing season to serve as the seed source

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10 Things To Consider When Living Off The Land And How Much Money Will It Cost

“Do you hold a dream to live off of the land and experience the joy of sustainable living? There really are countless things to consider when living off

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Growing Yacon

“Easy to grow and store, high-yielding, super nutritious and crunchy like an apple, yacon (pronounced ya-kon) is one of the many “new” vegetables coming to us from South

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What Your Weeds Can Tell You About Your Soil

“What do you do when you see a weed in the garden? Jump in and frantically hack away with a hoe? Throw up your hands in despair? Learn

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Greenhouses Made With Salvaged Windows

“Think it’s too early to thinking about and planning for spring? Never! As a matter of fact, now is the perfect time to begin planning your yard and

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