Disturbing National Animal Identification talk now spreading to vegetables in your garden

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Because of lots of public outcry, the NAIS, a government "wonderchild," sponsored largely by large agribusiness type animal/poultry growers, apparently shriveled and came to a standstill last year. The NAIS is basically an animal/poultry...

Q and A: planting early trees and saving tomato seeds

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Planting early trees I was excited to get the e-mail that my new Apple Trees will be shipping this week until I realized that there is no way all of our snow will be gone...

David had fun with one of our pumpkins

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We have been feeding all of our animals lots of our two tons of pumpkins. They love them, from chickens to the pigs, goats, and cattle. But we did save some of the nicest...

Happy Thanksgiving to all of our extended BHM family!

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I hope the holiday brings joy and plenty of good homestead eats. Thanksgiving should also inspire us to count our many blessings. And even those of you who are having a difficult time right...

We’re about done planting — and replanting.

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After the torrential rains, not only did our gardens get soggy but a few spots had bad washouts, little mini canyons here and there. And yes, they did wash out quite a few seeds...