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    Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

    By Robert L. Williams Issue #19 • January/February, 1993 Many years ago, before I came to my senses and left public education for good, I was teaching on a college campus when one of the administrators...
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    A house a tornado helped build

    By Robert L. Williams Issue #16 • July/August, 1992 On May 5, 1989, tornadoes ripped through parts of three western North Carolina counties, including ours, and left piles of debris where houses, also including ours, once...
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    Animals

    Good-bye old friend

    By Lucy Shober Issue #27 • May/June, 1994 Big Poney died today. He was 34 years old and had been going down pretty rapidly over this...

    Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

    By Linda Slate Issue #119 • September/October, 2009 While searching for a large quantity (five pounds or more) feeder for my backyard flock, I kept running...

    Llamas guarding sheep? — Not such a far-fetched idea

    Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

    Goat birthing and raising kids

    Hog butchering — Using everything but the squeal

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    Farm and Garden

    Gleaning — An Old Tradition Made New

    By Daniel Furtney Issue #147 • May/June, 2014 Gleaning. You may remember the term from Sunday School or your Bible studies. In the book of Ruth, "gleaning" refers to poor people being allowed to follow a...
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    Testing Soil

    By Tom Kovach Issue #119 • September/October, 2009 Testing the soil content of a garden is very important and is quite easy to do. Soil tests are needed because some plants prefer slightly acidic soil, while...
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