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    Publisher’s Note – Issue #179 Jan/Feb/Mar 2020

    Animals

    Fermenting Chicken Feed

    By Melissa Souza Issue #174 • November/December, 2018 On our homestead, we eat yogurt, kombucha (fermented tea), sauerkraut, and kimchi to add probiotics to our diet....

    Are aliens stealing our honeybees?

    By John Silveira Issue #106 • July/August, 2007 What would happen if all the honeybees disappeared? According to some pundits we'd see a collapse in much...

    Bovine basics for beginners

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    Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

    Build a poultry killing cone

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    Cut your grocery bill in half

    7 Mistakes of food storage

    Lessons learned from an ice storm

    Farm and Garden

    Fruit Trees

    <!-- Fruit trees By Alice B. Yeager Photos by James O. Yeager -->By Alice B. Yeager Fall winds down with the ripening of a Japanese persimmon known as the Fuyugaki variety. Issue #104 • March/April, 2007 There's not one of us who...
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    Grow Open-Pollinated Tomatoes

    By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #166 • July/August, 2017 Nearly all of us homesteaders grow tomatoes in our gardens. Tomatoes are hugely valuable as a homestead crop. After all, they give us a wide variety of products. Many...
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