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How to grow Green beans

Green beans are a mainstay for growing in the garden.  They can be cultivated and will continue to bear a harvest all season long.  Sometimes also known as string beans and snap...

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How to Grow Green Peas

Peas are a delightful sweet treat from the garden.  Green peas can be cultivated and grown early in the growing season, and again in the fall when the temperatures grow cool. In this...

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Can You Raise Turkeys with Chickens?

Raising chickens is a great thing to add to your backyard, farm, homestead, and life. After raising chickens for a while, you may want to add variety to your flock.  Adding turkeys could be...

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Why do Chickens use Dust Baths? (and) How to Make a Chicken Dust Bath

All chickens take dust baths, and for good reason. Dust baths are an essential and hygenic part of a chicken’s daily, or weekly (if possible) ritual. They do this to kill mites and lice, do lessen...

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Log Home Preservation & Restoration

Log structures are being used more and more for both a primary residence and second home in the country. Many log homes/cabins are used as hunting/fishing/vacation cabins in remote areas of the U.S.,...

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A Beginners Guide to Indoor Gardening. Grow Healthy Plants Indoors All Year Long

What is Indoor Gardening? With the ongoing rise in home and land prices, more families are choosing smaller home sites, condos, or higher density/lower ground space, or even retirement style...

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We are Betsy and Ron Russon a fifth generation family on the same family farm. Betsy is an attorney who practices federal administrative and social security disability law, and Ron is a wildlife fine artist by trade. We are both homesteaders the rest of the time, with a growing family, and rich heritage of working the land, planting, growing, and raising poultry and/or livestock. It's hard work, but we both love it, and the opportunities that farming and homesteading bring for self-sufficiency and home-based reliance. Layla (also pictured) is our rescue pup who keeps us all in line.

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