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8/12/2009 11:01:00 AM
Make a fresh mozzarella recipe in 30 minutes.
8/12/2009 10:47:33 AM
These unique, niche market animals start to make inroads
8/10/2009 4:11:31 PM
Learn which commercial mousetraps worked in our tests.
7/31/2009 2:11:30 PM
Michelle works to rescue guinea fowl keets from sudden illness.
6/25/2009 1:19:27 PM
Robyn creates a great home for birds of all kinds and gets her hens to lay more eggs.
5/14/2009 5:23:56 PM
Interior design incorporates special rural touches on the farm.
4/14/2009 8:57:10 AM
Poultry are an all-natural, animated insecticide.
4/10/2009 4:05:34 PM
This wonderful species dines on garden slugs and lays delicious eggs.
4/7/2009 4:48:20 PM
KC has an I Love Where I Work Moment when baby chicks hatch nearby.
4/7/2009 1:22:23 PM
With livestock, adding a slight shock with electric fencing might be the best way to go.
4/6/2009 5:19:02 PM
Doug covers the beekeeping equipment he will be using this year.
4/1/2009 2:53:27 PM
Michiganders, Sherry & Russ Sutherby, are living the dream – on their 40 acres of paradise – Russ-Stick Acres.
12/15/2008 3:56:29 PM
Winter offers Deb a time to think and plan for new heirloom breeds and heirloom seeds.
12/11/2008 12:29:40 PM
These four-legged friends will keep your flocks safe from predators.
11/4/2008 5:40:20 PM
Crazy fall weather, guineas, and the beginning of the homesteading story.
9/8/2008 4:29:36 PM
Neighborliness and an escaped guinea make for an exciting night.
7/30/2008 3:04:55 PM
Choosing a simplified life does not lengthen the day or make the world instantly bend your way. In fact, as we contemplate why the government doesn’t allow a private citizen to install their own solar-energy system and fails to regulate the excessive installation fees… we feel the ugly shadow of discouragement creep over us.
1/1/2008 12:00:00 AM
Washington man finds niche shearing alpacas.
1/1/2008 12:00:00 AM
A strong demand for exotic animal fiber has created a market for everything from yak to buffalo to musk ox hair.
1/1/2008 12:00:00 AM
Tennessee educators find fiber, fun and full-time fascination on the farm.
1/1/2008 12:00:00 AM
These friendly, inquisitive animals are more than the perfect pet.
1/1/2008 12:00:00 AM
You've gotten to the point where you can differentiate a camelid from a cow, but how do you tell an alpaca from a llama?
1/1/2008 12:00:00 AM
Llamas are the working class of South American camelids.
1/1/2008 12:00:00 AM
Michigan farm hooks visitors with reindeer and sleigh rides.
1/1/2007 12:00:00 AM
Caring for your llamas and alpacas
1/1/2007 12:00:00 AM
Vaccinations used in llamas, deworming of llamas, and llama health programs.
11/1/2006 12:00:00 AM
While many of us prefer to think that our meat grows on trees, anyone who raises animals on a farm eventually has to face the facts: Species eat other species. And that pretty much includes us.
9/1/2006 12:00:00 AM
One farmer's misadventures in livestock agriculture might be a word to the wise: Be careful what you yearn for.
9/1/2006 12:00:00 AM
Espanola, New Mexico – You have to be careful when you walk in to the Country Farm Supply feed store on the main street here. Maybe you only stopped by for a bag of hen scratch – but you could end up going home with a donkey.
9/1/2006 12:00:00 AM
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is embarking upon a new program that seeks to have every single livestock animal in the United States identified, tagged and possibly implanted with a radio chip. The highly controversial National Animal Identification System (NAIS) would require anyone who owns even one livestock animal - such as a pigeon, rabbit, chicken or horse - to register that animal and its location in a federal database.
9/1/2006 12:00:00 AM
Feed Store Franchise
9/1/2006 12:00:00 AM
Life Lessons Learned at the Feed Store