From the January/February 2012 issue:
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Features
Start Your Own Seeds
Learn about the benefits of saving seeds – and how to do it – for your next garden.
Grow the Best Stone Fruit
Learn how to get the most from peach, apricot, plum and cherry trees.
Move Your ... Mule
Donkey and mule enthusiasts point to the animals' intelligence and pleasing personalities as reasons to add an ass.
Getting Started With Chickens
Cancer survival spurs family's first poultry project.
Wild About Mushrooms
Harvest exquisite gourmet mushrooms – without a truffle-hunting sow.
Bring the Outdoors in to Fight Winter Blahs!
Spruce up the dreary chilly months with a little cold-hardy color.
History's Horses
Take a ride on some of the world's oldest mares and gelding.
Departments
Our View: International Homesteading Month
From Carrier's Corner:
Delivering at the Mill
Developing a Work Ethic
Mail Call: January-February 2012
Taste of Country Life; Beautiful Barns; Identify That Tool; Permission Needed; Preserving the Starke Round Barn; Recipe Creation
Looking Back: Community to the Rescue
Friends and neighbors band together to help a farmer in need.
Quiz GRIT: Ligers and Tigons and Mules, Oh My!
Why interspecies hybrids have trouble with fertility.
From Grit Gazette:
Hometown Buzz
Sheep Association Announces Initiative; Challenge Issued to FFA Convention; January Conference Spotlights Sustaining Family Farms; Celebrate Cowboy Poetry; Annual Nebraska MarketPlace Set
Native Plants Draw Butterflies
Texas gardener begins nursery and butterfly house to show off the state's perennials.
Innovative Agriculture in Florida
Unique program offers more on sustainable agriculture and educational programs to farmers around the world.
Digital Harvests
Farmers grow offline, then connect with a new audience online as the use of websites and social media gain ground in agriculture.
Comfort Foods: Kitchen Gems
Antique cookbooks take us back to a time and place where we'll always find comfort.
American Heirlooms: Keeping Things Green
An ancient plant with staying power, spinach will keep your salad fresh all summer long.
Recipe Box: Readers Make Our Recipe Box
GRIT's community of talented cooks keeps the requests and responses flowing.
Country Tech: Seed Planters for Your Patch
New old-style walk-behind seeders will save on labor and seed.
In the Shop: Build an Easy Hoop House
Extend your growing season and produce more food, all for less than $1,000.