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The Backyard Farming Connection #24
We’re bracing for yet another winter storm here in NY. Still, our thoughts are of spring. After a weekend spent harvesting honey, and visiting a commercial maple sugar farm, we are settling in, and preparing for the growing season ahead. If you haven’t got your gardening tools ready for this spring, check out some of…
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A Bit About Learning and Honey Extraction
For most modern homesteaders, we are faced with an unending list of new skills to learn. In days past, these skills were simply passed down through generations: just as naturally as learning to walk or talk. For most of us, choosing to homestead means that we must each reinvent, relearn, and reach out for the…
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Egg Heads
Celebrate spring with a little fun this year. These egg heads are easy and fun to make and add a little green to your table or window sill. They’re simple to make with only grass seed, soil, and of course fresh eggs, and it only takes about 10 days to sprout a head of hair.…
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Farm to Table Through the Year
Today I am so excited to finally share the newest ebook brought to you by the Backyard Farming Connection! This book is a culinary and gardening journey through the 12 months of the year with growing tips, first hand growing information, recipes, and photos to inspire you in your own backyard and in your kitchen…
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Homestead Highlight: Angi
Hi, my name is Angi and we have a small, 1.5 acre homestead along the Gulf Coast of Texas. We’ve only been on this property for a little over a year and are in the process of turning it into our forever home. After 14 addresses in 20 years we’re ready for a forever home. I blog…
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Homesteading is not Simple
Last week I shared some thoughts on Doing Less by Doing More. It was one of those posts that gets written because I’m thinking through something and reflecting on our own homesteading journey. As people began responding and sharing their own comments, I was struck by a wonderful point: modern homesteading may be all about…
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Blog Roll
If you are interested in listing your blog here for others to find, please follow the rules below: You may link up to the 3 most relevant categories You must agree to the Backyard Farming Connection Code Please link to your homepage Please follow me and/or link back to me somewhere on your own blog. …
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Announcing a new ebook: Farm to Table Through the Year
Today I want to share a little project that is very near and dear to my heart. Over the last several months I have collaborated with 11 fellow writers, gardeners and cooks to create a community Farm to Table Book that I will be sharing here next week. I am a firm believer that the…
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Homestead Highlight: Kristi
Kristi, a homeschooling mom, lives in Riverside County, Southern California with her husband and two of her three children. Though she has been gardening for years, she and her family have not always sought to live closer to the land. As the homesteading movement began to pick up speed, she and her husband became more…
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Doing Less By Doing More
If you are at all engaged in the modern homesteading movement, you likely have a whole list of things you would like to try: animals you want to get, crops you want to plant, and skills you want to learn. While it is easy to get on the roller coaster of doing more, in reality,…
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