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In Praise of the Older Hen

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The older hen in your flock might be laying less, but don’t be too quick to sell or cull. Commercial chickens are typically called at around two years because their sole purpose is to lay eggs. Feed costs begin to … Continue reading

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The Year Round Garden

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A summer garden can certainly provide you with lots of fresh food. It’s fairly easy to grow food when the weather is warm and the days are long. But if you expand your horizons a bit, you can utilize that … Continue reading

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The Pancake Patch

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Gene Logsdon, one of my favorite gardening/farming authors, wrote a book in 1977 titled “Small-Scale Grain Growing.” In it, he talked about the common gardener competitions to have the best, biggest, earliest or most unusual produce in the neighborhood. Gene … Continue reading

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