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How to start your own backyard flock

Porch.com recently asked me to write something for them. The email sent looked like this. ” I’m Cassandra from Porch.com. I’m reaching out to you because I’m creating the article “Homesteading 101: Q&A With the Experts” 🏡🐣🍅🍏. We are doing this to help...
The Case for Buying Local

The Case for Buying Local

We gratefully have so many options in this country.  We’re confronted daily with what to buy, where to buy and how to buy everything from electronics to vegetables.  And we vote with our dollars with every purchase.  With so much to choose from, it can be...
Winter 2014

Winter 2014

Winter has hit us hard this year.  It is cold, sub zero temperatures in January, unusually cold for Maryland.  All the greens in the hoophouse have diminished; seedlings from late Fall plantings have perished.  My friend found a chicken, frozen to death, in the coop...