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DIY Christmas Gifts You Can Make for (or With) Your Kids!

  • December 11, 2020
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When we first announced to our kids that we would be making handmade gifts for each other for Christmas this year, the reactions were less than enthusiastic. Would Santa approve…
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The Farm Calendar

  • December 11, 2019
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Last year about this time I wrote out a Farm Calendar with all the tasks for all of the animals and buildings and equipment we have to accomplish in each…
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Winter-Proof Chicken Waterer

  • November 13, 2019
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As soon as the temps drop below freezing, we Minnesota farmers break out the winter gear. My least favorite contraption is the chicken waterer. In the summer, I hook a…
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Managed Intensive Rotational Grazing for Sheep

  • December 27, 2016
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Managed Intensive Rotational Grazing. That’s a mouthful. MIRG for short. MIRG is a system of pasturing animals to maximize pasture growth. Proponents call it farming grass. Rotational grazing is nothing new.…
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Building a Top Bar Hive

  • May 23, 2016
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We’re trying a new style of beehive this year called a top-bar hive. It’s new to us and most American beekeepers but is actually a very old style. It predates the…
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Queening the hives

  • June 3, 2015
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Towards the end of last summer we discovered one of our two bee hives was vacant, a victim of Colony Collapse Disorder. We pulled frames with honey and added them…
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