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How to Get Rid of Flies in the House Quickly

Treat & Prevent Flystrike in Sheep

Health Effects of 5 Beneficial Weeds

Staying Healthy Winter Wellness Ideas

10 Nutrition Tips to Boost Health and Flavor in Fresh Food

How to Get Rid of Flies in the House Quickly By Brandi Woolf
Treat & Prevent Flystrike in Sheep
“Flystrike” refers to an outbreak of blowflies, and can cause harm and death in livestock. Here are some on-farm tips for how to prevent and treat flystrike in sheep.
Health Effects of 5 Beneficial Weeds
Herbal weeds are nearly everywhere, and their benefits are many. Here are five of my favorite beneficial weeds that you can likely find in your own backyard!
Staying Healthy Winter Wellness Ideas
Explore these staying healthy winter wellness ideas for winter to promote good health when the weather gets cold.

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How to Build a Natural Swimming Pool

5 Tools For Clearing Overgrown Land

Cottage Cheese Recipe: How to Make Cheese from Sour Milk

How to Tan a Rabbit Hide

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Ohio Pawpaw Festival

September 12-14, 2025 • Albany, Ohio

The Ohio Pawpaw Festival is a fun-filled, educational community event celebrating one of America’s largest native tree fruits, the pawpaw (Asimina triloba). This all-weekend event highlights the rich history and future possibilities of the pawpaw through delectable food and beverages, and a full line-up of presentations and activities that cover pawpaw growing, cooking, genetics, medical use and other topics related to sustainability. Special events at the festival include competitions for the best and biggest pawpaw, a pawpaw cook-off, a best pawpaw-related work of art and the ever-popular pawpaw-eating contest.

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Make the Most Out of Compost

Making Compost Tea

Looking for a way to increase your soil fertility without breaking the bank? Explore the process of making compost tea and see how one simple act can go a long way in your garden. Discover whether or not compost tea is worth your effort, learn how to prepare aerated compost tea, and see what results occur in-ground!
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Vermicomposting Makes Sense for Homesteads

If you vermicompost on your homestead it can increase your income. By mixing vermicast into your soil, your plants will grow faster and healthier, have higher yields, and pests and diseases will be repelled. If you make enough vermicast to sell, you can charge $200 – $1,000 per cubic yard (compared to $30 for compost).

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How to Source Large-Scale Compost Inputs

What can you put in your farm compost? Holly Whitesides shares the long list of “waste” products that end up in the compost pile in her organic farm, and how she returns that compost to the soil.
Building Soil: Compost, Fertilizers, and Cover Crops

In the final module, Leah covers building and maintaining your garden beds through strategies using compost, cover crops and fertilizers. Know when to use these methods in order to give your soil the best route to improvement.

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The True Cost of Chickens   The True Cost of Chickens Kenny Coogan: [00:00:00] Francesca, how are you practicing biosecurity measures at your place? Are there basic standard operating procedures that everyone should be doing to keep their birds healthy. Franchesca Duval: Oh my goodness. Yes. This ounce of prevention is worth the pounds and pounds of cure. Aven influenza is a really tricky one because the birds don't usually live long enough to create a strong resistance to it, and so a lot of them ...

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Treat & Prevent Flystrike in Sheep

Health Effects of 5 Beneficial Weeds

Staying Healthy Winter Wellness Ideas

5 Tools For Clearing Overgrown Land

Cottage Cheese Recipe: How to Make Cheese from Sour Milk

How to Tan a Rabbit Hide

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Organic Gardening Articles

Fruit Tree Planting Tips

Growing Uncommon Fruits

Growing Peaches From Seed

How to Build a Grape Trellis Backyard System

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Off Grid Food Preservation

Golden Plum Preserves Recipe

How to Preserve Peeled Garlic

What is Sorghum Used for? Making Sorghum Syrup

Home & Gardening DIY Blogs & Ideas

DIY Automatic Chicken Feeder

Portable Cattle Feed Trough Design

Mini Chicken Coop Plans for 3-4 Hens

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Events

Ohio Pawpaw Festival

Make the Most Out of Compost

Making Compost Tea

Vermicomposting Makes Sense for Homesteads

How to Source Large-Scale Compost Inputs

Building Soil: Compost, Fertilizers, and Cover Crops

Podcasts

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