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Winterizing a Home Checklist By Dana Benner -
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How to Layer Winter Clothes
Manage your body heat with appropriate clothing to get the most out of winter activities. -
![How to Get Rid of a Pack Rat]()
How to Get Rid of a Pack Rat
Send pack rats packing when they come a-calling. -
![Preparing Your Homestead for Winter]()
Preparing Your Homestead for Winter
Stay organized with this helpful, month-by-month planner, and you can be sure that your livestock, harvest and machinery will be safe and snug during the cold months to come.
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Basic Sourdough Bread Recipe By Staff -
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Make-Ahead Dry Meals in a Jar Recipes
Keep these make ahead dry meals in a jar recipes on your shelf for quick and tasty dinners, or give them away as thoughtful gifts. -
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Why Do Roosters Crow All Day?
Why do roosters crow all day? Learn to decode the crow and what roosters communicate when they crow, from staying away from my hens to wanting chicken treats. -
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Easy Baked Apple Recipe
Turn basic apples with sugar and spice into one of the best easy baked apple recipes to enjoy during the fall.
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Do It Yourself
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![Metal Casting at Home]()
Metal Casting at Home
Learn metal casting at home without losing your cool (or your fingers), including how to make green sand to create art or tools that don’t exist. -
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Winter Sowing Vegetables
Winter sowing vegetables means earlier harvests. Try a milk-jug greenhouse to get started outdoors. -
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Widowmaker Branch Identification
Learn widowmaker branch identification to work safely when felling trees and cutting wood in the woodlot. -
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What to Do for Chigger Bites
What is a chigger? Get rid of the maddening itch by learning what to do for chigger bites with one of these easy remedies.
Animals
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![Fishing for and How to Cook Steelhead Trout]()
Fishing for and How to Cook Steelhead Trout
Learn to fly fish for and how to cook steelhead trout recipe; grilled style. Find steelhead in the Idaho Salmon or Clearwater rivers from July to December for the fall spawn and overwintering before they return to the ocean. -
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Fur Trapping Animals Humanely
Who traps animals today? Learn about fur-trapping animals, its history, what modern trapping looks like today, and what to consider when capturing them. -
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50 Fall Deer Hunting Secrets
Enjoy your best season yet with these fall deer hunting secrets from this guide to hunting deer, turkeys, dove, pheasant, geese, and ducks. -
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What is Subsistence Hunting?
What is subsistence hunting? We are migrating towards a subsistent life, sourcing 100 percent of our food from what is provided by the backwoods. Hunting is a necessary part of this lifestyle for us on the homestead.
Farm And Garden
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Living the Gritty Lifestyle
Grit thrives on writers and editors hailing from different areas of the United States. While hunters in in the western U.S. will clamber through the Rockies for mule deer in September and October, those in the South will seek white-tailed deer in November and December. -
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How to Cure Root Rot in Soil
Soil health determines plant health. Learn how to cure root rot in soil and prevent it by adjusting soil nutrients to keep your garden healthy. -
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What Are Cover Crops?
What are cover crops? Working cover crops for gardens into your rotation schedule will boost your garden's soil while fixing nutrients for better yields. Buckwheat, mustard, oilseed radish, crimson clover, and rye are easy to incorporate. -
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Preparing Soil in Fall
Preparing soil in fall can be easy: use fallen leaves and chicken manure to prepare garden soil and get it ready for sowing next Spring.
