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How to Build a 3-Sided Pallet Shelter for Goats
Goats have an impressive ability to ignore the expensive shelter you carefully prepared for them—and then squeeze underneath a wheelbarrow as soon as it starts raining. Thankfully, goat housing does not have to be fancy. A simple three-sided shelter can give your goats a dry place to sleep, protection from wind and rain, shade during…
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How to Use Your Garden for Homeschooling: Grades 6–8 Harvest Lessons for Every Subject
A garden can become a serious learning laboratory once children reach middle school. Students in grades 6–8 are ready to move beyond simple nature observations and begin conducting controlled experiments, analyzing data, comparing sources, building mathematical models, debating real-world issues, and designing solutions to practical problems. Harvest season provides an especially useful setting for this…
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How to Use Your Garden for Homeschooling: K–2 Harvest Lessons for Every Subject
A garden can provide far more than fresh vegetables. During harvest season, it can also become a science lab, math center, writing workshop, art studio, and even a small lesson in economics. This is one of the advantages of homeschooling: learning does not have to be separated into neat little subjects. A child who harvests…
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What to Do With Banana Peppers: 15 Easy Recipes
Introduction If you’ve ever planted banana peppers, you already know how it goes—one day you’re picking a few here and there for sandwiches, and the next your plants are overflowing with bright yellow peppers faster than you can use them. A handful of banana peppers is easy to enjoy, but a full basket (or three)…
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Pig Fencing Options: Pros, Cons, and What Actually Works for Homestead Pigs
Introduction Pigs are amazing animals to raise, but they are also one of the biggest tests of your fencing. A chicken might sneak through a gap. A goat might climb something ridiculous. But a pig? A pig will root, push, lean, lift, dig, and test every weak spot you thought was “probably fine.” When we…
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15 Vegetables You Can Still Plant in July in Zone 6
Introduction July can feel like that weird middle part of the gardening season. The tomatoes are finally doing something. The zucchini is either thriving or plotting to take over your entire yard. The weeds are thriving no matter what. And if you missed planting something earlier in the season, it is very easy to think,…
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Goats for Beginners: Everything You Need to Know Before Getting Goats
Introduction When we first bought our house, it came with a few acres, an empty barn, and a whole lot of possibilities. Naturally, my kids saw that empty barn and immediately decided it needed goats. I, on the other hand, said absolutely not. Goats felt like a big step. I had questions about fencing, feed,…
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25 Homemade Goat Toys to Keep Your Goats Happy: Cheap DIY Ideas
Goats can turn almost anything into a toy. Leave a wheelbarrow in the pasture, and they will climb inside it. Set down a bucket, and someone will immediately put it on their head. Try to repair the fence, and suddenly every goat on the property wants to “help.” Goats are naturally curious, playful animals that…
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The Horse World Isn’t Toxic—People Are: Navigating Judgment, Advice, and Social Media as a Horse Owner
You post a photo because you’re proud of your horse. Maybe it’s a picture from your first ride together. Maybe your horse is finally looking healthier after months of work. Maybe you simply caught a sweet moment and wanted to share it with people who understand how much horses mean to you. Within minutes, strangers…
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What Nobody Tells You Before You Get Your First Horse
You can research feed, fencing, farriers, vet bills, blankets, tack, and boarding barns for months before you get your first horse. But there is one part of horse ownership almost nobody prepares you for: The moment you get your first horse, everyone suddenly becomes an expert on your horse. Not just trainers. Not just vets.…
