Karyn Sweet

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Your Medicinal Garden: Ten Herbs to Plant This Spring

Come spring, the nursery catalogs will be arriving in the mail.  All…

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Permaculture: The Truly Sustainable Way of Life

What is Permaculture? Permanent agriculture.  A system for feeding and caring for…

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Got (Raw) Milk?

On your way to greater self-sufficiency, you have purchased a dairy cow…

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American Farmers Today Part Three: The Lances

Read Part One: The Whitmires Read Part Two: Martin and the Mackeys…

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American Farmers Today, Part Two: Martin and the Mackeys

Read Part One: The Whitmires Christina Martin, along with business partner John…

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Strange Edibles

The vegetable garden is usually one of the first steps taken toward…

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Free Eats! Combating the Rising Cost of Food

I try really hard to keep within our food budget. I also…

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Make Your Own Fermented Drinks

After waging war on all the germs and bacteria we know are…

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Beneficial Bugs

When I first started gardening, I knew I would probably be spending…

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The Lazy Harvest: Start Saving Water and Money in Just a Few Hours with a DIY Rainwater Catchment System

Want a quick but very useful and effective homesteading project you can…

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Homesteading in Appalachia

Rugged, self-sufficient, fiercely loyal – despite stereotypes to the contrary, the Appalachian…

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American Farmers Today Part One: The Whitmires

I recently watched a movie produced by Robert Kenner called Food, Inc., a…

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