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“Show Me Your Chickens”
I checked my phone again. Still nothing from my 13-year-old granddaughter, Noelle. Why won’t she return my text messages? I wondered. Noelle—I called her Noe—was my youngest grandchild. From the moment I laid eyes on her as a newborn and she gazed b
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Therapeutic Horses of Saratoga, New York
As a child, Chris Barnes always wanted to own a horse. “I entered so many essay contests trying to win a horse!” she says. Today, after retiring from the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, she volunteers with Therapeutic Horses
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Killdeer, Hawk & Meadowlark
There was always work to be done on the farm: swathing hay in summer, harvesting in fall, feeding cows in winter. Spring was when my husband, Milton, and I planted our fields with wheat. That meant moving the equipment, hooking up the seeder to the t

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