May/June 2022

Grit

Rural American Know-How

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Use It Up, Wear It Out
As I’ve mentioned in these pages before, I am, by inclination and experience, a textile artist. I’ve collected many yards of fabric over the years as my sewing ambitions have outstripped my time to sew. When a good friend learned how to quilt, she in
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CAITLIN WILSON, Lead Editor OSCAR H. WILL III, Editor at Large MARISSA AMES, Editorial Director REBECCA MARTIN, Technical Editor JEAN TELLER, Group Editor, Special Content Team LANDON HALL, Group Editor, Collectibles CARLA TILGHMAN, Managing Editor A
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Reader Tips From Rural America
At 75 years old, I now only use my bike in the garden to save my back. JOSEPH CECCO ELYSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA Joseph, we’re thrilled you’ve found a tillage solution that works well for you! Readers, to learn how to build your own garden tiller from an o
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Increase Your Irrigation Options With A Water Utility Trailer
Owning a piece of Montana real estate has been our family’s dream for years. Finally, in 2020, we bought 11 acres of much-neglected pasture on which to build our dream home and hobby farm. The property came without irrigation rights, but what attract
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Catching Up
The “Mother Earth News and Friends” podcast is produced by our sister publication, Mother Earth News. Explore these episodes and more at www.MotherEarthNews.com/Podcast, or wherever you listen to podcasts. By Melinda R. Cordell Charles Darwin, who wa
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Turkey On Patrol
Some of us have dogs. Others have turkeys. We had a turkey who thought he was a dog. After reading “Dogs with Jobs” (Our View, March/April 2022), I thought you might like to hear about Bubby. We live on a small “city farm” with a large garden and a c
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Soup For Any Season
Until recently, soup wasn’t a part of our weekly family menu. We had chicken soup or vegetable soup now and again, but we didn’t have much variety — until my brother began growing tomatoes in his garden. A few years ago, he started bringing a lot of
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Friendly Geese for Backyard Flocks
Contrary to popular belief, not all geese are aggressive. Several breeds are actually known for their calm dispositions, and if raised by humans from a young age, many geese will become personable and loyal companions. Whether you’re looking to get g
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Small-space Container Herb Gardens
Container herb gardening is all about the versatility to grow herbs wherever you have room: on a balcony, a patio, a rooftop, or the steps to your porch. It can be as simple as a planter outside your kitchen door, a hanging basket within reach to har
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Countryside Makes Homesteading Accessible To Everyone
In every issue of COUNTRYSIDE, learn to grow and preserve the most nutritious food for you and your family; raise healthy animals from pasture to plate; cook simply and naturally; build it yourself and take pride in your handiwork; treat ailments nat
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Protect Your Rural Land with Conservation Easements
Do you want to protect the wide-open spaces in the mountains, valleys, and streams of our country, where we live, farm, hike, bike, bird, fish, hunt, and experience a host of other outdoor activities? Then consider protecting your property in perpetu
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Bridging The Gap
Several decades ago, when my wife, Melody, and I had corporate careers, we dreamt of a peaceful retirement property with streams, ponds, and wildlife. Before 1900, when North America was largely rural, folks enjoyed visiting their local town for shop
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Summer’s Meadow Muses
Every season seems to have a particular sign to announce its arrival, and we country folk eagerly watch for an indication of each seasonal change. Tapped maple trees, blooming gardens, and abundant pumpkin patches each tell you which season is pushin
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Grow More With A GARDEN HANDBOOK
I failed to document my horticultural pursuits when I began gardening full-time. I thought I was way too busy to bother with it. Besides, since I’d fully embraced raising our farm’s organic herbs and vegetables, I was certain I’d remember essential d
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Grilled To perfection
Grilling is a method of quickly cooking food over high, dry heat. This technique shares many similarities with barbecuing and smoking. Although backyard cooks often choose to grill meat, you can also grill vegetables or almost any other type of food.
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DIY Market Caddy
When our daughter, Hanne, was transitioning from pork farming to vegetable and flower farming, she needed easily transportable, attractive, wooden display caddies to hold water-filled, quart jars of flowers at her farmers market stand. While she assi
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‘BERRY’ Sweet Rewards
At least one major member of the Rubus genus — blackberry, raspberry, dewberry, and wineberry — lives in every U.S. state. We annually have a goal to pick, can, and freeze 10 gallons of these berries borne by shrubs in the rose family. Our harvest go
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NO-WASTE Cheesemaking
Once upon a time, all across the world, self-sufficient peasants were quietly making a living among their animals and plants. Their lives may not have been the stuff of legends, and we don’t have a thorough record of their daily doings … but how I wi
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With practical principles and the incisive background information you’ll need to start your vertical vegetable garden, author Amy Andrychowicz shows you how to build nearly two dozen growing structures, including trellises, arbors, archways, wall poc
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Kidding Season Without A Vet
Kidding is an anticipated and awe-filled time of year in my goat shed. Each year, I look forward to a riotous new crop of gamboling kids. I keep Myotonic goats for brush control and for the sheer joy of watching them be goats. Kidding goes well most
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Roodoodle
Summersoups, Some are notSome are gazpacho, Some are hotSome are garden raw, Some are braisingSome made of a fatted calf they were raisingSome are pork bellies, Some beans and cornSome little Jack would be blowing his hornSome are consomme’, Some are

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