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Optimizing Your Homestead Farming & Gardening
Many of us have a garden and enjoy fresh vegetables during the summer and fall. Maybe we even have a few chickens for eggs and meat. But many of us…
Depression Era Gardening; What We Can Learn
No one wants to be the harbinger of bad news and no one wants to constantly hear a pessimist predict dire things for the future. However, if history repeats itself,…
Grow Open-Pollinated Seeds for Self-Reliant Gardening
In the past I’ve grown hybrid vegetables, mostly the varieties that have been developed to produce early yields. Because of this, I was able to grow things like sweet corn…
Backyard Rabbit Keeping, Part 7/15 – Growing Crops for Rabbits
It may seem to be rather an effort to set about growing crops for rabbits, but there are many advantages. Pollution from dogs, gasoline fumes and sprays makes wild food…
Backyard Rabbit Keeping, Part 6/15 – Feeding
Rabbits need roughly the same constituents in their food as other animals and as we do, with one or two exceptions. They are herbivorous and will eat most greenfood, grains…
Backyard Rabbit Keeping, Part 5/15 – Housing
The way in which your rabbits are housed depends on your preference and also on whether you have a garden or a field. I think that it is better to…
Backyard Rabbit Keeping, Part 4/15 – Making a Start
There is one way in which you and your family can take a headlong plunge into the rabbit world and begin to find out about it straight away. Go to…
Backyard Rabbit Keeping, Part 3/15 – Some Basic Information
Rabbits are not true rodents. They have two pairs of upper incisor teeth, whereas rats and mice have only one. They are very powerful teeth - a large curved pair…