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Beginning Farmers Crops & Gardening Farm & Garden Foraging

Forage Wild Garlic (Or Onion Grass) For Flavorful Goodness

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Prolific and pleasantly pungent, wild garlic is packed with as much flavor as its grocery-store counterpart and offers a wealth of health benefits, too.

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Crops & Gardening Farm & Garden Foraging

Harvest Creeping Charlie For Its Respiratory Benefits

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Also known as alehoof or ground ivy, this herb, common to mulched gardens and landscapes, provides a number of respiratory benefits.

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Farm & Garden Foraging Homesteading Projects

Make DIY Foraged Pine Cone Fire Starters 

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Get things going fast in your woodstove with these easy-to-make pine cone fire starters, which require only a few natural and foraged ingredients.

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Video Round Up: 5 Favorite Hobby Farms Stories

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We rounded up 5 of our favorite Hobby Farms video stories from the past year. Check them out, then dig into all the great video content from our contributors!

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Farm & Garden Food Foraging Recipes

Book Review: “Wildcrafted Vinegars”

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Pascal Baudar’s “Wildcrafted Vinegars” is a comprehensive guide to making (and using) vinegars using both foraged and store-bought ingredients.

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Crops & Gardening Farm & Garden Foraging Foraging Homesteading

How To Harvest Stinging Nettles (Video)

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Stinging nettles are often regarded as pesky weeds, but learn to recognize and harvest the plant for their nutritional and medicinal value!

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Beginning Farmers Crops & Gardening Farm & Garden Food Foraging Homesteading Recipes

Elderberry Syrup: An Easy & Healthy Refrigerator Recipe

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'Tis the season for sniffles and other maladies, so give your immune system some support with this easy recipe for refrigerator elderberry syrup.

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Crops & Gardening Farm & Garden Food Foraging Foraging Video

Foraging, Drying & Storing Oyster Mushrooms (Video)

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Plentiful and available year-round, oyster mushrooms are easy to spot. In this video, we look at finding, cleaning and drying foraged mushrooms.

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Harvesting Hickory Nuts & Celebrating Kunekunes At 5 Dog Farm

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Niki from the Tennessee-based family venture 5 Dog Farm gives us the inside scoop on how to make a four-generation farm prosper.

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Farm & Garden Food Foraging Foraging

Oyster Mushrooms Are Tasty & Easy To Find In The Wild

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In this excerpt from "How to Forage Mushrooms without Dying," Frank Hyman talks about foraging oyster mushrooms, preparing and preserving them and more.

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