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Folly or fantastic - I'm growing a cloak!

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raising silkmoths (silkworms) - Sericulture, Moriculture, and the wild ones

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diatomaceous earth

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wildlife

Wildlife at Wheaton Labs

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Vancouver Island fibreshed - what are we getting right? what's missing?

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Weird things cats have done

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weird things chickens have done

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goats and sheep

Raising sheep only for wool

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chickens

best perennial chicken feed

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honey bees

One Solution to the Crisis: Landrace Everything

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Just checking in

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goats and sheep

"Backyard Dairy Goats" book

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chickens

making the best of raising cornish rock cross

91 replies 5 11

butchery

If I ever teach butchery or dressing a carcass again

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bugs

I thought permaculture insect control had failed me, but land racing saved the day!

144 replies 18 34

ducks and geese

duckling pictures

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goats and sheep

I would love to see the woolen industry rise from the ashes

80 replies 5 11 26

llamas and alpaca

A book on designing a permaculture farm with a focus on Fiber?

48 replies 1 9 20

honey bees

What type of hive would be best for Sheer Total and Utter Neglect?

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goats and sheep

bought an old spinning wheel...photos and questions

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What would you like to see in a cheesemaking book?

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bugs

Possible tick deterrence by asters? Daisy Fleabane Erigeron strigosus

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chickens

What if I painted 100 chicken portraits?

26 replies 1 3 5

bugs

I need to make ladybug food

19 replies 28

chickens

Fed up with this 2 story metal 6-box nesting box!

22 replies 22 19

bugs

green lynx spider, peucetia viridans and other lynx spiders

29 replies 29 20

honey bees

First time building a Kenya Top Bar Hive

31 replies 2 12 15

dogs and cats

new shepherd pup! I must be nuts!

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chickens

Encouraging free ranging for baby chicks raised indoors

40 replies 21 27

chickens

Chicken inbreeding

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bugs

How do I grow mosquitoes? (to feed to my goldfish)

17 replies 2 3

chickens

Who says Industrial chickens won't go broody?

13 replies 9 28

ducks and geese

Help with "wobbly" gosling - particularly feed support

18 replies 9 15

chickens

Commercial feed and egg production

37 replies 1 2 10

nibblers

Death to scale bugs - help me brew up some organic death spray to save my citrus trees

34 replies 1 4

dogs and cats

Dogs found

36 replies 27

wildlife

Anyone else fond of amphibians?

24 replies 1 30 34

nibblers

Clean mice

12 replies 1 5

bugs

wild grape cooties!

11 replies 2 5

wildlife

Beavers, can they just all get along?

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Under Blue Sky The Life of a Herdsman

6 months ago 33 replies 139 20

goats and sheep

Powdered human-grade (cow) milk for lamb?

6 months ago 2 replies 1

chickens

I think a hen has gone broody, what next?

6 months ago 5 replies 4 2

bugs

Plants for a ladybug garden.

6 months ago 2 replies

wildlife

Top wildflowers and grasses for producing productive and edible seedheads.

7 months ago 0 replies

turkeys

sexing young adult turkeys

7 months ago 9 replies 1 10 5

nibblers

Guinea pigs for weed control

7 months ago 2 replies

chickens

Growing your own chicken feed

7 months ago 27 replies 2 12

chickens

Alternative to Blu-Kote

7 months ago 4 replies 1

bugs

Mealworms pupating early

7 months ago 0 replies 1

chickens

Torn rooster claw

7 months ago 3 replies

pigs

Age to wean piglets?

7 months ago 6 replies 1 2

pigs

Pig lying down while feeding

7 months ago 4 replies 2

chickens

Disease Resistant Chickens

7 months ago 9 replies 1

predators

Will poultry predators pass through a barn?

7 months ago 3 replies

ducks and geese

Straight run all drakes :(

7 months ago 13 replies 3

wildlife

Increases in Solar Radiation and UV

7 months ago 0 replies

wildlife

Beavers, can they just all get along?

7 months ago 34 replies 2 8 16

cattle

Very interesting scouring calf fix.

7 months ago 16 replies 3

goats and sheep

I have sheep dying for no obvious reason. I'd like to hear thoughts on what's wrong. I may rant.

7 months ago 36 replies 5 14

wildlife

prairie dog removal?

7 months ago 5 replies 3

dogs and cats

Dog Mineral Feeder?

7 months ago 5 replies 1

wildlife

hay stack guardians?

7 months ago 2 replies 1

cattle

Friend In Idaho Has 8 Jersey Cows a Milk Machine and a Stock Trailer for $8000

7 months ago 2 replies

cattle

living with skunks

7 months ago 2 replies 2

shelters and habitat

bird and bat boxes

7 months ago 0 replies

rotational grazing

electric fence shifting hacks for mesh fence--for beginners

7 months ago 12 replies 6 6

dogs and cats

getting rid of fleas

7 months ago 2 replies

goats and sheep

Livestock guardian moving a lamb

7 months ago 8 replies

pigs

Kune Kune Hairloss

7 months ago 6 replies 4

pigs

Kunekune losing hair and dry skin

7 months ago 2 replies 1

wildlife

Heliciculture?

7 months ago 1 reply

chickens

Are Black Soldier Fly Larvae a bust??

7 months ago 12 replies 1

chickens

Bleeding out chicken

7 months ago 8 replies 1

goats and sheep

Advice on Goat De-Worming

7 months ago 15 replies

chickens

raising broilers or meat birds in a food forest

7 months ago 44 replies [ 1, 2 ] 7 1

chickens

Chicken tricks

7 months ago 3 replies 1 4

pigs

Can pigs eat water lily leaves or tubers?

7 months ago 6 replies

chickens

My BEST Chicken Coop & Tractor (Version 2.0)

7 months ago 1 reply 1

chickens

Roosters Good with Kiddos

7 months ago 15 replies 1 7

pigs

Have you ever rented out your pigs to clear land?

7 months ago 11 replies

rabbits

Media for sprouts ?

7 months ago 9 replies 2 1

cattle

happy cows

7 months ago 15 replies 2 15 17

pigs

What are the piggy's doing?

7 months ago 3 replies 8 4

goats and sheep

goat for clearing future pasture(s)… +what companion animal

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