Yankee Farmer's Market Blog
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Spring Cleaning for the Farm & Homestead
Today marks the first day of spring! With all the excitement of renewal, rebirth, green leaves poking up through frozen, muddy ground, also comes a...
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Fat, Fat, Glorious Fat!
Fat, tallow, suet, lard - whatever you call it, if you live on a farm it is plentiful and has 1,000 uses from frying the best fries ever to making...
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Growing a Giant Pumpkin, Part 5 (Plus Recipes!)
Giant pumpkins have reached the fruiting stage! Our giant cucurbit has unfurled its massive leaves, collected a bunch of...
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Growing a Giant Pumpkin, Part 4
Our pumpkins are growing! Summer is truly here, and our pumpkin plants are crawling like crazy. They are sending out their tendrils all over the garden, soaking up that sun,...
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Book Club - You Can Farm
You Can Farm by Joel Salatin is packed with the most vital information about starting your own farm. We are living in a time now when learning to grow your...
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Making Bison Tallow
They say there's a first time for everything. As I love testing and experimenting with different things, fat rendering seemed next on the docket. Tallow is simply cooked down fat...
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Dehydrating Apples
Apples are one of my favorite foods year-round. Dehydrating them is a great way to put up a lot of them for long-term use.They are a great treat when rehydrated...