Yankee Farmer's Market Blog
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'Shrooms' - Grow Your Own!
Mushrooms are amazing - they can clean up pollution, help trees talk to each other, plus they have such a subtle, unique,...
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Guild Building - Grapes, Flowers, & More!
Feast on native Concord grapes, fill your vases with blooms, and boost your backyard biodiversity! You can use permaculture techniques to increase your garden's yield, create...
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Baby Goats!
We got our 4 Nigerian goat doelings this weekend and we could not be more excited to have them join our homestead. We got them because they are small, have...
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Eating Seasonally, Pt. 2 - Asparagus
I love enjoying the bounty of fresh, seasonal vegetables and fruits New England has to offer....
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Recharge Your Batteries With Grounding
We are energy collectors and consumers. This helps our body and immune system work properly.Yup, you heard it right, our bodies are batteries, and we are negatively charged. Just as...
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For the Love of Farming
My passion and purpose continues to be anchors for our farming practices. Today 3 new Scottish Highland calves were born. New life, greening pastures, and warmer weather fuels the passion...
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Earth Week Activities
Happy Earth Week! Friday, April 22nd is Earth Day, a day to celebrate, enjoy, and give back to our planet. Project Learning Tree is a great resource for outdoor and...
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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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Eating (& Drinking) Seasonally
One of the best things about spring in New England is the bounty of food, flowers, and sunshine coming soon....but not quite yet. But even before the spring veggies are...
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Hiking the Mink Hills
Did you know there's a great set of challenging trails right here in Warner? The little-known Mink Hills are a great hike. They are part of the Chandler Reservation Trail...
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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...
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Compost - Black Gold
Compost - the solution to many questions. Is your soil too acidic? Add compost. Is your soil too sandy? Add compost. Is your soil too clayey? Add compost. Lacking organic...
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Animal Organs for Nose-To-Tail Eating
Eating nose to tail. You've heard it before. It's balancing the ratios of muscle meat and bones, fat and connective tissues. Basically it's the Methionine to Glycine balance that matters....
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Inclined Bed Therapy
This is one of my favorite biohacking techniques of them all! So what the heck is it? Simple, just raise the head of your bed up above the foot, anywhere...
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Book Club - Homesteading
There are so many great books out there on gardening and starting a homestead but The Rooted Life by Justin Rhodes is by far my favorite. Whether you have an...
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Make Your Own Kombucha Continuous Brew!
Kombucha is one of the healthiest drinks you...
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Hack Your Cooking with the Instant Pot
With buffalo we often use the saying, half the heat, half the time. With the Instant Pot it's 10x the speed and 1/10th the time! Cooking has never been high...
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Nose To Tail Cooking
I love "nose to...
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Biohacking With The Oura Ring
The Oura Ring is one of my favorite biohacking tools! A valuable device for tracking and monitoring several health factors, the Oura Ring is top notch....
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Garden Planing
It is usually about this time of year...
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Keep Chickens without Grains and Save Money!
Baby Chick season is almost here! I ordered my 16 Lavender Orpington's yesterday! This breed is friendly and very cold hardy. I am so excited to start keeping chickens as...
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Learn About Bees with Brigitte!
Fun Facts about Honey Bees! There are three types of bees in the hive: Queen, Worker and Drone. Honey bees have five eyes, and four wings that are...
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Happy Birthday Diego... our famous Highlander
Happy 5th Birthday to our Viral Sensation Diego"A snowy day on the farm didn't stop the birth of this little Scottish highland calf!"