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Organic Gardening, Modern Homesteading, Renewable Energy, Green Homes, Do it Yourself Projects – MOTHER EARTH NEWS

http://www.motherearthnews.com/ Mother Earth News, upon first glance, is a good primer for those reading up on renewable energy or self-sustaining living. Looking deeper, however, it’s a tremendous resource of farming tips, DIY projects and all around Good Stuff. They’ve very generously provided their entire archive dating back to the early 80s (probably even earlier – […]

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A dog man gets a cat. – By Jon Katz – Slate Magazine

http://www.slate.com/id/2133625?nav/navoa/ I’m enjoying the Slate articles by Jon Katz, about whom I know nothing except that he appears to be a city slicker with a hobby farm. His writings about the farm’s animal residents reveal a lack farming experience and a very metropolitan manner, but sweetly mixed with a tendency to anthropomorphise and capture little […]

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