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How to Make Sure Your Pumpkins Look Amazing All Season
Pumpkin season is finally here!! If you’re like me, you absolutely love filling your front porch with a variety of different colored and shaped pumpkins. Big ones, small ones, bumpy ones… But there’s nothing worse than bringing your pumpkins home from the patch, only to have them start rotting a week later! I’ve been growing pumpkins on our farm for about 8 years, and my husband started even before that. I’ve seen it all, and I’ve got your back. Some issues aren’t easily avoidable, and all pumpkins will rot. But with these tips you can slow that process down to hopefully get your pumpkins to last the entire season. Pick…
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43 Ways to Make Money on Your Hobby Farm
Did you know you could earn a living off of your land? The more you dive into hobby farming and homesteading, the more you realize: there is no “off season.” In other words you complete one task to move to the next, and are constantly shifting your focus based on the time of year. Early springtime means starting seedlings, and hatching chicks. Then planting season begins, which moves to maintaining your gardens, the high egg production of summer time, honey, raising cattle and pigs, cut flowers and manure. As you head into fall, harvest kicks into high gear, canning season and pumpkin season take over – only to be met…
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Building a Community Around a Dream
Three years ago I almost threw in the towel. We had a baby and we were killing ourselves trying to build our little patch when we caught someone literally filling his truck bed with our pumpkins....
