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Heritage cattle breeds are valued for their ancestry as well as their distinctive physical traits, which make their meat and milk stand out from conventional cattle products. These in-depth profiles detail the history and characteristics of various heritage cattle breeds.

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Wondering how to freeze corn off the cob? Do you have to blanch corn on the cob before freezing? Here's how to get sweet corn for the entire winter season.

How To Freeze Corn Off The Cob - Grit Wondering how to freeze corn off the cob? Do you have to blanch corn on the cob before freezing? Learn how to get sweet corn for the entire winter season.

Pressure canning is a cost-effective method for preserving batches of soups, stews, broth, meat and more. Make the pressure canner your ally in the kitchen for year-round food preservation!

Pressure Canning Basics - Grit Learn pressure canning basics by following this advice for low-acid food while sticking to pressure canning safety guidelines for easy year-round food preservation.

The thrill of preserving foods with salt is that nearly any vegetable you can fit into a jar can be pickled. Not just cabbage or cucumbers, but your garden’s bounty including green beans, sweet peppers, leeks, green tomatoes, carrots, cauliflower, eggplant, and watermelon-rind. Check out some of our favorite quick salt-preserved recipes below

Salt Preservation & Pickle Recipes - Grit Here’s the shake on our favorite salt preservation & pickle recipes – made with the only rock we eat.

Many of us have seen friends or family react to a spider with shrieking, foot-stomping panic – we may have even been that person. Here are 5 reasons to appreciate spiders

The Benefits of Spiders to Humans - Grit Our allies against bugs aren’t as scary as they seem. Learn many of the benefits of spiders to humans to better appreciate our eight-legged friends.

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Floods are the most common severe weather-related disaster in the U.S., but one that many assume will affect the “other guy.” With their risks misunderstood or ignored, floods also are the most expensive and deadly natural disasters. From rapid snowmelt to burst dams, hurricanes to major rainstorms, flooding affects many. Check out our tips for flood preparation below:

Flood Preparation - Grit Learn about historic floods, the different types of floods, how to prepare, and the steps you can take if caught in a flood.

Woodburning lets you create beautiful objects for your home or for gifts. It's a pretty inexpensive hobby as well, and you really can just jump right in and learn!

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QuikStrike® Fly Bait

Fly Control For Your Farm

A scatter bait that provides fly control at the low levels of your farm, use QuikStrike® Fly Bait in areas where flies feed. https://bit.ly/3xRahZt

Use these simple tools and techniques to carefully whittle wood into beautiful products like spatulas and other utensils.

Whittling Techniques - Grit

Give new life to knit socks or any torn garment by mending using the running darn, ladder darn, or blanket darn stitches.

Darn Mending Stitches - Grit

From grilling and smoking delicious foods to building your own grill or smoker, cooking outdoors is always a delight - find some new ideas in this free guide!

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Cut down on plastic consumption by switching to reusable bags. Here's a sewing pattern for a DIY grocery bag with a fabric hook to secure it while loading groceries.

DIY Grocery Bags - Grit Cut down on plastic consumption by switching to reusable bags by sewing a DIY grocery bag with a fabric hook to secure it while loading groceries.

Use the historic technique of wet felting to create an exfoliating, low-waste soap bar cover. Bars of soap covered with felted wool make nice homemade gifts, or maybe a nice product to sell! Learn the technique below

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Entice a variety of owls to nest around your farm or homestead using these a simple DIY owl box plans.

Simple DIY Owl Box Plans - Grit Entice a variety of owls to nest around your homestead using these simple DIY owl box plans.

It's a great time of year to build a DIY apple cider press. Use up any imperfect fruit and enjoy delicious fresh apple cider. If you have enough cider you can even can it to last all year round or ferment it into hard cider. Find our plans below!

DIY Apple Cider Press - Grit Fashion a DIY apple cider press so you can learn how to make apple cider. Get started pressing apples for cider today!

Let Grit show you how to make your dreams of rural living a reality - and save money with our Labor Day Sale!

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Fortify your patch of rural paradise: security, maintenance, and off-grid conservation hacks
Keep your livestock safe, healthy, and productive: poultry, goats, bees, and more!
Grow, hunt, and forage your way to greater food independence
Plus, discover new comfort food recipes and food-preservation techniques to extend the life of your seasonal bounty

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Celebrate the iconic Farmall tractors with this giveaway from Farm Collector! Enter for a chance to win a prize set valued at $150, featuring two books covering the expansive history of Farmall tractors over the last century. Enhance your collection or start a new one. Enter now for your chance to win these amazing items!

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Farm Collector Magazine

The phrase “home gunsmithing” conjures up pictures of a guy in knee breeches tending a forge and hammering out a rifle barrel from white hot strips of steel. What it actually entails more often is simply the task of maintaining existing fi****ms and keeping them up and running safely. Though the concept may sound daunting to many, if you possess average do-it-yourself skills and have an eye for detail, there’s really nothing to hold you back.

Gun Cleaning and Routine Home Gun Maintenance - Grit Prolong the life and performance of your guns, and save yourself some money, by keeping up with gun cleaning and routine gun maintenance.

Try something new and learn how to cure jerky made from fish. This simple cured fish recipe with leave you with a delicious snack!

Cured Fish Recipe for Jerky - Grit Try something new and learn how to cure jerky made from fish. This simple cured fish recipe will leave you with a delicious snack.

Learning how to can venison at home is a logical next step to hunting for food. These tips will guide you in canning deer meat that’ll provide hearty meals for your family all year long.

How to Can Venison - Grit Learning how to can venison is the next step to hunting for food. Use these tips for canning deer meat to provide meals for your family all year long.

Country Wisdom & Know-How is an unprecedented collection of information on nearly 200 individual topics of country and self-sustainable living - get your copy below!

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Looking for the best recipe for venison summer sausage? This jalapeño-cheese summer sausage recipe with venison will give you just the right kick of flavor.

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Harvest rainwater in a low-maintenance collection setup to water your garden and fill your stock tanks with this free, life-giving resource.

DIY Rainwater Collection System - Grit Learn about gutter water collection by building a DIY rainwater collection system to water your garden and fill stock tanks.

Do you wish for a more resilient, sustainable, and empowered way of providing for your family in uncertain times? Are you worried about unreliable power grids, uncertain water supplies, or overly complex food chains? Veteran homesteader and star of Discovery's Homestead Rescue Marty Raney shares a big-picture vision of how ordinary families can become radically resilient homesteaders: powering, feeding, and caring for themselves through their own efforts and on their own land.

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Learn how to tell if your chickens have mite or lice infestation and treat it effectively for the health of your flock and egg production.

How to Tell If Your Chickens Have Mites or Lice - Grit

🎉 Garlic Giveaway Alert! 🎉 Enter to win a $50 gift certificate for garlic starts from Filaree Farm! Watch your garden grow with the best organic garlic.

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Every farmer wants to get away once in a while. But leaving tender garden crops, valuable livestock animals, and intricate daily routines can make a vacation from farming almost impossible. While some farmers, particularly vegetable and flower gardeners, are able to escape during the winter months, those with livestock or year-round growing seasons can’t simply leave the farm. Check out these tips to find a good farm sitter

Farm Sitter Wanted - Grit Intricate daily routines can make a vacation from farming almost impossible. Follow these tips to find a farm sitter to care for valuable livestock animals.

"Bring the Kids & Share the Memories" From steam engines, antique cars and trucks, tractors, gas engines, and horses. Maybe your memories are the great food from the North Village to the Log Village or learning how to square dance over at the dance barn. Whatever your memories are, this is the place "Where Memories are Made," Make plans now to enjoy the history of the past at the 2024 Midwest Old Threshers Reunion from August 29 through September 2 in Mount Pleasant. https://www.oldthreshers.org/