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The prairie was established to protect the prairie blazing star ( Liatris pycnostachya ) and is home to many rare and endangered Pennsylvania plant species as well as to the endangered massasauga rattlesnake.

Or, quite possibly, you said to yourself "My beets and cucumbers look as good as any of these." Either way, you are the right candidate to move from spectator to participant and bring your own vegetables to the fair.

But I wanted to go for one reason only: the animals. Cows , sheep , pigs , goats , rabbits , oxen, and donkeys are all over the place. My husband and some friends wanted to indulge in the fair's many culinary delights (deep-fried butter and chocolate...

There, sitting on the top of the monitor was a gigantic. Gave it a whack and it started brewing. The words highlighted lead to their matching forum, just click on them to be taken there.

But wheat for grazing is an even higher priority this year because the drought has caused summer grazing to become non-existent and continued feeding has exhausted hay supplies. This is because November typically signals the start of a drier time of year...

I planted it in the centre of the garden amongst. Except for the staking, it needs no special care that I have noticed. Helen's flower does best in full sun although I do have it in a shade garden which receives only late day sunshine.

There is also the danger of breakage and burns while removing them from the oven.Also, and most importantly, the transfer of heat into the jars is much slower through air in an oven than in a water bath or a pressurized steam canner.

Church leaders also disapproved. The plant remains green year-round, and in the winter, it is further decorated with blue-black berries. In Europe, the leaves are used both externally and internally for medicinal purposes.

He recalls the animals being gentle and hardworking and most of all easy to take care of, considering he was doing it at such a young age. Water buffalo are often regarded as a precious inheritance.

Planning Crops Because the potager isn't meant to grow an enormous quantity of crops like a field garden, making the most out of the space is a concern. A Style for Your Potager The style of the garden is completely up to you, although the typical European...

They lay their eggs, which quickly hatch, on or inside the host plant's leaves. Perhaps one of the most obvious insect infestations in the garden is the handiwork of leafminer fly larva, which leave a telltale trail of destruction in their wake.

Try Different Dairies Many regional dairies now produce their own yogurt, and each has a distinctive flavor and tang. Ladle curd gently into a butter muslin lined colander, hang and drain 6-12 hours.

These are normally comprised of a hyphal sheaf covering the root tip & a mass of hyphae known as a Hartig Net, surrounding the root cortex.*Pine roots. VA mycorrhizas represent one of two broad categories of these associations, each of which appears in...

Sugar-making is also known as respiration or the "dark reactions," because it can occur when the sun is down. Grass will grow taller around an object left on a lawn, because it is shaded by that object.

She also believes that researchers selected a cross-section of operations that were meant to serve as a representative sample for research purposes. According to Heinzen, when EPA made the data public earlier this year, it provided no context about its...

From that time until this, whenever I have a spare hour or two in town, I take my camera to the Riverwalk to visit with my waterfowl friends, the Canada geese and the Mallard ducks.The mallards in town are very comfortable around humans and have learned...

I saw first-hand how my customers would anxiously wait for me to unload Dupont hibiscus and other plants at our nursery. It was always a pleasure to do business with them. In the small bayou town of Plaquemine, where the majestic cypress trees rise out...

Get more Hobby Farms downloads! Tags American Livestock Breeds Conservancy , chicken breeds , rare chickens Download the rare-chickens chart for a quick reference of breeds listed as Critical on the American Livestock Breed Conservancy Conservation Priority...

I also like to use flowering tobacco because it has a delicious sweet scent and the white flowers are open both morning and night. Specimens that might otherwise go unnoticed in the daylight become alive at night.

What sold well? It also helps to be social and open with customers and other farmers. If you are wanting to set up at a farmer's market, start gathering information before you plant the first seed.Locate a farmer's market you wish to be a part of within...

Well, there is actually only one true bug, but the collection of oversized insects and spiders is a wonder to behold. It does not present a very realistic appearance, yet the positioning of the legs gives it a kinetic effect, as if it might come scuttling...

In produce, he points out, sample size is very important. Advice from seasoned blue ribbon judges can help increase your chances of bringing home a prize! Livestock, for example, should represent well the variety or breed being shown.

It's good to practice being precise. We wear gloves and eye protection for this job because we've been doing it long enough to know that lye burns mean business, and we want to avoid them.

The importance of the area can be seen in the thousands of rock paintings left over millennia by Archaic hunters and gatherers, the Jornada Mogollon, and more recently by Apaches, the Kiowa, and the Tigua.Hueco tanks has typical Chihuahuan Desert vegetation...

A plant that grows quickly from seed, the leaves of the moonflower often extend 6 inches across, as do the solitary white blooms marked with a five-pointed star of a slightly different shade of white.The moonflower (Ipomoea alba), is related to the morning...

Survey Results The survey, which includes mention of about 7,600 breeds of cattle, pigs, sheep, poultry and other animals in 169 countries, reports that: 11% of the investigated breeds are now extinct (some having disappeared many decades ago), 16% are...

Like all other fermented foods—including beer , sauerkraut and cheese —you're working with a starter product and bacteria that do the work of fermentation, as well as time, temperature and equipment.