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Learn about healthy foods, how to grow them and ways to store food for later use. It is important to remember that there are numerous methods and techniques for growing food, so find the ones that are best suited for your style of living.

Gallery: Goats

We love our goats and have had many through the years. The females have kids every year and they help keep the pasture in check. When our goat population becomes to large, we trade or sell them.

Photo Journal: Life On A Self Sufficient Farm

This is a great photo documentary of life on a self sufficient farm in Northern Kentucky. The photos have been incorporated into a video with some sub-titles. These people have a great spread in a beautiful part of the world.

Backyard Farmers: Self-Sufficient And Debt-Free

When Myrna and Earl Fincher married 53 years ago they started farming their yard “out of necessity”. Today, the Finchers make a living selling their organic produce to restaurants and at the local farmers’ market twice a week for much of the year. They had no experience as farmers, but learned by trial and error.

Food Self-Sufficiency With Backyard Gardening

The principles of growing food are universal. Don’t trust someone else with your life. There is much we can learn from Kris Olsen of the Milagro Farm.

Four Acres And Independence: A Self-Sufficient Farmstead

Over several years, he transformed a rundown house and hillsides of berry brambles into pasture and gardens where he produces and preserves most of his family’s food.

Going Organic On A Shoestring Budget

Is there some way for we the people who live on a fixed income that is well below the national poverty line to eat healthy, or is eating healthy only for the rich?

Indoor Gardening: Grow 50 Delectable Edibles In Your Home

Are you thinking about having an urban-suburban indoor garden? Today, indoor farming’s a trend on the upswing, and for many good reasons. Among them is reducing exposure to the increasing outbreaks of Salmonella and deadly Listeria invading the food chain.

Best Chicken Breeds For Backyard Flocks

With so many chicken breeds (plus hybrids and crossbred chickens), you’re sure to find the kind of chickens that are just right for your needs.

The Freedom To Buy And Sell Raw Milk

The August 3, 2011, shakedown of the Rawesome food cooperative in Venice, California, in spite of the tragic outcome, has produced one positive result.

Farms Need People, Not Machines

Mechanization and automation have reduced the difficult physical labor of food production, but they’ve also rendered agriculture dependent on non-renewable, polluting substitutes.

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