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Catnip flowers, by cygnus92177

Growing Catnip Commercially: Cash Crops for Small Farms

Small farmers and suburbanites alike can earn extra income by growing catnip to sell. Catnip (Nepeta cataria) is easy to grow in many areas of the United States. In fact, it's often considered a weed!...

3 comments    business make money agriculture
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Start a Maple Syrup Business

If you live in an area that is just full of sugar maple trees, perhaps starting a maple syrup business is for you. As a matter of fact, you don't even have to own the trees that you are collecting syrup...

2 comments    trees syrup sap
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Cash Crops for Small Farms: Pastured Poultry

Sustainable agriculture guru Joel Salatin of Polyface Farms calls pastured broilers "probably the most golden agricultural opportunity of the foreseeable future," eggs from pastured layers #2, and pastured...

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Cash Crops for Small Farms: Rabbit Manure

Family farmers, homesteaders, and even suburbanites can earn extra money with packaged rabbit manure. Rabbit manure is considered to be one of the best manures for gardens. Unlike many other animal manures,...

1 comment    business make money business ideas
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Myotonic Fainting Goat Videos and Information

This is a close, informative look, complete with funny videos, at fainting goats, or myotonic goats as they are also known. Included here are types of fainting goats, their history and uses, etc.

3 comments    goats meat goats fainting goats
Hadassah with her new twins.  Milk will be plentiful soon, and so will chevre!79

Marye Audet: Raising Livestock Hubs

I will index my articles by groups, and then finally, I will create a master index of links. I will post the address of that on my profile page and hopefully those who read my words will find more help, more quickly, and more easily.

2 comments    home hubpages how-to
Paul Bunyan, the big guy!75

Meet The Boys~Our Handsome Roosters!!

Our farm, any farm, would not be complete without a rooster! Of course there are many opinions on how many is too many when it comes to these feisty fellows! According to several hatcheries and poultry...

30 comments    teenagers fighting farm
Thank You, LORD, for the small farm businesses!64

Are We Going To Let This Happen?

I'm a raw vegan and a lot of my food is made with dates. I love this little farming business in California called The Date People. I've spoken with them on the phone before and they are the kindest people...

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Marye Audet on HubPages

I tend to think of my hubs as sort of an online Homesteading Magazine, like Mother Earth News, Backwoods Home,or Hobby Farms...only in an easy to read online format. And of course, free.

7 comments    recipes homesteading foraging
Alpaca Farm58

Alpaca Farm

People embark upon alpaca ownership for several different reasons. Some people see alpacas and fall in love with cute, cuddly creatures and then discover how profitable an alpaca farm can be, while others...

0 comments    alpaca alpacas cria
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