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How to Make a Medicinal Tincture, Just in Time for Cold & Flu Season
Health enthusiasts happily shell out hundreds of dollars each year for herbal products of every variety, from lavender salt scrubs for the bath to peppermint flea sprays for their pets. Those purchases support the $100 billion global market for herbal supplements and remedies, but a majority of those products—or at least close approximations of them—can be made at home from plants growing in your own garden or collected from a nearby natural area.
Can Careful Food Pairings Trick Kids Into Eating Their School Lunches?
Also: In Texas, kids eat something called a “sunbutter sandwich.” They do not appear to like it very much.
A Massive Study of Sheep Genes May Help Today’s Breeders
The most exhaustive maternal genetic analysis of sheep may help developing countries breed sheep for meat, rather than wool.
There’s a Giant Corn Maze Shaped Like Taylor Swift’s Face
If you don’t “Shake It Off” (meaning move quickly) you may never get “Out of the Woods” (“woods” = corn) and have to “Stay” for “22” (“too, too”) long!
Farm Aid First Listen: Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats
Nathaniel Rateliff has always made music about hard times and hard luck, broken hearts, and empty bottles.
A Reality Show We Can Get Behind: “Keeping Up With the Cowdashians”
The Kardashians, we suspect, are not fans.
New Report Tracks Rise of Antibiotic Resistance in Humans and Livestock
A new report on the global use of antibiotics and the rise of antibacterial-resistant bacteria is out today and the news isn’t good.
5 Ways to Landscape with Edible Plants this Fall
This fall, try an apple tree instead of a dogwood or a row of blueberry bushes instead of hydrangeas.
Video: Watch Some Moroccan Goats, Straight Chillin’ in a Tree
Have you seen any goats in trees lately?
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