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Good Samaritan Cabby Brings Ducks to Safety
A cab driver in Calgary, Alberta, gave a family of ducks a friendly lift last week, saving them from oncoming traffic.
The familiar Mallard isn’t the only breed worth farming. These 12 options include some ducks that excel at egg laying, others that bulk up fast with meat, plus an
ideal pet or two.
Bacon, beer and burgers: A roundup of a few of the more memorable culinary crashes of the recent past.
Rare, Centuries-Old New Mexico Sheep Breed Back From The Brink
A sheep that accompanied Coronado in 1540 is making a comeback in Albuquerque.
3 Ways to Build a Hog Wire Trellis
The panels are typically sold in 16-foot lengths at feed stores and range from 34 inches to 50 inches in height. Technically, only the shorter panels are for containing pigs, while...
Colombian Coffee’s Biggest Problem: No One Wants to Pick It.
Colombia has amazing coffee, and not nearly enough people to pick it.
How to Grow Your Own Tomatoes, Part 3: Staking, Training and Pruning
Tomato beds have an unfair reputation as the messiest, ugliest, most disease-ridden parts of a vegetable garden. To keep them from devolving to this sorry state, tomato plants need your care and support.
