farming
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About month ago, we killed and ate our rooster. (I’ve been behind on my blogging, there has been a lot of work to do) This was the first time we have actually slaughtered an animal. Of course, this is a part of homesteading, but it was a monumental step for my brother and I. The
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This is my submission Alexeigynaix’s Athena Agon, and to that Athena devotional as well. Athena of Farmers by Amanda Artemisia Forrester My Lady Athena I have worshiped You for decades now, Since my heart first lurched at the sound of Your name When I was just a child. I have followed You through
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A review of Sheepish: Two Women, Fifty Sheep, and Enough Wool to Save the Planet by Catherine Friend Sheepish is a delightful little book of vignettes – some related, some less so – of Catherine Friend’s life on sheep farm with her wife, who is much more euthanistic about the farming lifestyle than Catherine herself
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I recently read Barnyard in Your Backyard: A Beginner’s Guide to Raising Chickens, Ducks, Geese, Rabbits, Goats, Sheep, and Cattle by Gail Demerow (check it out here). I got my relatively-new copy from Amazon just about three weeks ago, and already I’ve succeeded in dog-earing it all to hell. For the last three weeks this book lived
Temple of Athena the Savior 