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Hazard A Guess: Week of March 18, 2010
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Hazard a Guess?

Do you know what this is?
No one has guessed yet!
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Alan Guebert

Celebrating St. Patrick’s Day was a rare occurrence on Guebert farm

Sometime shortly after March 1, winter lost its frozen grip on my backyard and brown blotches of lifeless grass and small mats of soggy hickory leaves began to emerge from their cemetery of snow.
It didn’t come as a surprise, though, because for a week the loud, love-sick calls of flaming red cardinals had drifted […]

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Scott Shalaway

Duck identification requires more than just effort

Though most migratory song birds won’t arrive until April or May, March is a great month to tackle waterfowl identification. Binoculars and a field guide are the essential tools.
To find waterfowl, visit wetlands — lakes, farm ponds, beaver ponds, flooded meadows, and rivers, especially near dams. These are the habitats ducks frequent as they […]

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David Marrison

Set your own milk price by making cheese and marketing it instead

Farmstead and artisan cheese operations can allow farm families to become price-makers instead of price takers for their milk. A hands-on workshop in Ohio can show you how.

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Judith Sutherland

‘In my day…’: Generations have tunnel vision

We will forever see things from our own perspectives based on our generational ties.

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Kymberly Foster Seabolt

Family vacation: Sunny days or bust

As if Andrew and Rita didn’t do enough damage, pity the great state of Florida which now has the Seabolts to contend with. When the unexpected but delightfully generous offer of a beach-front condo dangled in front of us, we jumped on it.

Granted, with the spate of midwestern blizzards that have beleaguered us lately, we […]

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