Saturday, October 24, 2026

By cutting poison hemlock down after flowering, you can eliminate its potential to produce more seeds. Peak bloom for is in late May and early June.
pickled cucumbers

Learn to properly pickle cucumbers to ensure safe preservation and optimum taste.
Plantain herb

Learn to gather and use plantain to treat common ailments like bronchitis, burns, rashes, insect bites/stings, ulcers, urinary tract infection and wounds.
black walnut

Learn how to pick an ideal planting site, choose viable seeds and ensure seed germination to successfully grow a walnut tree from seed.

Learn more about alternative methods to combat fleas in your house and on your pets.
Milkweed seed pods

Tami Gingrich offers tips for harvesting and propagating milkweed seeds.
wood stack

Learn to conduct simple moisture tests and identify seasoned wood by its appearance, weight, smell and other characteristics.
tadpoles

Learn how to set up and maintain a habitat to raise frogs from tadpoles, including specific care instructions for each stage of a tadpole's life cycle.
canada geese

Canada geese can be encouraged to abandon the pond, yard, golf course or park by implementing multiple strategies in a rotation before nests are built.
goats on pasture

FAMACHA scoring is used to identify risk of barber pole worm infestation in small ruminants. It is an effective, easy-to-use tool everyone from backyard hobbyists to large-scale producers can use on the farm.