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How big a vegetable garden should be is a common question among people who are considering taking on this task for the first time. While there is no right or wrong way to go about determining the size of your vegetable garden, the general answer is to start small. For starters, it’s probably a good idea to figure out what you want to plant, how much you want to plant, and where you want to plant it before you do anything. Garden sizes also depend on the availa
Due to limited demand, you may not find duck feed at a local farm store, but you can buy it online (mazuri.com offers a complete line), or you can adapt unmedicated chicken feed to suit your ducks. Newly hatched ducklings require a formula that’s high in protein (18 to 20 percent) with well-balanced amino acids – typical of chick starter feeds. Boost the niacin content by adding 5 to 7 pounds of brewer’s yeast per 100 pounds of chick feed. Ducks raised fo
With more than a thousand breeds to choose from, first-time sheep farmers must plan carefully, making sure to provide plenty of space and strong fencing. Sheep are social animals, so they need companionship. Keep at least two sheep at a time, recommends Susan Schoenian, a sheep and goat specialist at the Western Maryland Research and Education Center. “A sheep will become very agitated if it is separated from the rest of the flock,” she explains. Sheep also enjoy huma
The hot sauce brand Heartbreaking Dawns makes its 1498 Cauterizer from the Trinidad Scorpion pepper, the hottest pepper in the land. One morning, I put a few rust-red drops of Cauterizer on my egg sandwich. Fire. Fire. A wild conflagration that water could not put out. But deep behind the heat, on the fringes of the skyrocketing spice, the tastes of carrot, blueberry and apricot lurked. The heat-seeker in me was smiling. That heat — leavened with those bare hints of f