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Learn how to can green beans with Ball, the leader in home canning and fresh preserving. This video shows you how to safely preserve vegetables – like green beans – at home, using Ball regular mouth pint glass canning jars.

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Dave travels to the State of Washington for a Harvest of Organic Apples; and then checks out an elegant Conservatory as a haven for plants and art at The Garfield Conservatory.

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How long do Cayuga ducks usually live with first time duck owners?

Image by francescominciotti And the story goes: the Duck race is a a non-competetive, in aid of charity contest that take place, every year since 2005, in several cities all around the US. You can «adopt» a rubber duck (as the ones shown in this picture) and, if your duck places on the first five […]

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I am terrified of bees and wasps?

Image by Andreas Solberg Bernini’s baroque Triton Fountain (Italian Fontana del Tritone) is located in Piazza Barberini, Rome, near the entrance to the Palazzo Barberini (now housing the Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Antica), which Bernini helped redesign for his patron Maffeo Barberini, who had become pope as Urban VIII. It is a few blocks from Borromini’s […]

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John explains how sprinkler timer and sprinkler valves are installed and how they can be used to work with a drip irrigation system..

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Wind – a quiet solution to climate change

Windmills don’t pollute our air or water, and compared to pretty much everything else, let’s be honest — they aren’t very loud either.

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Where can I find baby ducks in San Diego?

Image by Topato Lucy adopted us about 4 years ago while she was 6-12 months old. We’ve always figured she was 1/2 lab and 1/2 pit bull. More likely, she is a combination of poorly bred lab and pit, and/or possibly some pointer. She has markings on her chest that suggest some pointer lineage, and […]

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Question by Jack: What should I breed my boer x goat with? I’ve got a boer x doe that we would really like to get kids out of to bottle feed. I was just wondering if it matters what we breed her with? We’re not stressed on having purebred babies but would it be better […]

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What’s an amazing extra-curricular that a home school student can do?

Image by Gary_Troughton This was without doubt, the best honey that I have ever had – from bees that had made a nest in the roof of the church, and had resided there for at least three years. When bee keepers removed them, over 100lbs of honey was collected and jarred. This "limited edition" honey […]

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When making a solar water heater has anyone used a Fresnel Len as the glass to increase heating?

Image by Mikenan1 Emptied out closet Question by Chad M: When making a solar water heater has anyone used a Fresnel Len as the glass to increase heating? Can you help? Leave your own answer in the comments!

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