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Canned Vegetable Beef Soup

Canned Vegetable Beef Soup

This meal is the most adaptable of winter meals. Add salad, bread for a complete feast. If you’re out of a certain veggie, skip it. You can add any veggie to it to increase proportions. Suggestions are dried beans, a handful of pasta, or buglar, okra, squash or zucchini, diced turnips, or finely sliced cabbage.
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February 13 2010 | Posted in What's Cooking | Read More »

Proof It Can Be Done: A Micro Farm in the Suburbs

Proof It Can Be Done: A Micro Farm in the Suburbs

November 17th, 2009
Many believe that a large acreage is needed to live off the fat of the land and be self sustaining.  This family has proved us all wrong.   While many Americans are looking onto the horizon of harder times and researching ways to be more frugal, this family is already doing it.  They live [...]

January 31 2010 | Posted in New Ideas in Farming | Read More »

Remember When?

Remember When?

Remember when Loaf Bread was 5 loaves for a dollar and gasoline was 19.9 cents a gallon?
Remember Coca-Cola came in 6 1/2 ounce returnable bottles?

Tell us what you remember from back in the day?

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January 31 2010 | Posted in Remember When? | Read More »

Man’s Good Deed Saves Stranger’s Vacation

Man’s Good Deed Saves Stranger’s Vacation

When Brian Tapp found a wallet and passport by the side of the road, he rushed to the airport to make sure a total stranger could get on his flight.
Brian Tapp, a 59-year-old florist from Sydney, Australia, had just been evicted from his shop. One morning last month, as he made a final trip to [...]

January 31 2010 | Posted in American Heros | Read More »

Teen Saves Life Of Woman Who Saved Him

Teen Saves Life Of Woman Who Saved Him

N.Y. teen performs Heimlich on nurse who gave him CPR years earlier
Call it a simple twist of fate — times two: A teenager in western New York state has saved the life of the same woman who years ago saved his life.
Seven years ago, Kevin Stephan of Lancaster, N.Y., was a bat boy for his [...]

January 31 2010 | Posted in American Heros | Read More »

The Farm, a man and a mission to help others

The Farm, a man and a mission to help others

By Debra Smith, Herald Writer
SNOHOMISH, WA — In a small town known for its antiques, quaint Victorian homes and historic downtown, the Farm is an anomaly.
It’s just outside Snohomish city limits, wedged between a business that rents backhoes and a veterinary clinic.
It’s not a farm in any conventional sense. No wheat or corn or potatoes are [...]

January 31 2010 | Posted in American Heros, Featured | Read More »