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Mother Earth News and Friends — 409 episodes

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1

Grow a Modern Victory Garden Audio Article and Discussion

2

Sourcing an E-bike

3

Preventing Poultry Predation from Domestic Canines and Felines

4

Growing a Cut Flower Garden Audio Article

5

Increase Egg Production Naturally

6

Arboreal Flavors Audio Article

7

Spring Beehive Inspection

8

Navigating the Teenage Poultry Weeks

9

Coop Planning with Maintenance in Mind

10

Busting Brooder Boredom: Activities and DIY Hacks to Prevent Poultry Pecking

11

Feed Your Family For a Year Audio Article and Discussion

12

Keep Going and Growing Throughout the Decades Audio Article and Discussion

13

Understanding Egg Development

14

Herbs for Sleep, Stress, and Sobriety

15

How to Cook on a Woodburning Cookstove

16

Biomimicry and Soil Health

17

The Useful Goat

18

2025 Editorial Roundup

19

Appreciating Herbs with Rosemary Gladstar

20

Approachable Plant-based Nutrition with Tig Notaro

21

Co-existing with Urban and Suburban Wildlife

22

Growing in Deep Winter

23

Prepping Your Flock for Severe Weather

24

How to Freeze Dry Food at Home

25

Preparing Your Chickens for Autumn

26

Gardening in the Fall with Farmer Nick

27

Make It Yourself with Jimmy DiResta

28

Raising Quail for Meat and Eggs

29

Control Pests Naturally

30

Bloom Where You're Planted

31

Dogs Guarding Livestock

32

The True Cost of Chickens

33

Telling Farmer Stories

34

Creating Catios

35

Rare Poultry Breeds Update

36

Good Griddling with Steven Raichlen

37

Adaptable Heritage Animals

38

Herbs for Every Season

39

The Pros and Cons of Poultry Bedding Audio Article and Discussion

40

7 Foraging Finds

41

Is Gardening Worth It Financially?

42

Preventing Poultry Predators

43

Sourcing Sustainable Seeds

44

Verify Your Vegetation Audio Article

45

Preventing Spring Poultry Illness Audio Article and Discussion

46

Sustainable Fishing

47

Hatching Goose, Guinea, and Duck Eggs

48

Exploring Microfarms with Jean-Martin Fortier

49

Rewilding Your Property

50

Easy Chicken Breeds for Beginners

51

Best Beekeeping Practices

52

Benefits of Herbal Tea

53

Your Path to Self-Reliance

54

Regenerative Growth

55

Ask Me Anything: 2024 Editors Edition

56

Audio Article: Just Add Chickens

57

Winterizing Your Vehicle

58

Fermentation Journeys

59

Raising Pheasant Chicks

60

Apartment Homesteading: How to Be a Homesteader in Limited Space

61

Best Egg Layers: Top Hybrid & Heritage Breeds

62

Audio Article: Keep Chickens in Winter Gardens

63

Preparing for Extreme Weather Events

64

What to Know About Raising Swans

65

Can You Eat Wild Boar?

66

Best Vegetables for Canning, Dehydrating, and More

67

Audio Article: Can Chickens Hatch Ducks?

68

Heritage Breed Update with the Livestock Conservancy

69

Condors, Conservation, & You

70

Do Pigeons Make Good Pets? An Interview with the National Pigeon Association

71

Responsible Antibiotics Use in Animals

72

Audio Article: Keep Your Ducks in a Row

73

How to Sell Eggs from Home

74

Gardening Problems and Solutions

75

How to Protect Your Poultry and Waterfowl

76

Audio Article: Chick and Duckling Imprinting

77

How to Care for Baby Ducks

78

Teaching Kids About Hatching Baby Chicks

79

Audio Article: Bring New Chicks Home

80

A Mushroom Hunting Guide for Beginners

81

When to Stop Turning Chicken Eggs and Other Incubation Troubleshooting

82

Plans for Growing Vegetables for Beginners

83

Making Soap with Lye for Beginners

84

Audio Article - Not Just for the Birds: Bird Feeding and You

85

Home Solar Energy Pros and Cons

86

External Parasite Prevention for Pets and Livestock

87

Audio Article: Essential Elements for a Predator-Proof Coop

88

Audio Article: Build a Basic Survival Shelter

89

How to Grow Mushrooms: Liquid Culture Recipe

90

Audio Article: Learning with Seeds, Engaging Young Minds

91

Intro to 4-H Chicken Showmanship and Poultry Projects

92

What are Cordyceps?

93

Audio Article: Rodenticide Toxicity in Pets

94

Audio Article: Outrunning a Bug Apocalypse

95

Chicken Combs: Problems and Care

96

Gardening With Kids: Getting Them Started

97

Audio Article: Hunting to Put Food on the Table

98

Audio Article: Black Foodways: Nourishing the Community, Sharing Knowledge

99

How to Start a Gardening Business: Community Gardens, Consultations, and Installations

100

Seed-Starting Tips with Indy Officinalis

101

Chicken Coop Essentials and Design Ideas

102

What's the Deal with Truffles?

103

Urban Farming & Selling Microgreens

104

Audio Article: Year-Round Care for Sheep

105

Farmers Markets, Food Systems, and Community Building

106

Audio Article: All About the Heat

107

How to Raise Geese with Dave Holderread

108

Raising Heritage Goat Breeds for Milk

109

Discussing Animal Care with Dr. Pol

110

Audio Article: Food Versus Fuel

111

Sustainability and Houseplants with Summer Rayne Oakes

112

Sustainability and Community: A Talk with the 2023 Mother Earth News Voices

113

Heritage Poultry Update: Threatened Rare Chicken Breeds & More

114

Ep. 191 Herbal Spotlight: Wild Medicinal Plants to Forage

115

Audio Article: Cation Exchange Capacity in the Garden

116

Ep. 190 What to Know about Elk Farming

117

Audio Article: How the Electric Car Killed the Corn Industry

118

Ep. 189 Raising Emus for Profit

119

Ep. 188 Spicy Chiles: What Makes Peppers Hot?

120

Ep. 187 Edible Insects for Pets and People

121

Audio Article: Transitioning to a Certified Organic Farm

122

Ep. 186 Learn to Build with Natural Materials

123

Audio Article: Draft Horses on the Homestead

124

Ep. 185 How to Raise Ducks for Eggs in Your Backyard

125

Ep. 184 Caring for Carnivorous Plants

126

Ep. 183 Dealing with Parasites in Your Beehives

127

Audio Article: How to Help Wild Baby Birds

128

Ep. 182 Building Sustainable Communities

129

Audio Article: Repair the Nitrogen Cycle in Your Garden

130

Audio Article: Raising Goslings

131

Ep. 181 How to Care for Baby Chicks in Summer or Fall

132

Audio Article: After Day 22

133

Audio Article: Weather-Related Power Outages

134

Audio Article: Seek Out Small Farms

135

Audio Article: Saving Biennial Seeds

136

Ep. 180 Dragonflies on Your Property

137

Audio Article: Host a Successful Farm Workshop

138

Audio Article: Dickering, The High Art of Going Low

139

Audio Article: Prevent Compost Toxicity in Dogs

140

Ep. 179 How to Make Biogas at Home with a Biogas Digester

141

Audio Article: Breeding Ratios for Chickens and Ducks

142

Ep. 178 How to Incubate Eggs of Mixed Birds Together

143

Ep. 177 Navigate New Antibiotics Guidelines with Veterinary-Client-Patient Relationship

144

Ep. 176 Planning and Preparing a Garden for Spring

145

Ep. 175 Black Farmer Stories with Myriah Towner

146

Ep. 174 How to Start an Agritourism Business to Diversify Farm Income

147

Bonus Episode: "Let's All Keep Chickens!" Book Interview with Dalia Monterroso

148

Ep. 173 Extreme Weather Poultry: How Hot Is Too Hot for Chickens?

149

Ep. 172 Where to Put House Plants So They Thrive

150

Audio Article: Why Is There Still a Seed Shortage?

151

Audio Article: Birds of a Feather Incubate Together

152

Audio Article: Decoding Growing Zones

153

Ep. 171 What Are Brassicas and How Do You Cultivate and Cook Them?

154

Audio Article: What to Know About the New Antibiotics Restriction

155

Ep. 170 Temple Grandin on Living More Sustainably in the New Year

156

Audio Article: Raising Rabbits in Colonies

157

Audio Article: Scrumptious Salt-Rising Bread

158

Ep. 169 Reading Nutrition Labels and Finding Your Healthy Lifestyle

159

Audio Article: Barcelona Olives and Almonds

160

Ep. 168 Chickens: Raising Broilers from Start to Finish

161

Audio Article: Mossin' Annie

162

Ep. 167 Building an Eco-Cabin, Part 1

163

Ep.167 Building an Eco-Cabin, Part 2

164

Audio Article: Bovine Leukemia Virus, A Call to Action

165

Audio Article: Scrapple: Tasty Economy

166

Audio Article: Spill the Beans

167

Ep. 166 Hunting Skills & Ethics

168

Audio Article: Peak Apple-Picking Season

169

Ep. 165 Therapy Chickens

170

Audio Article: Farmsteading Profits Beyond Meat, Eggs, and Vegetables

171

Audio Article: Grandma and Grandpa's Red Wattle Hogs

172

Audio Article: Ancient Grains for Modern Growers

173

Ep. 164 Heritage Breeds of Chickens with the Chicken Ladies

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Ep. 163 Work Horse Breeds for Farmsteading and Forestry

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Ep. 162 Poultry Profits: Offsetting the Cost of Raising Chickens

176

Ep. 161 Preparing Your Bees for Winter

177

Ep. 160 Freshwater Fishing Tips and Strategies

178

Ep. 159 Can You Have Chickens in City Limits?

179

Ep. 158 How to Keep Chickens Warm in Winter

180

Ep. 157 Farmers' Markets

181

Ep. 146 Chick and Chicken Injuries

182

Ep.156 Identifying Poultry and Small Ruminant Diseases

183

Ep.155 Raising Backyard Quail in the City

184

Ep. 152 Chicken Coops

185

Audio Article: Heat Waves and Drought

186

Audio Article: Growing Strawberries

187

Ep. 153 Why Chickens Lay Eggs

188

Ep. 151 Planting Fall Garden Crops

189

Ep. 148 How to Raise Ducks

190

Ep. 150 What Can Chickens Eat?

191

Ep. 149 Herbs for Health and Healing

192

Audio Article: Rainwater Collection Systems

193

Audio Article: How to Choose a Cow Pony

194

Ep. 147 Managing a Mixed Flock

195

Ep. 144 Poultry Eggs

196

Ep. 145 Michelle Schuman: A Female Environmentalist

197

Chickens 101: Hatch Day

198

Ep. 143 Caring for Baby Chicks

199

Ep. 142 How to Be a Natural Beekeeper

200

Ep.136b Make Your Own Seed and Nut Oils

201

Ep.136a Make Your Own Seed and Nut Oils

202

Ep. 141 Chick Illness

203

Ep. 140 Wild and Beautiful Skincare

204

Ep. 137 Poultry Fencing

205

Ep. 139 Preparing for Chicks

206

Ep.138 Chick Incubation

207

Audio Article: Meadow Flowers

208

Audio Article: Kidding Without a Vet

209

Audio Article: Conservation Easements

210

Audio Article: Friendly Geese for Backyard Flocks

211

Ep. 135 Chicken Breeds

212

Ep. 134 Green Transit

213

Audio Article: Herbal Dewormers

214

Audio Article: Goat Vaccinations and Injectables

215

Audio Article: The Controversy of Dehorning

216

Ep. 132 Hosting Solitary Bees

217

Ep. 132 Teaching Sustainability

218

Ep.131 Caring for Chicks

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Audio Article: Outwit Hardworking Beavers

220

Ep. 130b Planning and Building Your Tiny Home

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Ep. 130a Planning and Building Your Tiny Home

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Audio Article: Tractor Tire Repairs Made Easy

223

Audio Article: Starting Your Own Soap Making Business

224

Audio Article: 10 Agritourism Ideas For Your Farm

225

Audio Article: Why Did My Bees Die?

226

Audio Article: Journey to Eden

227

Audio Article: My Little Free Seed Library

228

Audio Article: Peter Larson

229

Ep. 129 Fresh Banana Leaves and Indigenous Knowledge

230

Audio Article: How to Prevent Common Tomato Diseases

231

Audio Article: Spineless Cacti

232

Ep 128b Endangered and Unusual Poultry Breeds

233

Ep 128a Endangered and Unusual Poultry Breeds

234

Ep.127 Herbal Business and Holistic Dental Care

235

Audio Article: Pecan Trees

236

Ep 126 Urban Preparedness

237

Audio Article: Solitary Bees

238

Audio Article: Farming with Disability

239

Audio Article: The Steaks are High

240

Audio Article: Flood Management

241

Audio Article: The Significance of Soil Health

242

Audio Article: Cultivating Buckwheat

243

Audio Article: Build a Better Herd

244

Audio Article: Pack a Pocketknife

245

Ep.124 Natural Health and Beauty for Skin and Hair

246

Ep. 123 Welcome to Herbal Content Cottage

247

Ep. 122 The Intrepid Ivy Association

248

Audio Article: Creole Healing Herbs

249

Audio Article: Shetland Wool

250

Audio Article: Natural Funerals

251

Ep. 121 Keep Your Flock Safe From Predators

252

Audio Article: Coffee Fermentation

253

Ep. 120 Crop Swap LA

254

Audio Article: Easy, Fast Flatbread

255

Audio Article: Selecting a Smoker

256

Audio Article: Rustic 'Red Fife' Wheat

257

Audio Article: Start an At-Home Antiques Business

258

Audio Article: First Nations Gardens

259

Ep. 119 Hunting Small Wildlife

260

Ep. 118 Keeping Roosters

261

Ep. 117 Stewarding Heirloom Wheats

262

Audio Article: Fermenting Compost

263

Audio Article: What is Organic?

264

Ep. 116 Pasturing Geese and Ducks

265

Audio Article: Mangel-Wurzel

266

Audio Article: Guinea Hogs

267

Audio Article: Creating a Love of Food in Kids

268

Ep. 115 Introduction to Seed Saving

269

Heirlooms and Herbals: Tulsi

270

Ep. 88 Heirlooms and Herbals: Rose

271

Ep. 89 Heirlooms and Herbals: Mullein

272

Ep. 91 Heirlooms and Herbals: Marshmallow

273

Ep. 114 Feeding and Housing Quail

274

Ep. 113 Bison Ranching

275

Audio Article: Culturally Significant Seed Saving

276

Audio Article: City Chickens

277

Ep. 112 Herbal Health

278

Audio Article: Saving Our Seeds, Saving Ourselves

279

Audio Article: Plant Breeding Basics

280

Audio Article: Making the Most of Mulberries

281

Audio Article: Poitou Donkeys

282

Ep. 111 – Treating Splay Leg and Bumblefoot

283

Ep. 110 Green Death

284

Ep. 109 - Chickens and the Garden

285

Audio Article: Raise Pastured Geese and Ducks

286

Ep. 108 The Artisan Herbalist

287

Audio Article: Indigenous Corn Cultivars

288

Audio Article: Beginning Sheep Shearing

289

Audio Article: Comfort Foods-Potato Paradise

290

Audio Article: Homegrown Wheat Project

291

Ep. 107 What is Brooding

292

Ep. 106 Crafting Quality Cabins

293

Audio Article - Cooking with Pork Skin

294

Ep. 105 Candling and Embryos

295

Audio Article - Challenges with Cultivars

296

Audio Article - Bloomington Community Orchard

297

Audio Article - Luffa

298

Hank's Hacks, Ep. 3 - Sheep!

299

Audio Article - Black Soldier Flies

300

Ep. 104 Raising Chicks

301

Audio Article: Forest Restoration

302

Ep 103 What's In An Egg

303

Hank's Hacks, Ep. 2 - Why Homestead

304

Audio Article: Populate Your Property with Pomegranates

305

Ep. 102 The Right Chickens for You

306

Finding Chicks

307

Virginia Free Farm

308

Handcrafted Soaps

309

Hank's Hacks

310

Protecting the Prairie Chicken

311

Sheep and Goat Care

312

Broiler Chickens

313

The Magic of Koji

314

Chicken Behaviour

315

Coops, Brooders, and Chicken Houses

316

Canning and Food Preservation

317

Caring for Layers

318

Influencing Change

319

Adventures in Agritourism

320

Ep. 78 Sheep and Their Fleeces, Part 3

321

Ep. 78 Sheep and Their Fleeces, Part 2

322

Ep. 78 Sheep and Their Fleece, Part I

323

Ep 76 Conversations on Home Brewing and the History of Beer

324

Ep 75 Seeking Quality CBD Oil

325

Ep 74 pt 2 Soil Revival

326

Ep. 74 Soil Revival

327

Ep. 73 Waterfowl Conservation

328

Ep. 72 Talking Turkey

329

Ep. 71 Upland Game Birds

330

Ep. 70 Anti-Inflammatory Lifestyle

331

Ep. 69 Heritage Pigs

332

Ep. 68 Women's Hormonal Health and Fertility

333

Ep. 67 Slow Flowers

334

Ep. 66 Guineas as Guardians

335

Ep. 65 Fermentation

336

Ep. 87 Yarrow

337

Ep. 64 Landscaping with Goats

338

Ep. 63 Pastured Chicken Nutrition

339

Ep. 62 Polyface Rotational Farming

340

Ep. 61 Green Automobiles

341

Ep 55.2 Incubation Check-In

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Ep. 60 Chickens in Permaculture

343

Ep. 59 Vermicomposting

344

Ep 55.1 Incubation Check-In

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Ep. 58 Garden Planning for Food Preservation

346

Ep. 57 Bottle Feeding Livestock

347

Ep. 56 Natural Building

348

State of Mother 2019

349

Ep. 55 Chicken Keeping in School

350

Ep. 54 Grant Writing

351

Ep. 53 Heritage Breeds

352

Ep. 52 Cold Weather Chickens

353

Ep. 51 Tiny Homes and Intentional Living

354

Ep. 50 Men's Herbal Health

355

Ep. 49 Game Hunting Pt 2

356

Ep. 49 Game Hunting

357

Ep. 48 Women in Farming - Sponsored by DR Power Equipment

358

Ep. 47 Bread Making: From No-Knead to Sour Dough

359

Ep. 46 Building Soil

360

Ep. 45 Industrial Hemp

361

Ep. 44 Permaculture Ethics

362

Ep. 42 Aquaponics at Nile Valley

363

Ep. 41 Off-Grid Preppers

364

Ep. 40 Grains for Your Health

365

Ep. 39 Natural Skincare

366

Ep. 38 From Lambs to Llamas Pt.2

367

Ep. 38 From Lambs to Llamas: Raising Livestock for Fiber

368

Ep. 37 Graft a Better World

369

Ep. 36 Sensitivities and Gluten

370

Ep. 35 Wellness Garden

371

Bees: Profile of a Bee Keeper

372

Ep. 34 Organic Pest Control

373

Ep. 33 Vegetables Love Flowers

374

Ep. 32 Pasture Raising Pork

375

Ep. 31 Live Deliberately

376

Bees: Swarm Essentials

377

Ep. 29 Straight Dope on Cannabis

378

Ep. 28 The Scoop on Poop

379

Ep. 27 Hydrosols

380

Ep. 26 Marvelous Mushrooms

381

Ep. 25 Kefir and Kombucha: Brewing with Bacteria

382

Ep. 24 Ducks on Demand

383

Ep. 23 Making the Most of Older Animals

384

Ep. 22 Writing Urban Ag Policy

385

Ep. 21 Ayurveda

386

Ep. 20 Great Guide to Guinea Fowl

387

Ep. 19 Pt. 2 Leathers and Furs: Preserving Animal Hides

388

Ep. 19 Leathers and Furs: Preserving Animal Hides

389

Bees: Harvest Your Honey

390

Ep. 17 Poultry Breeds and Species

391

Ep. 16 Cool Coops

392

Ep. 15 Order from the Butcher Block

393

Ep. 14 Get to Know Goats

394

Ep. 13 Succession Gardening

395

Ep. 12 Profit with Poultry

396

Mini - The Nature of Things

397

Ep. 11 Craft Distilling

398

Mini 2 "Spoon Man" Made It at the Fair

399

Ep. 10 Green Weddings

400

Ep. 09 Herbs for Your Teacup

401

Ep. 08 Common Flock Problems

402

Ep. 07 Get Started with Chickens

403

Bees: Beeginning With Bees

404

Mini 1 - Dr. Green

405

Ep. 05 Charcuterie in the City

406

Ep. 04 Sustainable Energy Inside City Limits

407

Ep. 03 Keeping Urban Chickens

408

Ep. 02 Favorite Medicinal Plants

409

Bees: Bees and Homesteading