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		<title>The Morrill Act and What It Means for You</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Don&#8217;t go scrambling for the newspapers &#8211; the Morrill Act was signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln on July 2, 1862, establishing the land-grant colleges. Morrill Act
Under this legislation, the states received thousands of acres of land (or &#8217;scrip&#8217; for federal lands in other states &#8211; New York&#8217;s scrip was, believe it or not, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kitchencountereconomics.com/2010/07/21/the-morrill-act-and-what-it-means-for-you/</link>
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		<title>Ding! Time to get a jump on a fall garden</title>
		<description><![CDATA[OK, it’s mid-July here at Chez Siberia and it’s been horrifically hot. And dry. And the garden is not, shall we say, looking its best. We’re still harvesting but there are parts of beds that have been picked over, harvested out. There are lettuces that have bolted. (the photo above is basil &#8211; which does [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kitchencountereconomics.com/2010/07/17/ding-time-to-get-a-jump-on-a-fall-garden/</link>
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		<title>So, You Want a Farmers&#8217; Market</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ I was reading a post on Facebook the other day with regard to farmers markets and one commenter wrote that every town needed one and that her city did not. 
On the face of it, that sounds like something out of a &#8217;say wha?&#8221; sort of experience. Doesn&#8217;t every place have a farmers market? [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kitchencountereconomics.com/2010/07/14/so-you-want-a-farmers-market/</link>
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		<title>Raising Small Livestock:  The Devil&#8217;s in the Details</title>
		<description><![CDATA[  A lot of people would like to raise some sort of livestock &#8211; whether it&#8217;s chickens or pigs or lambs or whatever &#8211; but they are stopped by lack of experience and fear. Actually, raising animals is pretty simple (not necessarily easy &#8211; which is a whole different deal):
&#8211; Make sure they have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kitchencountereconomics.com/2010/07/11/raising-small-livestock-the-devils-in-the-details/</link>
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		<title>More Brisket BBQ &#8211; Asian Pulled Beef</title>
		<description><![CDATA[All pulled beef looks the same, so I&#8217;m not going to give you a photo essay on that. Go here:
Pulled BBQ
But I do have a totally &#8220;Aunt Toby Sticks Her head in the Fridge and Sees What Comes Out&#8221; sort of BBQ. We had guests coming on Friday night. I also had to go to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kitchencountereconomics.com/2010/07/03/more-brisket-bbq-asian-pulled-beef/</link>
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		<title>Vintage Sewing Patterns &#8211; Thoughts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are a lot of sewers out there who buy, collect and use vintage patterns (and no matter what the online retailers call them, I&#8217;m not sure you can consider Nolan Miller &#8220;Dynasty&#8221; sewing patterns from the 1980s to be exactly &#8216;vintage&#8217; but that&#8217;s a discussion for another time). Everyone looks for something different. Some [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kitchencountereconomics.com/2010/06/27/vintage-sewing-patterns-thoughts/</link>
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		<title>Sheep:  From the Hooves Up</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As Aunt Toby said before, there are a couple of items in terms of raising sheep that if you get them right, everything else pretty much falls into place. One of the most important is keeping hooves trimmed. Years ago, I attended a talk by a ruminant specialist from Cornell, who had done a lot [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kitchencountereconomics.com/2010/06/26/sheep-from-the-hooves-up/</link>
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		<title>Twill, Baby, Twill</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Recently, I read on another blog that I frequent the author&#8217;s question about what sort of fabric he&#8217;d gone and bought to make himself a pair of pants. Male Pattern Boldness
 He thought it might be &#8217;some sort of twill&#8217;. Several of us recognized immediately that what he had was not twill but I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kitchencountereconomics.com/2010/06/23/twill-baby-twill/</link>
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		<title>Red Dress Redux</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ For those folks who requested an actual shot of the dress from this post because it disappeared into the laundry before I could do it, here you go. Apologies for the armpit shot, though it does give you an idea of what a honkin&#8217; broad back I have (courtesy of genetics, weight lifting et [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kitchencountereconomics.com/2010/06/19/red-dress-redux/</link>
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		<title>Want Sheep? Learn This.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So, you are thinking about raising sheep. Or, maybe it’s goats. It’s probably NOT cattle because just the thought of raising a cow or a beef animal is so daunting – we’re talking a creature that ends up weighing almost as much as a small car. 
If one of those babies steps on your foot, [...]]]></description>
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