Associations
Cheese Making
Cooking & Food Preserving
General Livestock pages
Cows & Cattle
Equines
Gamebirds
Goats
Llamas & Alpacas
Poultry
Rabbits
Sheep
Gardens and Such
Fiber
Fun Things!
Homesteading Homepages
Homesteading-Useful Sites
Magazines & Catalogs & Suppliers
Page Making Hints & Graphics
Flying

Associations

American Dairy Goat Association

American Romney Breeders Association

American Rabbit Breeders Association

American Sheep Industry Association

Jacob Sheep Breeders Association

The American Jersey Cattle Association

American Shetland Pony Club

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Cheese Making

Fias Co Farm
At Fias Co Farm we concentrate on homesteading, raising quality LaMancha dairy goats, cheesemaking and graphic design. Our Web page contains information on all these subjects, recipes, "how-tos" and more.

New England Cheese Supply
An on line catalog of all cheese making supplies, including cultures, presses, kits, recipes and lots more.

CheeseNet
The internet cheese information resource.

Real California Cheese
Cheese making site, Check out the virtual tour for cheese making.

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Cooking & Food Preserving

Epicurious
The taste of the Web, searchable recipes from Gourmet and Bon Appetit, one of my favorite places.

Ice Cream Parlor
A place dedicated to frozen desserts of all kinds, lots of recipes (even Butter Pecan!)

The Kitchen Link -Jams, Jellies, Preserving
Slews of links and recipes about storing, and preserving foods. Lots of recipes for using garden produce, such as fruit and herbal vinegar, sauces, dressings and more.

Real Food for Real People
How about a recipe a day? Real Food will e-mail you a favorite recipe a day to tickle your taste buds.

Mix Recipes
100's of mix recipes so you can work up a quick supper after a day in the garden or on the farm.

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General Livestock pages

Agriculture Farm and Farming Search Engine
To search on Agriculture related stuff without all the chaff.

AgriSurf!
Place to see lots of home pages on Agriculture and add yours.

Pucks Farm FAQ
List of discussion questions frequently asked about farms, good for teaching post farm visit.

Breeds of Livestock - Oklahoma State University
Extensive information on breeds of cattle, swine, sheep, goats, horses, poultry, llamas, and other farm animals. Good pictures and history. Check out the Jacob and Romney sheep or the Highland and Jersey cattle.

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Cows & Cattle

Youngs Farm
A diversified Jersey farm, worth taking a look.

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Equines

Rural Heritage
Lots of information on Ox, Horses, Mules, and Donkeys, and using them for farming.

Mule Home Page
All you ever wanted to know about mules, history, pictures, and information.

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Gamebirds

Ringneck Pheasants
A nearly complete guide to raising and hatching Pheasants.

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Goats

Fias Co Farm
At Fias Co Farm we concentrate on homesteading, raising quality LaMancha dairy goats, cheesemaking and graphic design. Our Web page contains information on all these subjects, recipes, "how-tos" and more.

Tyny Goat
Lots of information on Pygmy goat raising and innovative ideas about building feeders, hay racks and salt dispensers.

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Llamas & Alpacas

Charismatic Llamas
Good pictures of llamas, includes links to llama and alpaca pages, good variety of sites.

Chase Tavern Aplacas
Good information on raising alpacas, many photos, located in Maine.

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Poultry

The Coop
A good resource on all kinds of fowl.

Feathersite
If you need to identify chicks this is your site, pictures of chicks will assist you.

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Rabbits


Betty Chu's home page

Here is the place for lots of gorgeous English Angoras.

The English Angora Resource
A resource for English Angora fanciers loaded with breed info.

The Bunny Thymes
Information on Bunnies as pets, lots of links to other bunny pages.

"Tiny R" the Bunny
Cute story about "Tiny R" a little black rabbit that was found abandoned in the road and found a home.

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Sheep

FishWhistle Farm
A Romney sheep farm in Western Oregon.

Swallow Lane Farm & Fiberworks
Information on the history of Jacob sheep, raising them and some pictures of Jacob sheep.

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Gardens and Such

Maine Extension Service Maine Zones
If you are in Maine, this map of Maine hardiness zones is large enough to see, unlike most of the zone maps where Maine is tucked up in the corner too small to see.

Lawn Garden
Find out what zone you are in, just pick your state and it will tell you the zones.

National Arbor Day Foundation
Just input your zip code and this site will give you your zone.

Kitchen Garden
Projects tips and articles for your produce, learn how to make a garlic braid.

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Fiber

Natural Cotton Colours Inc
Fox Fibre is the forerunner in growing and using natural colored cotton.

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Fun Things!

Wolves vs Sheep
See if you can get into the hall of fame by placing the wolves and sheep where the sheep are safe.

Fling the Cow
Cow on a catapult game, see how you score.

Peep Surgery
Ever wonder what happens when those marshmallow "Peeps" get separated, Well here's your chance to find out!

Catch the leaves
Catch the leaves, see how expert you are at herding a goat around to eat leaves.

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Homesteading Homepages

The Carla Emery Website
Site of the author of The Encyclopedia of Country Living.

Ledgewood Consulting.
Domicile of the Homestead Chat-Room. Look around at Paul's plans for his new homestead including the letters about his innovative plan for building his own foraging grounds. Check out his journal and track his progress on Ledgewood.

Peace and Carrots Farm.
Peace and Carrots Farm was established in 1987. In 1989 the CSA was started, making it one of the oldest CSA's in Vermont. We are proud t call ourselves homesteaders. We live in an underground house back in the woods and utilize a number of alternative systems. I like to surf the net on cold or rainy days and have quite a collection of links for you to explore.

Sonrise
Sonrise is a place to relax and read about the homesteader's lifestyle; there are stores of animals, gardening, and woodworking with photos.

Thyme for Ewe Farm
At Thyme for Ewe Farm, located here in Maine, you will find lots of critters, gardening and workshops to help you start your homestead.

Beulah Land Soaps
A Cottage industry making Handcrafted Soaps with Natural Ingredients

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Homesteading-Useful Sites

Frugal by Choice
A great website devoted to helping you save money, make money, and stretch the money you already have. Don't forget your free subscription to Heart & Home newsletter.

State Partners, USDA
Find out about your extension service. Just click on your state and your homestate extension information will pop up.

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Magazines & Catalogs

Country Side Magazine
Promoting self reliance and simple life style with an emphasis on home food production.

Cumberland Store
Old time merchandise in endless variety for man and beast.

Lehmans Home Page
In their own words: "Serving the Amish and others without electricity with simple products for simple self sufficient living.

Halcyon Yarns
A yarn and supply company right here in Maine, lots of equipment for weavers, spinners and knitters.

Storey Publishing
How to Books for Country Living. A good source for lots of references.

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Page Making Hints & Graphics

Absolute Background Textures Archive 2800+ free Tiling Background Textures
Tired of looking for backgrounds? This page has backgrounds all indexed, by type and color.

HTML Goodies Page
So you're trying to build a home page, Huh? Well this is the place to put your bookmark! This page will help you with beginning to advanced page building. Many graphics to get you started, and tutorials to help you finish. Take a look first, before you get too frustrated.

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Flying

Don't tell anyone but we love to fly also!

Cessna Home Page
Lots of info on flying and Cessna aircraft.

Teledyne Continental Motors
JIC, you never know when you might want them.

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