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		<title>Frugal Homesteading Carnival March 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to the March 2010 Frugal Homesteading Carnival!
Garden
Renee Benzaim presents What is Compost Tea? posted at Compost Tumblers &#38; Compost Making. She notes, &#8220;One good way to make compost tea is to soak compost in water in a bucket  for a few days and then strain the liquid.  You can then dilute it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://frugalhomesteading.com/blog/frugal-homesteading-carnival-march-2010/2010/03/</link>
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		<title>Keeping Bees for Honey, Hobby</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve never tried keeping bees on my own, but have thought about beginning beekeeping for some time. Local honey is incredibly beneficial nutritionally speaking, not to mention delicious. Additionally, I would be able to harvest honey from my own hives without heating it (raw honey has the most benefits). However, we&#8217;ve lived within a homeowners&#8217; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://frugalhomesteading.com/blog/keeping-bees-honey-hobby/2010/03/</link>
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		<title>Mortgage Escrow Account Errors</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My most recent mortgage statement for our rental property (originally our primary residence)  included the annual escrow review, and I was surprised to see that they projected a shortfall between the escrow expenses (taxes, insurance, and allowable reserve) and my monthly escrow deposits. In fact, the difference was such that the mortgage company was raising [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://frugalhomesteading.com/blog/mortgage-escrow-account-errors/2010/02/</link>
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		<title>Debt Snowball: Making Progress</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve progressed tremendously on our debt snowball since I first posted about using the debt snowball method to get out of debt. When we started using this method to pay off debt (very important for living a frugal, homesteading lifestyle), we owed more than $44,000 to banks, credit card companies, private student loans and a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://frugalhomesteading.com/blog/debt-snowball/2010/02/</link>
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		<title>Frugal Gardening Tips</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Many Americans are turning to gardening as a way to raise some of their own food over the summer and ease the strain of high grocery prices, which are affecting more and more families on tight budgets. Candace at Garden of Blessings suggests Gardening for Snowflakes, which those clued in to the Snowflake idea recognize [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://frugalhomesteading.com/blog/frugal-gardening-tips/2009/03/</link>
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		<title>Preparing for Bank Runs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Are bank runs in our future? While much of the news is being conveniently swept under the proverbial rug, the fact is that many national and international banks are facing problems. As the money supply tightens, and banks see their credit ratings drop, you can be sure trouble is brewing.
As James Wesley Rawles at Survival [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://frugalhomesteading.com/blog/preparing-for-bank-runs/2009/02/</link>
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		<title>Caring for Pullets in Winter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our new pullets have been braving the cold weather and snowy days quite well. In taking care of our not-yet-laying hens, I&#8217;ve learned a few things about winter care for a small backyard poultry flock. These tips are for adult birds; any very young birds will likely need to be moved indoors to a heat-lamp-warmed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://frugalhomesteading.com/blog/caring-for-pullets-in-winter/2009/02/</link>
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		<title>New Laying Hens</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Saturday, we brought home six new laying hens &#8212; pullets, really, that will hopefully start laying in a few weeks. These particular birds are Rhode Islands Whites, like the Rhode Island Reds, I was told, just white. While they aren&#8217;t as cute as my sisters&#8217; brown speckled Barred Rock mix hens, they will hopefully [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://frugalhomesteading.com/blog/new-laying-hens/2009/01/</link>
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		<title>How Did People Survive the Great Depression?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My husband, a construction contractor, has no more work after he finishes the addition he&#8217;s working on. After several years in the business, he is looking for a new job. Several friends and family members who live in our same town are unemployed as of the past few weeks. And then today Survival Blog predicts [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://frugalhomesteading.com/blog/how-did-people-survive-the-great-depression/2009/01/</link>
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		<title>Self Employment Taxes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Self-employment taxes are only slightly more complicated than filing ordinary income reported on W-2s. I was expecting tax time to be really complicated, but with a little work and some free tax software, it was a breeze. 
I filed a schedule C for my 2008 freelance writing income, simply adding up my freelance income and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://frugalhomesteading.com/blog/self-employment-taxes/2009/01/</link>
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