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GRIT is a bi-monthly magazine distributed throughout the United States and Canada that celebrates country lifestyles of all kinds, while emphasizing the importance of community and stewardship. As North America’s premier rural lifestyle title, GRIT publishes feature-length articles on a broad range of topics that appeal to those already living in the country and those who aspire to get there. Our readers are well-educated, successful and choose to live on the land for many reasons. Most do not depend on their soil for significant income – some choose not to work their land (in the conventional sense) at all. But all share an appreciation for life out where the pavement ends. Source
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| Language | English |
| Country | United States of America |
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Recent Articles
Search ArticlesShowing Rabbits for Beginners
Learn about showing rabbits for beginners with helpful tips when selecting rabbits and what to expect at the show. Showing rabbits is only one reason for raising them, but for some folks it’s the only one. They love the fun and thrill of competing and winning. They enjoy spending a day with friends who have the same interest. They often make show day a family outing, with a tailgate picnic, a fishing trip or local sightseeing.
DIY Rabbit Tractor
Give your pastured rabbits room to roam with this innovative pasture pen setup, a clever DIY rabbit tractor to standard tractors. When my husband and I began teaching homesteading skills at our school, Koviashuvik Local Living School, we knew that locally grown meat would be on the menu. Being excited about all things DIY, we planned to raise the animals ourselves. We wanted critters that would eat what we had — grass and browse — and be efficient about it, so we settled on goats and rabbits.
Lamb Kebab Recipe
Try these delicious marinated lamb shish kebabs. by Adobestock/DoreenB. Photography Try this lamb kebab recipe featuring a flavorful lemon, garlic, and herb marinade. These juicy, grilled lamb skewers are tender, easy to make, and perfect for cookouts. “Uncle Z influenced this dish,” Tara says. “He likes to double or triple the garlic amount, but people might want to go easy on the garlic the first time they prepare it.
How to Prepare Lamb Loin Chops
Lamb loin chops, seared in a cast-iron skillet, are a taste sensation. Learn how to prepare lamb loin chops with garlic, rosemary, thyme, and chanterelle mushrooms. This easy cast-iron recipe is juicy, flavorful, and ready in minutes. Preparing just about any dish in cast-iron cookery makes it better, and this dish is certainly no different.
One Story at a Time
“All that we are is story. … It is what we arrive with. It is all we leave behind. … What comes to matter then is the creation of the best possible story we can while we’re here.
Wild Food Walks - Grit
The male American woodcock became the first clue that winter was metamorphosing into spring. In the predawn murk of a late February morning, when I had just come outside to tend our chickens, I heard “peent, peent, peent” sounds as the avian no doubt strutted and preened for any nearby female. Then he lurched skyward and, achieving maximum height, vocal chirping and wing-generated twittering commenced as he plummeted back to Earth.
How to Use a Scythe to Cut Grass
Learn the best scythe fit for you, how to use a scythe to cut grass quietly, and sharpening a scythe with peening and honing with a hammer and stone. Few people over the age of 8 feel like gangsters with string trimmers in their hands. But when you walk into a field or a weed patch carrying a razor-edged scythe with a blade the length of your arm, you may as well be wearing a sleeve patch that says “I collect debts on behalf of The Gardener.” You don’t even need earplugs.
Sampling Seed Stories
Follow these seed stories from time travelers of a lost world, impossibly brought to the present by small heroes in their own right. Everyone has that topic that’s close to their heart – the one that makes their eyes light up and, once started, is hard to stop talking about. Seeds are that topic for me. Their promise fascinates me: a tiny hard bit turning into a living thing, year after year. I started saving my own heirloom and open-pollinated seeds over 10 years ago.
Types of Animal Traps
Learn all about animal trapping — from common types of animal traps to how to set them. Animal trapping surely began as a means of survival. Native Americans across the continent trapped fur-bearing animals with pits, deadfalls, and snares, and used the furs for warmth and trade and the meat for food. After Europeans arrived in North America, trapping provided furs for mountain men and Native Americans to trade with merchants selling rifles, pistols, knives, food, pots, and blankets.
How to Grow Muscadine Grapes
Learn how to grow muscadine grapes, a beginner-friendly southern native grape, during the muscadine season on a muscadine trellis. Muscadines (Vitis rotundifolia) are the jewel of the South. Well … maybe not the jewel, but here in Georgia, you’d be hard-pressed to find a backyard without at least one vine stretching across a fence, a cattle panel, or some old clothesline that’s somehow still holding on after 30 years.