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		<title>The Government Does It Again!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m on a roll this week. The government is using some heavy handed tactics to thwart small business. This time it is against a 7 year old selling lemonade! Read all about it here. Guess she&#8217;s cutting into the big business of carbonated corn syrup drinks. And those health inspectors have to justify their existence [...]]]></description>
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		<title>That&#8217;s right! MORE Government Harassment of Small Farms</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This just in from Walter and NoNAIS: The Bureaucrats Come Calling…. Recounted by Doreen Hannes After more than five years of full time fighting and agitating for food freedom and the complete abandonment of NAIS or NAIS like things, I finally received a visit from compliance officers. What officers, you ask? They were Missouri Department [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://solarfamilyfarm.com/?p=1563</link>
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		<title>More Heavy Handed Government Attacks on Raw Milk</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From our friend, George, in Southern California&#8230; And the video of the actual raid in progress (note the guns drawn) along with an interview with the coordinator of the raw food club&#8230; Are you outraged yet?]]></description>
		<link>http://solarfamilyfarm.com/?p=1557</link>
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		<title>Clabber Bleu Cheese</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A new-to-me site with some excellent cheese making information can be found here. I&#8217;m particularly interested in the lactic based bleu cheese as well as other lactic (non-rennet) cheeses as they can be made with no purchased ingredients. Hat tip to Linuxboy for linking this great site from his Cheese Forum profile!]]></description>
		<link>http://solarfamilyfarm.com/?p=1553</link>
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		<title>How Lois Ran Away: The Story of Our First Family Milk Cow</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a re-post of an article I wrote at Homestead Blogger&#8217;s Front Porch a few years ago. An updated note: we have found that having a family cow has enabled us to improve our poor land far more rapidly than we ever could without one. Lois has, in fact, made us far more independent. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://solarfamilyfarm.com/?p=1546</link>
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		<title>How Factory Farming Destroys the Economy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Who knew farmers (corn, feed lot, farm cooperatives) were using risky financial vehicles to stay afloat! That&#8217;s right. Documented right here in this article from the Wall Street Journal. It was the government, during the last Great Depression, that ruined the small family farm through bad policy and created the need for farmers to borrow [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://solarfamilyfarm.com/?p=1542</link>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Alive!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our bodies are filled with all sorts of beneficial living micro organisms. So says a gastroenterologist in Minnesota. This article from The New York Times Science section documents the healing of a digestively damaged woman with fecal material from her husband. How much did that cost? Yikes! Did it ever occur to this doctor and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://solarfamilyfarm.com/?p=1538</link>
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		<title>Morrison on Feeding Soy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[People freak out a bit these days on feeding soy to farm animals. We try to avoid it if we can as it is genetically modified to resist Round-Up. But it is very difficult to find alternative protein supplements that are cost effective. I often read through my 1956 copy of Morrison&#8217;s Feeds &#38; Feeding. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://solarfamilyfarm.com/?p=1527</link>
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		<title>Aunt Linne&#8217;s Farm Pictures</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Aunt Linne (a.k.a. &#8220;Aunt LinLin&#8221;) came to visit. She took many pictures of our little farm. Here are a few: Many chicks are hatching. Four hens a laying. New guard dogs guarding. Handsome roosters prancing. Two piggies munching. Five kids a playing. One darling girl! Big birthday party. All kids a growing. Rain is a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://solarfamilyfarm.com/?p=1510</link>
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		<title>April Civics Lesson (and Homeschool Math too)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just love teaching multiple concepts at once. This video covers money, budgeting, and fractions as well as some basics on our government:]]></description>
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