Country & Rural Living Articles

If we were to take count of all the different blades we use around the small home farm, no doubt the number of edged tools would be in the dozens, if not hundreds.  For everything from food preparation to wood working to yard maintenance to daily farm operations such as cutting fire wood, we use cutting tools constantly on the farm.

Varco Pruden’s (VP) steel systems construction products include frames – some examples include a rigid frame, continuous truss, continuous beam, and hybrids of these and others – roofs, walls, and panels for you to choose from. You can also choose from plenty of finishes and accessories, including major items such as facades, skylights, windows, doors, and louvers, and a wide variety of special-use items.

Larry French says he’s been around horses his whole life. Now, he’s helping others experience what he calls “The Magic and Mystery of the Horse.”

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ATVsArtic Cat TBX 700iGT

This ATV model from Arctic Cat offers a wide variety of several features to help you get around and get things done on your acreage. Just some of these include on the fly two-wheel and four-wheel drive with differential lock, electronic power steering, a tilting cargo box, side cargo compartments, front-steel speedtrack, fully-independent suspension, a lower profile (but still sporting 11 inches of ground clearance), and automotive-style paint designed to keep your ATV looking as good as the day it arrived on your acreage.

As you get ready to ring in the New Year, you may want to wring what you can out of the Old—in the form of tax breaks.

Many move to the country thinking that rural life will not be as fast-paced and stressful as city life.  That may be true in some ways, but the one thing that our family has found from living in the country is that rural life requires more planning than city life. When we live in the country, even if on a small farm, we decide what happens and when it happens.  Most of the time, things go better when they happen according to a well-thought out plan.

The name “Tacky” is derived from the English word for “cheap” or “common”. For most of their history, Marsh Tackies were the most common horse in the swampy and marshy Low country region of coastal South Carolina and Georgia, and were used for riding, pulling, and anything else horsepower was needed for. They were found as far north as Myrtle Beach and as far south as St. Simon’s Island, Georgia. As the car replaced the horse, the Marsh Tacky began to disappear. Until recently the breed was thought to have become extinct during the 1980’s and 1990’s.

Baby clothes quilts are great for saving and reusing precious items from a child's formative years.  In this article we ask Janell Ayres, whose baby clothes quilts were featured in Parent's magazine, her process in creating these wonderful pieces of cherished art.

There are a lot of different lines of snowmobiles out there, but for the Acreage owner we chose the Utility-style. These are the most functional for many of the various chores acreage owners perform around their properties, and we know the chores can’t be overlooked just because there’s snow on the ground.

Artic Cat Bearcat 570XT