• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to footer

Homestead on the Range

Abundant Living in Flyover Country

  • The Lifestyle
  • The Farm
  • The Garden
  • The Skills
  • The Business
  • The Sunflower State

Nutrition

Boron in Plants

January 18, 2021 by hsotr

Boron deficiency

To say that boron is important to plants would be the height of understatement. To put it more plainly, plants simply would not exist without boron. The reason boron is so crucial to plant health is that it is involved in ion exchange and the movement of other nutrients across cell membranes. Without boron, plants […]

Filed Under: The Farm Tagged With: Field Crops, Fruit, Nutrition, Ornamental Plants, Pastures, Plant Health, Soil, Vegetables

Aluminum in Plants

January 11, 2021 by hsotr

Aluminum in Plants

Most people probably don’t think of aluminum as a key nutrient for field, garden, or orchard crops, and indeed scientists don’t consider it essential for plant growth. Nevertheless, it appears to have an important role in keeping pathogens in check. In particular, we know that aluminum helps prevent late blight in potatoes, and it appears […]

Filed Under: The Farm Tagged With: Cover Crops, Field Crops, Fruit, Nutrition, Ornamental Plants, Plant Health, Soil, Vegetables

Heavy Horses

September 23, 2020 by hsotr

Heavy Horses

Heavy Horses is probably one of the most comprehensive yet beginner-friendly draft horse resources on the web.

Filed Under: The Farm Tagged With: Animal Health, Breeding, Draft Animals, Horses, Links, Livestock, Nutrition, Pastures, Stewardship

Food Ingredient Labels: A Glossary

June 17, 2020 by hsotr

Food Ingredient Labels: A Glossary

Find out how common food ingredients are derived, their potential benefits, and their risks.

Filed Under: The Lifestyle Tagged With: Food, Glossary, Health & Fitness, Nutrition

Food Cravings and What They Mean

December 2, 2019 by hsotr

Food Cravings and What They Mean

How to decipher what your body is trying to tell you.

Filed Under: The Lifestyle Tagged With: Food, Health & Fitness, Nutrition

Getting Started With Livestock Part 3: Diet

August 19, 2019 by hsotr

Getting Started with Livestock Part 3: Diet

Keeping your animals on pasture obviously has financial benefits, and you’ve probably heard of the numerous health benefits, as well. Even nonruminants like pigs and poultry can derive a great portion of their diet from the pasture, although they will need some type of supplemental feed. So how do you make it all work? Pasture […]

Filed Under: The Farm Tagged With: Animal Health, Cattle, Dairy, Goats, Horses, Livestock, Nutrition, Pastures, Poultry, Sheep, Stewardship, Swine

Pros and Cons of Drinking Coffee

March 27, 2019 by hsotr

Pros and Cons of Drinking Coffee

Is drinking coffee good for your health? Or is it bad for you? Often, we seem to receive conflicting information on this subject from the media. And while there are good reasons we probably really don’t want a straight answer to the question…some of us are just too curious to resist the urge to dig […]

Filed Under: The Lifestyle Tagged With: Food, Health & Fitness, Nutrition

Why the Human Body Needs Cholesterol

February 25, 2019 by hsotr

Why the Human Body Needs Cholesterol

The crucial heath roles of a much-maligned nutrient.

Filed Under: The Lifestyle Tagged With: Food, Health & Fitness, Nutrition

Beef Tenderness and the Shear Force Test

February 6, 2019 by hsotr

Beef Tenderness and the Shear Force Test

Tenderness is critical to the meat-eating experience. Nobody enjoys sinking their teeth into a tough steak. A tried-and-true method of testing beef tenderness is the plain old taste test. These days, however, there are ways to objectively measure the precise tenderness of a cut of beef. The Warner-Bratzler Shear Force Test The Warner-Bratzler shear force […]

Filed Under: The Farm Tagged With: Animal Health, Breeding, Cattle, Food, Livestock, Nutrition

Beef Cattle Talk: A Glosssary

October 17, 2018 by hsotr

Beef Cattle Talk: A Glossary

From 3 in 1 to heterosis to yield grade, all those confusing cattle terms you have wondered about.

Filed Under: The Farm Tagged With: Animal Health, Breeding, Cattle, Glossary, Livestock, Marketing, Nutrition, The West

  • « Go to Previous Page
  • Go to page 1
  • Go to page 2
  • Go to page 3
  • Go to page 4
  • Interim pages omitted …
  • Go to page 8
  • Go to Next Page »

Before Footer

Footer

Stay Posted

Enter your email address to receive new posts via email.

Topics

Animal Health Birdwatching Books Breeding Cattle Dairy Dogs Draft Animals Enterprises Faith Family Field Crops Food Fruit Goats Health & Fitness History Horses Insect Pests Links Livestock Marketing Music Native Americans Nature Nutrition Ornamental Plants Outdoors Pastures Pets Planning Plant Health Poultry Quotes Scripture Passages Sheep Small-Scale Farming Soil Stewardship Supplies The West Travel Vegetables Water Weather

More Resources

  • Our Books
  • Our Guides
  • Our Newsletters
  • Quick Start Pages
  • The Gallery
  • The Homestead Bookshelf
  • Your Path to Abundant Living in Flyover Country

Affiliate Disclosure

Throughout this site you will find affiliate links to items that we have read or used and highly recommend. If you decide to use the links to make a purchase, please be aware that we will receive a small compensation. For more information, please read our affiliate disclosure. Thank you!

  • About
  • Affiliate Disclosure
  • Contact Us
  • Privacy Policy
  • Sitemap
  • Terms of Use
  • Updates

Copyright © 2013–2021 All rights reserved. No content on this site may be reproduced in any way without prior written permission. By using this site you are agreeing to our terms of use.