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<title>Barbara Adams - EzineArticles Expert Author</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Barbara Adams is the author of "Micro Eco-Farming: Prospering from Backyard to Small Acreage in Partnership with the Earth," "The New Agritourism, Hosting Community and Tourists on Your Farm," and "Girls Love Softball" for 8 to 12-year-old girls. She also hosts the website, Great Group Activities: A Treasury of Fun and Educational Activities for All Ages. People are turning backyards, urban lots, and small acreages into fun, profitable, family-friendly earth-restoring livelihoods -- from spare time to full time. Micro Eco-Farming covers this trend. And farmers of all acreage sizes are making more money and enjoying their farms more with agritourism, ... ]]></description>
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<title>Backyard Farming? Consider This Often Forgotten Miniature Livestock and Its Valuable Crops</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Backyard farming? Consider this often forgotten mini-livestock.]]></description>
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<title>Group Activity Ideas</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Use sound. Specific music and background sounds can bring on calm, harmony, excitement, boldness, whatever your group activity's needs are. Rock beats induce our inner warrior or desire to be physically active, while light classical and nature's sounds bring out our ability to be at peace with our surroundings.]]></description>
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<title>How to Make Money Farming</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Wondering how to make money farming? Surprisingly, one type of farm business is growing and doing well, with expert predictions that its growth will continue. Doesn't matter if you own hundreds of generational farm acres or are a city dweller. You, too, can make money farming.]]></description>
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<title>Growing Grapes Sustainably For Fun Or Profit</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 03 May 2010 21:25:09 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Growing grapes can be a prosperous niche for the small scale farmer or even backyard farmer when this common fruit is turned into a unique niche. Growing grapes organically or sustainably is a start. But even that broad niche can be more focused.]]></description>
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<title>The May Day Holiday - Yesterday &amp; Today</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2010 11:15:43 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The May Day holiday has more of a history than some realize. And it's making a comeback today.]]></description>
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<title>Finding Others to Join You in Shared Interest Group Activities</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 14:01:44 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Shared interest group activities (such as cooking clubs and reading groups) are great fun as long as the chemistry of the group participants works well. Here's how to help your gatherings succeed.]]></description>
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<title>Chefs, Culinary Organizations, Eco-Tourists and Micro Eco-Farms Are Merging For Green Success</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 11:16:12 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Chefs and local farmers are merging for eco-profit. This is because agritourism is the fastest growing segment of all of the tourism segments. Along with that, the already established culinary tourism destinations and cooking vacations are also on the rise.]]></description>
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<title>Plan to Start a Farm Or Help Your Farm Prosper? Consider Agritourism and This Important Tip</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 15:04:11 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[It's heartening to hear about more and more farms boosting their incomes -- sometimes even by six digits a year -- just by opening up for a few weekends of the year for agritourism - hosting community and tourists on the farm. We've spent years hearing about farms succumbing, and now, as Wall Street struggles, farms of all sizes that add an agritourism element are reporting financial success.    Agritourism (sometimes spelled "agrotoursim") examples include giving tours to young school children for around $5 a head, holding harvest festivals for your main crop such as sunflowers, melons or ...]]></description>
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<title>Make Extra Money Or Start a Home Business From Your Kitchen, Garden, Hobby Or Craft</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2008 13:38:11 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Today, society is demanding - in huge force - items that have one or more of the following qualities: locally grown, organic, one-of-a-kind, heirloom family recipe, eco-friendly, natural health promoting, handcrafted, homemade or artisan. And these products can be for bath, home care or a food product. See the real life examples below.]]></description>
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<title>Farmers, Work at Home Farm Spouses, and Rural Communities Can Make More Money</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2008 08:20:57 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[In fact, the family farm has been saved in some cases, and some have become very prosperous from the method covered in this article. New rural home business and small business has sprung up from this strategy. Farm spouses have found a fun and prosperous home business with this method. And it doesn't mean a current farm has to grow more or different crops.]]></description>
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<title>Starting Or Improving a Bed and Breakfast, Country Inn Or Rural Hotel? Make More Money This Way</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2008 13:27:42 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Plan to start a green business, home business, or is your current small business a bed and breakfast, country inn, or rural hotel? You can cash in on the burgeoning eco-travel and huge local food movement by adding a simple boutique mini farm enterprise to your current green small business or small business plan, even on less than an acre.  Small business owners of hotels and bed and breakfasts, as well as innkeepers, can dramatically increase their business profits, word-of-mouth marketing, and attract substantially higher numbers of bed and breakfast, country inn or rural hotel guests by ...]]></description>
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<title>Start a Rural Small Enterprise</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2008 08:29:17 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Want to start a business in the country? Want to revive rural communities? Seeking to start a rural business as your first home business, a second stream of income, or an enhancement to a current rural business? Both men and women rural entrepreneurs are living the country dream again. 2009 is a remarkable year for those starting a rural home business or small rural enterprise.]]></description>
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<title>Eco-Travel Business Model For Success in Tough Times - Agritourism Works in Good Times and Bad</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2008 13:44:45 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Farm owners and local citizens involved in boosting the success of their own local and regional economy and local farms may want to take agritourism very seriously.  Agritourism is a branch of eco-tourism. Interestingly, when done right, it flourishes when funds for travel are up, as well as when funds for travel are very low.]]></description>
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<title>On Becoming A Reiki Practitioner - What The &quot;Usui&quot; System Is - What Happens During And After Class</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2008 14:24:48 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Many people begin their Reiki journey with the "Usui" system. When we give Reiki classes and workshops in Washington State, for example, we start with this foundation, and move forward from there. "Usui" is the name of the man given credit for rediscovering Reiki and distilling its system for others to learn. As with many Reiki classes for those becoming a Reiki practitioner, ours in Washington State start with a one day workshop.
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<title>Thinking of Becoming a Reiki Practitioner? Seeking Reiki Workshops or Classes?</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 10 Mar 2008 11:16:48 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Reiki is a way any individual can become a conduit of a very high, pure, loving form of "chi," "prana," universal life force energy, or some just call it, energy of the divine. Here in Washington State, more and more individuals are becoming "attuned" to Reiki through Reiki classes, Reiki workshops, and then joining in on Reiki circles (explained below). ]]></description>
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<title>Start a Mini Farm Business in Your Backyard Or Small Acreage</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jan 2008 16:07:35 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[In this new world of eco-consciousness, concern of global warming, home business and entrepreneurship, a gourmet treasury of backyard mini-farm opportunities are being born. They range from substantial extra streams of income to full-time income, and from rooftops, even apartments (!) to farms on small acreage.]]></description>
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<title>Start a Small Farm or Make Money From Your Garden</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 06 Sep 2007 16:13:40 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Have you wanted to start a small farm? Interested in organic farming? Want to start a country Bed & Breakfast? Would you like to produce a nature-related home business income stream and make money from your garden? Any or all of these are more attainable now than ever.]]></description>
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<title>Healing HIV/AIDS, Reaching the World - The Evolution and Promise of Reiki</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jun 2007 09:19:22 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[I recently spoke to a young man, a USA citizen, who was told to "get his affairs in order" as he lay in the hospital with HIV/AIDS. Today, his HIV viral load is undetectable. He had been approached by a Reiki master while lying in the hospital bed. After receiving Reiki treatments, he learned Reiki himself, and is now helping some of the most disadvantaged, angry and impoverished people in the USA, which includes administering Reiki.]]></description>
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<title>Growing Flowers for Fun or Profit</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2007 09:38:19 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[As the micro eco-farming movement continues, flower carts from mini flower farms: backyard to half an acre, are springing up on small town street corners and near busy urban coffee shops. U-pick flower patches and honor-system flower stands are further ways flower lovers are earning income.]]></description>
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<title>Developing Natural Writing Talent the World Can't Resist</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jan 2007 16:57:52 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Metaphorically, imagine that the great writers who move humanity: Stephen King, JRR Tolkien, and J.K. Rawlings, for example, know what the rest of us don't yet know: that there's a secret radio station, if you will, that they can tune their brains into.]]></description>
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<title>New and Unusual Basil Herbs for 2007</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Basil's long, intriguing history is steeped in legend and folklore. It can make a wonderful specialty herb garden or home business cash crop for teas, local gourmet restaurants, and other "foodie" customers. With more than 150 varieties, from lime to clove, the possibilities seem almost endless.
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<title>Welcoming Home the Farm Next Door: Small Farms are Returning Across the Land</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 06 Dec 2006 20:22:41 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[When the harvest moon rises in the sky, the faint memory of a nation of local farms celebrating another season of abundance lingers in the air. 

But soon it may be more than just a vision of long ago. More often now, if we turn the corner, the farm is real.
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<title>Eco-Growing Newly Discovered Fruits, Herbs &amp; Vegetables for Fun or Profit</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 06 Dec 2006 11:12:23 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Did you know there's an exotic melon with flesh like lime gelatin dessert (only better)? Have you ever heard of the taradi vine with its edible tubers? How about the delicious Shopova fruit? ]]></description>
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<title>You Can Become a Well-paid Professional Freelance Writer</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 13 Nov 2006 06:05:52 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[I mean a "real" writer that gets paid by established publishers and magazines directly for the writing, with a byline and 3 and 4 digit checks that come regularly in the mail. This wonderful lifestyle is alive and attainable. I was an unknown, and started on a kitchen table on Saturdays, and worked my way up to full time cover stories in slick magazines, and ongoing book projects with various publishers. ]]></description>
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<title>Mad Cow, Avian Flu: Cure &amp; Prevention</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 26 Mar 2006 17:55:20 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Offered here is distilled research and commentary presented by reputable third parties on mad cow, avian flu, hoof & mouth, MS, HIV/AIDS and others. The third parties presented here are either researchers with no product to sell, or established, reputable journalistic reports, including one from National Public Radio (NPR).<br>]]></description>
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<title>Reiki: Receiving Direct Love from God via the &quot;Palms of Christ&quot;</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 21 Mar 2006 06:04:07 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Reiki is "energy" from a higher source that has a wisdom of its own. It is described as something that already knows where to go and what to do once allowed into the human's energy field.]]></description>
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<title>Selling Home-Grown Tea Herbs</title>
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<description><![CDATA[There are numerous ways to package dried herbal teas for sale, from tea-themed gift baskets to home spa tea collections. Also, they can be sold as individual live potted plants. These are usually for your customers' gardens, but some tea herbs can be grown on a windowsill or porch, or even on your customers' desks at work.<br>]]></description>
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<title>Growing Blueberries for Fun or Profit</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Blueberries are well known for fresh eating, pies, jams, jellies, syrups, juice, and baked goods such as blueberry muffins, pancakes and waffles. But, they are also baked into squash dishes and coffee cakes. Backyard growers and small farms prosper by offering blueberries as a u-pick crop, and by creating one-of-a-kind value-added blueberry products such as pancake mixes, or blueberry flavored organic yogurt and ice cream. ]]></description>
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<title>Growing Rare Fruits for Fun or Profit</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 02 Mar 2006 09:58:53 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Gardeners, small farmers and boutique backyard nurseries can attract customers with unusual tree, vine and bush fruit crops that offer customers a taste of the exotic, of history, or of their native bioregion that they can find nowhere else. The rare product can be their main crop, or a sideline.<br>]]></description>
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<title>Growing Tea Herbs for Fun or Profit</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 02 Mar 2006 09:50:58 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Growing herbs for tea can be a pleasant hobby, or become a market crop offered to customers in a variety of ways, giving them the opportunity to add healthy variety to their beverage menu, whether warming up in the morning with a fresh-picked brew, or sipping garden-grown iced tea on a summer afternoon.<br> ]]></description>
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<title>Our History with Blueberries - Reviving Their Home-Grown and Local Farm Status</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 02 Mar 2006 09:45:59 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The blueberry has a long and popular history with humans. Considered a very old species, it was once known as "star berry" by the Native Americans because of the perfect five-pointed star shape that forms on the blossom end of each berry.<br>]]></description>
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<title>Sampler of Rare Fruits for Fun or Profit</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 02 Mar 2006 09:14:56 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Here is a sampler of unusual fruits showing up on temperate climate farms and in nurseries. They can be grown as a hobby or for home business.<br>]]></description>
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<title>Humankind's History Raising the Domestic Chicken</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 02 Mar 2006 09:13:55 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Humans have raised chickens for a long time. It's estimated that domestication of the chicken dates back to at least 2000 B.C., and some say as far back as 4000 B.C.  ]]></description>
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<title>Favorite Tea Herbs to Grow</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 02 Mar 2006 09:07:57 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The list of herbs one can use for tea is long, with their uses crossing over from pure culinary pleasure to folk remedy and healing. Here are some all-time beverage favorites, from South African natives to North American natives, and many others you might want to try.<br>]]></description>
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<title>Favorite Rare Breed Chickens</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Humans have bred chicken breeds for thousands of years from wild jungle fowl. Today, there are an estimated 350 combinations of physical features for chickens. Here is a sampler of colorful breeds considered rare that are finding favor again. As a collection, they lay an assortment of rich pinkish brown, tinted white, pure white and blue/green-shelled eggs.<br>]]></description>
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<title>Chickens in Your Backyard for Fun or Profit</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 01 Mar 2006 11:01:43 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A small flock of chickens can become a great living compost pile. And with new understandings of the superiority of grass-fed organic animal products, including higher Omega-3 fatty acids coming from the eggs of such animals, freerange chickens are showing up again on organic small farms, backyard mini-farms, and even urban lots. ]]></description>
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