Hobby Farm Home® - May/June 2010

Features
20 Collaborative Cooking
Make your cooking and dining experience a social event by starting a rural cooking club in your neck of the woods.
by Barbara Berst Adams

26 Lusciously Lavender
Bring the heady scents and savory flavors of lavender into your kitchen. Learn to cook with this colorful and tasty herb.
by Erin McKay




38 Girls' Night Out- Farm Style
Catch up with old girlfriends or nurture relationships with new farm women by hosting a farm-inspired getaway on your homestead.
by Lisa Kivirist

44 Redefining the Homemaker
Change your notions of the traditional "housewife's" role in modern society with ideas and tips from Radical Homemaker author Shannon Hayes.
by Lisa Kivirist

64 Lean on Nature
Build plant supports for your garden using natural materials found around the farm.
by Jessica Walliser

78 Swap Meet
Why buy new when you can barter? Trade your excess gardening goods for the ones you need by planning and executing a local plant swap.
by Jessica Walliser

Columns
6 Lessons Learned
Cherie Langlois

14 Country Fare
Lynda King

34 Farm Fetishes
Jean M. Fogle

52 Home Clinic
Cheryl Morrison

56 Hands On
Jean M. Fogle

60 Nature Calls
Linda Tagliaferro

70 Garden Grit
Andy Tomolonis

76 Garden Home Solutions
P. Allen Smith

84 Animal Talk
Audrey Pavia

In Every Issue
4 Editor's Note
8 On the Market
10 General Store
13 Homespun
63 Good Reading
75 Storefront
88 In the Air
89 HobbyFarms.com
91 Marketplace
94 Classified Advertising
96 Back Home

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