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Cooking Vegetables: When Should You Boil The Water?
When cooking vegetables, ever wonder if you should boil the water before or after you add the vegetables to the pot? Here’s our most popular tip!
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When Is Labor Day 2018 And What’s The Weekend Forecast?
Labor Day already? It’s hard to believe! Will your holiday weekend weather be wet or wonderful? See what we’re predicting for the U.S. and Canada!
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How to Identify Common Wild Berries
Timely tips on how and what to look for when picking wild berries, and spotting their look-alikes.
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Need a Holiday? August Has More of Them Than You Think!
Just because there are no major holidays in August doesn’t mean there is nothing to celebrate. Read on!
Learn more about August holidays »
If you notice a hole in the upper left-hand corner of your Farmers' Almanac, don't return it to the store! That hole isn't a defect; it's a part of history. Starting with the first edition of the Farmers' Almanac in 1818, readers used to nail holes into the corners to hang it up in their homes, barns, and outhouses (to provide both reading material and toilet paper). In 1919, the Almanac's publishers began pre-drilling holes in the corners to make it even easier for readers to keep all of that invaluable information (and paper) handy.
