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USDA Sets April 15 Application Cutoff for CSP Renewals

Little Rock – The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resource Conservation Service is accepting Conservation Stewardship Program (CSP) renewal applications through April 15. During the first half of the fifth year of the existing contract term, NRCS may allow a participant to apply and compete to renew their contract for an additional 5-year period. NRCS is mailing contract renewal notification letters to all participants whose contracts expire in 2022. These letters contain instructions on how to apply for CSP renewal.
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Moose Lodge to host pork loin dinner

The Legionnaires of Mountain Home Moose Lodge #1953 will host their monthly fundraising dinner event this coming Friday, March 25, from 4:30 – 6:30 p.m. The menu will include a generous portion of mouth-watering stuffed pork loin with Waldorf dressing, mashed potatoes, corn, roll, coleslaw, dessert and a beverage.
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Bring a Bit of Spring Indoors

Many gardeners are busy pruning shrubs to remove winter damage, control the size, or provide a bit of shaping before the season is well under way. Save some of the branches or cut a few from spring flowering shrubs to brighten your indoors. You’ll enjoy the added spring color provided by branches of forsythia, quince, pussy willows, and other spring flowering shrubs for bouquets and arrangements.
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Forsythia, the most Beautiful Yellow Flowering Bush Blooms early in the Spring

I remember my first Forsythia, my grandfather Doyel noticed me admiring all his shrubs and he went over and took his pocket knife out and cut me off a stem of it and gave it to me and told me to go home and break up a little ground and lay the stem down and cover it just enough so it would stay. He said there is not much else to do it will take care of itself.
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Cooking with Mumzy!

Cooking with Mumzy Hello friends of the Mountaineer Echo. I hope this week finds you all in good health and happy spirits. We are all doing well here with my family. I am going to do some simple recipes that we remember from our childhood.
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