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4 Tips For Building Soil From Scratch

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Recycle your home, food and personal waste as fertilizer and mulch to build your garden’s soil quality without spending a dime.

UF Hack: Encourage Self-Sowing Plants

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A self-sown garden may go against your green-thumb intuition, but it could make your garden life a whole lot easier.

Sharpen Up On Scythes

Crops & Gardening | Equipment | Urban Farming |
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Looking for a more sustainable option for your mower or weed whacker? The scythe could be your answer.

Urban Farm Hack: Get an Eco-Smart Christmas Tree

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This year, consider decorating with a Christmas tree that can be planted outdoors after the holiday festivities come to an end.

UF Hack: Drink Your Basil Seeds

Crops & Gardening | Recipes | Urban Farming |
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Letting your basil plants go to seed isn’t a bad thing—use the seeds in internationally inspired drinks and desserts.

UF Hack: An Advent Calendar Of Seeds

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Inspire green thoughts in the darker months by counting down the days until Christmas using heirloom seeds.

Q&A With The Living Christmas Tree Company

Crops & Gardening | Farm Management | Urban Farming |
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Oh, Christmas tree! Fill your heart with extra holiday cheer by renting a live Christmas tree this year instead of buying one.

How to Make Lacto-Fermented Mushrooms

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Whether you grow, forage, or buy mushrooms, this fermentation technique is a nutritious and delicious way to preserve them.

UF Hack: How to Grow Your Own Mistletoe

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This traditional holiday décor encompasses multiple species of plants that parasitize trees—and they’re good for biome diversity, too!

UF Hack: Winter Pruning

Crops & Gardening | Urban Farming |
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Use the slow winter gardening season to prune back fruit trees, shrubs and vines so you have more to harvest next year.

UF Hack: Prune Out Fire Blight

Crops & Gardening | Urban Farming |
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While your diseased trees are dormant is the best time to prune them and give them a healthy start to the new year.

10 Vegetables You Can Grow Hydroponically

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Soil isn’t needed and the change of seasons won’t hold you back if you grow these crops in a hydroponic garden.

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