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8 Things to Never Put In Your Home Compost Pile

Crops & Gardening | Urban Farming |
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For a healthy compost pile that’s safe to use on the garden and won’t create unpleasant odors, steer clear of adding these materials.

Sweet-Corn Polenta with Ratatouille

Crops & Gardening | Recipes | Urban Farming |
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This hearty, vegetable-centric dish from the Toledo Zoo’s Chef Sam Misiura can be customized to whatever produce you’re harvesting from the garden.

Growing and Preparing Sunchokes

Crops & Gardening | Urban Farming |
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Whether you call them sunchokes or Jerusalem artichokes, these vegetables belong in the urban garden.

Growing and Cooking Collards

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A once-popular cool-season crop, collards should become a mainstay in your garden.

What Is Hügelkultur?

Crops & Gardening | Farm Management | Uncategorized | Urban Farming |
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Build healthy soil your garden can rock out in with this German compost technique.

4 Tips Banish Garden Weeds—Permanently!

Crops & Gardening | Urban Farming |
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Encourage healthy crops and boot weeds to the curb with these cultivation tips for small-scale gardens.

Bay Laurel: Small Trees, Big Flavor

Crops & Gardening | Urban Farming |
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A Mediterranean native, bay laurel trees are a perfect plant for container growers who want to grow their own flavorful seasonings.

3 Mushrooms to Grow in Small Spaces

Crops & Gardening | Urban Farming |
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Improve your garden selection with these mushrooms any urban farmer can grow.

6 Household Items You Can Upcycle for the Garden

Crops & Gardening | Urban Farming |
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Got a pile of junk destined for the curb? Give it new life as a trellis or planter in the garden.

Pruning Fruit Trees by Hand

Crops & Gardening | Urban Farming |
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Use our Green Thumb advice for easy pruning solutions.

Winter Mulching Benefits Spring Vegetables

Crops & Gardening | Urban Farming |
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Sticking to a schedule, including winter mulching, gives spring plants a head start and cuts down early-season work.

Baby Greenhouses

Crops & Gardening | Urban Farming |
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Small greenhouses, row covers, can speed up the growth of your annuals.

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