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How to Cook With Chanterelle Mushrooms

Crops & Gardening | Homesteading |
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These meaty mushrooms with a light fruity flavor taste best when cooked in simple farmhouse style.

Turnips Just Got Sexier

Crops & Gardening
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With frost’s first kiss, turnips go from being bland ol’ root vegetables to the belle of the ball.

How Bats Are Valuable To Farms

Crops & Gardening | Farm Management | News |
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According to studies, bats are worth $3.7 billion to U.S. agriculture.

Basil’s Haunting Tale

Crops & Gardening
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Basil plays a starring role in this spooky story of forbidden love, murder and ghosts.

3 Lemon-Flavored Herbs For Your Garden and Kitchen

Crops & Gardening
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Enjoy the citrus-y flavor of lemon in a number of your favorite recipes with these homegrown alternatives to the fruit.

5 Tips For Marketing Garlic

Crops & Gardening | Farm Management |
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Customers will be lining up outside your farmers' market booth for your fresh garlic—but you might need to do some legwork ahead of time.

Ghostly Paperwhites And Their Spooky Story

Crops & Gardening
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Incorporate these daffodil relatives as a haunting feature in your Halloween displays.

The Amazing Red Noodle Bean

Crops & Gardening
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These extra-long, stringless beans are easy to grow and a joy to harvest.

How To Grow Leeks In The Fall

Crops & Gardening
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Your growing season doesn’t have to end just because cool weather’s on the radar. Turn to leeks—a high-producing cold-hardy crop.

Prickly Ash For The Nervous System

Crops & Gardening
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Plant this tree not only for the usually benefits a farm tree brings but for its medicinal ability to treat pain.

Burning Question: Should We Ditch the Humanure Taboo?

Beginning Farmers | Crops & Gardening |
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We could compost human waste and save trillions of gallons of water each year. The question is: Are we brave enough to try?

How To Pick Apples The Correct Way

Crops & Gardening
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Maximize your apple harvest this year by preventing damage to your apples and the trees they come from.

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