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Infographic: Cool Your Vegetables to Make Them Last

Crops & Gardening | Farm Management |
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To make your produce last after harvest for both healthy eating and appealing market display, store them at the right temperature and humidity.

How to Write a Farm Business Plan

Crops & Gardening | Farm Management |
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Want to take your farm from hobby to budding enterprise? Make your business endeavor a success story by formulating a plan and putting it into action.

How to Grow Apples in Tight Spaces

Crops & Gardening
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If your land can’t support a full-sized apple tree, columnar trees, with their conservative space requirements, could supply your family with fruit for pies, crisps and more.

Grow Plants to Treat Childhood Illnesses

Crops & Gardening
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Children’s immune systems are bound to get exercised with illness, especially this time of year. Grow herbs to have on hand to treat the symptoms and help them get well.

5 Ways to Keep Cats Out of Your Garden

Crops & Gardening | Large Animals |
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Prevent roaming felines from making your vegetable bed their litter box with this selection of deterrents.

Pine Trees: An Overlooked Herbal Remedy

Crops & Gardening
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Pine trees take center stage in the winter, but their historical use as a decongestant and pain reliever has fallen by the wayside.

Is Turmeric Good for Chickens?

Animals | Crops & Gardening | Poultry |
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If you’re looking for natural relief for your chickens’ pain or illness, turmeric might be the herb for you.

15 Tips for Growing Perfect Eggplants

Crops & Gardening
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If eggplants are on this year’s must-grow list, get the best crop possible with these helpful hints.

Dreading Winter? Grow Parsley (and Other Crops) Indoors

Crops & Gardening
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My 4-year-old daughter’s birthday gift inspired me to beat the winter blues by starting a garden in our home’s windowsill.

Plan It: Your 2015 Garden Strategy

Crops & Gardening
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Craft your month-by-month garden game plan now, so this year, you'll be on track to grow your "perfect" garden.

My 4 New Year’s Herbal Resolutions

Crops & Gardening
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As you usher out last year’s bad decisions or regrets, turn your focus on to positive intentions to make 2015 a year to remember.

How Do Roots Pull Nutrition Out of the Soil?

Crops & Gardening
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Not every carrot has the same nutritional value. The secret to highly nutritious plants is, well, in the soil.

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