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Feel Better This Winter with Echinacea

Crops & Gardening
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Despite claims of its futility, Echinacea is there to lend a helping hand when the worst of winter illnesses get you down.

7 Market Crops You Can Grow in a Greenhouse

Crops & Gardening | Farm Management |
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Your farm income doesn’t have to drop just because the temperature has. Use your greenhouse to grow products for sale all winter-long.

5 Planting Mistakes that Lead to Tree Death

Crops & Gardening | Farm Management |
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Encourage your trees to live long, healthy lives by avoiding these common planting oversights.

9 Herbs You Can Burn as Incense

Crops & Gardening
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Aromatherapy isn’t limited to an expensive essential oil bottle. Burn these herbs—many of which you can grow yourself—as incense.

5 Simple Steps to Build Low Tunnels

Crops & Gardening
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Grow greens and root vegetables all winter long by extending the season with low tunnels over your raised garden beds.

4 Herbs For Your Halloween Celebration

Crops & Gardening
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Amid the ghosts and ghouls of Halloween is a mix of traditions that honor the dead, and these herbs have played a supporting role.

Cover Your Noses Around This Mushroom

Crops & Gardening
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You’ll quickly notice the hallmark of the stinkhorn mushroom: a foul odor that can’t be missed.

Find Beauty in Forest Loss

Crops & Gardening
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The death of a tree, as with the end of the growing season, rejuvenates other life—we just have to open our eyes to see it.

7 Creative Ways to Balance Excess Soil Nutrients

Crops & Gardening
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There’s no one way to balance soil fertility. Try one of these techniques to grow your best crop yet.

7 New Ways to Preserve Squash

Crops & Gardening | Homesteading |
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Squash are a giving garden crop, but here’s what you can do when the harvest gets overwhelming.

How to Harvest Potatoes

Crops & Gardening
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On a whim, I decided to plant potatoes this year and I’m so glad I did—75 pounds of delicious potatoes await the dinner table.

Our Amazing Native Spicebush

Crops & Gardening
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This native forest-grown plant has a surprisingly tangy flavor and can be used like kava kava to help ease anxiety.

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