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Soooo Many Chores!

Crops & Gardening
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Fall has definitely arrived.

Mushroom Season

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Gino shows off the huge Porcini mushroom he foraged this year. It’s a good fall for collecting mushrooms this year. My wife and I drove up into the mountains this week to attend an agricultural festival, and the side of the road on the way up was dotted with the parked cars of mushroom hunters. We saw […]

Planning My Dream Garden

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On a very exciting note, we have invited a landscape architect friend of mine (we went to college together) to come over and redesign our back patio and gardens.

Early-fall Garden Report

Crops & Gardening
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Autumn has barely arrived, and the leaves have already started to drop around here.

Container Garden Ideas

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I was lucky enough last weekend to spend a day at the Cleveland Botanical Garden with my mother and a group of gardening friends.

Revamp Your Garden with a Garden Coach

Crops & Gardening
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Spruce up your home’s garden landscape with cultivation advice from professional gardeners.

Chicken Chores

Crops & Gardening | Poultry |
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I once read an article (and I think it was actually in a long-ago issue of Hobby Farms) where the author stated that the term "free-range chicken” really means "crap-everywhere chicken.” Spot on, my friend.

Three-bin Compost System

Crops & Gardening
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I’m the proud momma of a brand new … wait … wait for it … compost bin!

Purple Potato Harvest

Crops & Gardening
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Hard to believe it’s school season already!

Garden Planning: USDA Zone Map

Crops & Gardening
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Use the USDA plant hardiness zone map to determine the best plants for your garden.

Stink Bugs

Crops & Gardening
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I've been finding all these little bugs in the garden all summer long that I couldn’t identify at first.

Hot and Dry

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It’s been super hot here for the past few weeks. And, even worse than that, we’ve had no rain to speak of; not even the occasional random thunderstorm.

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