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Festival Market: A Bunch of Baloney?

Crops & Gardening
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Saturday, January 17, was the festival of Saint Antonio.

Apples of Antiquity

Crops & Gardening
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Whether they’re called heirloom, heritage or historical, these time-honored apples of yesteryear are staging a dramatic comeback in orchards all over the world, and rightfully so.

Goats for Weed Control

Animals | Crops & Gardening | Farm Management | Large Animals |
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Consider adding a few goats to your farm for weed control--another way goats can help humans get through the day

Orcharding

Crops & Gardening
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Celebrating America's Gardening Traditions with Orcharding

Tips for Pest-Free Tomatoes

Crops & Gardening
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Keep your tomato plants pest-free this summer by monitoring tomato pest activity--and try these tips for an organic approach.

Sprout a Winter Vegetable Garden Indoors

Crops & Gardening
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Instructions for how you can grow sprouts indoors and sprout your own nutritious and delicious winter vegetable garden – indoors!

Winter Squash Growing

Crops & Gardening
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Learn about winter squash. Whether you’d like to grow it, eat it or use as fall décor, the seasons favorite "fruit” offers rewards to small farmers.

Got Compost? The Basic Facts on the Methods & Benefits of Composting

Crops & Gardening
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It's common knowledge that composting is good, but you need to know how best to do it. Here are the basic and why it’s so beneficial to our crops.

Fall Vegetable Garden Course

Crops & Gardening
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Course in fall vegetable gardening offers Hobby Farms Editor in Chief inspiring learning activities.

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly Bugs

Crops & Gardening
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Are those good bugs or bad bugs lurking in your garden? Before you spray, find out if that creepy-looking bug is really a hazard to your garden.

Heirloom Pears

Animals | Crops & Gardening |
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Pears have a long history of cultivation—grow a piece of the past on your farm with heirloom pear trees.

Plant and Grow Lavender

Crops & Gardening
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Learn more about growing lavender from Lavender Fields in Valley Center, Calif. The business has provided its owners with a serene place to work, live and dream.

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