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Garden Garb

Crops & Gardening
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From clothing to cubbies, make sure you’re ready to dig in the dirt this spring with the freshest gardening gadgets.

Gravel Pathways

Crops & Gardening | Equipment | Farm Management |
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Whether pathways on your farm are used for walkways between garden produce or for thoroughfares between barns and pastures, there’s a type of footing for every situation.

Olives To Olive Oil

Crops & Gardening
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Have your oil and eat olives, too! Learn how olives are grown and processed into the elixir of the gods.

What Does Your Garden Grow

Crops & Gardening | Farm Management |
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This fun garden planning activity is the creation of a student of the Sustainable Agriculture Program at the University of Kentucky. Try it yourself this season.

Crop Profile: Sweet Potatoes

Crops & Gardening
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Sweet potatoes need and deserve some respect due to the claim that they are the most nutritious vegetable grown on the planet.

Keep Garden Pests Away with Companion Planting

Crops & Gardening
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Introduce companion plants into your garden as an additional integrated pest management strategy to keep harmful garden pests at bay.

A Snowman in the Garden

Crops & Gardening
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Having a three year old in the house is a great excuse to act like a kid.

Trellising Fruits and Vegetables Saves Garden Space

Crops & Gardening
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Trellising fruits and vegetables is a gardening technique that keeps plants off the ground, improves production and increases usable space. It also prevents your harvest, particularly tomatoes, from rotting.

Understanding Invasive Plants: Lessons from Floracliff

Crops & Gardening | Farm Management |
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Learn what to do after you indentify invasive plants, find out why they're so bad and what you should choose instead from nature preserve manager Beverly James.

Benefical Insects Information

Crops & Gardening
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Learn more about the army of beneficial insects--predatory and parasitic--available to help you get rid of bad bugs in your garden.

Mushroom Farming

Crops & Gardening
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The mushroom farming industry could use a few more good growers. Learn how to begin this crop on your farm.

Edible Weeds

Crops & Gardening
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Eliminate invasive plants: Eat a weed! From autumn olive berries to milkweed, try some of these delicious edible weed recipes.

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