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How To Harvest Stinging Nettles (Video)

Crops & Gardening | Farm & Garden | Foraging | Foraging | Homesteading |
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Stinging nettles are often regarded as pesky weeds, but learn to recognize and harvest the plant for their nutritional and medicinal value!

Book Review: Growing Beans Makes The Case For Beans

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Susan Young’s "Growing Beans" explores the reasons to grow and eat more beans, and provides a comprehensive guide for doing so.

Repel Nuisance Flies With These 8 Patio Plants

Beginning Farmers | Crops & Gardening | Farm & Garden | Homesteading | Permaculture |
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Nothing ruins porch or patio time like nuisance flies, so discourage bugs by growing plenty of these bug-repelling patio plants around your outdoor space.

Food Security Concerns? Start A Garden!

Beginning Farmers | Crops & Gardening | Farm & Garden | Homesteading | Permaculture |
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With inflation and income concerns affecting everyone, it's a great time to start a vegetable garden to increase food security. Here's how to start.

A Quick, At-Home Test Of Your Soil Composition (Video)

Beginning Farmers | Crops & Gardening | Farm & Garden | Video |
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For a quick idea of your soil composition and necessary amendments, try this easy, at-home test of your three basic soil elements.

Tree Bark, Rice Hulls & More—Exploring the Future of Soilless Growing Media

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Soilless growing mixes may be made with more regionally-sourced ingredients, new processing techniques over next few years.

Growing Medicinal Herbs in Containers (Book Excerpt)

Beginning Farmers | Crops & Gardening | Farm & Garden | Homesteading | Urban Farming |
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In this excerpt from The Healing Garden by Juliet Blankespoor, the author covers a handful of options for growing herbs in containers.

The Urban Garden Authors Prove ‘Gardening Is Something Anyone Can Do’

Crops & Gardening | Farm & Garden | Urban Farming |
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Whether you rent in the big city or live on a tiny lot in town, growing food and flowers is still within reach with guidance from The Urban Garden.

Planting, Transplanting & Pruning Trees (Excerpt, “The Home-Scale Forest Garden”)

Beginning Farmers | Crops & Gardening | Farm & Garden | Homesteading | Permaculture |
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In this excerpt from Dani Baker’s new book, "Home-Scale Forest Garden: How to Plan, Plant, and Tend a Resilient Edible Landscape," you can learn how to plant, transplant and prune trees.

Video: How To Transplant Tomato Plant Starts

Crops & Gardening | Farm & Garden | Homesteading | Urban Farming | Video |
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Potting up your young tomatoes and preventing them from becoming rootbound gives them a great head start. Here's how to transplant tomato plants.

How To Build & Use Your Own Plant Press

Crops & Gardening | Farm & Garden | Projects |
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Collect and preserve pretty blooms, interesting leaves and fragrant herbs for future gifts and craft projects with this DIY plant press project.

Grow Cover Crops For In-Situ Mulch

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Interested in using cover crops in-situ mulch but not sure where to start? Luckily, there are a few options for growing your own organic surface layer.

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