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Gardening Gifts Are Great For The Holidays (Or Whenever)

Beginning Farmers | Crops & Gardening | Farm & Garden | Homesteading | Permaculture |
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Looking for a last-minute gift? These gardening items make great gifts during the holidays—or, really, any time of the year!

Manage Community Gardens Better With Permabeds

Beginning Farmers | Crops & Gardening | Farm & Garden | Farm Management | Permaculture |
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Raised Permabeds help growers better manage their community gardens, from irrigating beds and performing seasonal tasks to rotating crops each year.

Recipe: How Make A Delicious Batch Of Fermented Sauerkraut

Crops & Gardening | Farm & Garden | Food | Recipes |
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Think you don't like sauerkraut? You should give homemade a try. Requiring just salt and cabbage, this classic ferment is versatile and tasty.

Foraging, Drying & Storing Oyster Mushrooms (Video)

Crops & Gardening | Farm & Garden | Food | Foraging | Foraging | Video |
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Plentiful and available year-round, oyster mushrooms are easy to spot. In this video, we look at finding, cleaning and drying foraged mushrooms.

Dahlias & Tulips Cultivate Kindness At Petals & Posies Flower Farm

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Petals and Posies Flower Farm founder, Carli Pritchett, tells us how she keeps family traditions alive at the Washington-based venture.

From the Herb Garden: Pine Is A Powerhouse

Crops & Gardening | Farm & Garden | Foraging |
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This handy evergreen is more than just a holiday decoration. Grow and forage pine for use in delicious meals, healing teas and more!

Permabeds Organize & Improve Community Gardens

Beginning Farmers | Crops & Gardening | Farm & Garden | Farm Management | Permaculture |
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Community gardens are an amazing concept, but too often scattered approaches hurt growing efficiency and land health. Permabeds can help with both.

Direct-Sow River Oats Now For Benefits Next Season

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Chasmanthium latifolium is well-suited for rain gardens, supporting wildlife, preventing erosion and more. And you can plant river oats now, in late fall.

Harvesting Hickory Nuts & Celebrating Kunekunes At 5 Dog Farm

Animals | Beginning Farmers | Crops & Gardening | Farm & Garden | Foraging | Homesteading | Uncategorized |
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Niki from the Tennessee-based family venture 5 Dog Farm gives us the inside scoop on how to make a four-generation farm prosper.

What Exactly Is A Cover Crop? (You Have Options)

Beginning Farmers | Crops & Gardening | Farm & Garden | Farm Management | Permaculture |
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While there are a handful of accepted cover crop plants, the truth is that cover cropping can be achieved with a variety of plant species.

Make Your Own Pain-Relieving Herbal Salve

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Whether you're at home or on the go, this simple herbal salve will bring topical relief with just three ingredients—lavender, white willow bark and cayenne pepper!

How To Make Paper From Milkweed Fiber

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After the season's bees and butterflies have gone, why not transform those dried-up milkweed stalks into handmade paper? Here's how to make some of your own.

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