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How To Save Tomato Seeds From Your Garden’s Tomatoes (Video)

Beginning Farmers | Crops & Gardening | Farm & Garden | Homesteading | Urban Farming | Video |
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Saving tomato seeds is cost-effective and preserves heirloom qualities from one harvest to the next. Here's how to do it.

4 Tools You Need For Picking Apples

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Picking apples is a wonderful pastime. It’s the perfect way to enjoy the literal fruits of your farm. But you won’t get very far without the right tools.

Tips For Starting First-Year Garden Beds (Part One)

Beginning Farmers | Crops & Gardening | Farm & Garden | Permaculture |
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Getting started with gardening can be intimidating, so we put together some pro gardening tips to help. First up: establishing your first garden beds.

Growing Rice & Microgreens With Blue Moon Acres

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Co-owner Jim Lyons from New Jersey-based Blue Moon Acres tells us about supplying eye-catching microgreens to chefs and adding rice to the repertoire.

Seven Seed Storage Mistakes To Avoid

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Have seeds you'd like to keep—and keep viable—for a while? Follow these seed storage dos and don'ts to get the most out of your seeds.

How To Get Started With Rainwater Collection

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Save money and give your plants the best with a rainwater collection system. Not sure where to start? Here are some tips for starting out.

Make & Apply Natural Herbicide For Invasive Plants (Video)

Beginning Farmers | Crops & Gardening | Farm & Garden | Urban Farming | Video |
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Weeds and unwelcome plants are just a part of growing, but you can spot spray this natural, homemade herbicide to kill growth that threatens your garden.

Book Review: The Healthy Vegetable Garden

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In her newly published book "The Healthy Vegetable Garden," Sally Morgan provides detailed guidelines for improving your garden’s resilience to pests, disease and other pressures.

Burwell Farms Breaks New Ground Farming White Truffles In America

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Jeffrey Coker from the North Carolina-based Burwell Farms tells us how they've become innovators in the domestic white truffle farming realm.

How to Propagate Black Raspberries & Other Brambles

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You can propagate black raspberries or other brambles easily. Try tip layering or simple soil layering to multiply your plant stock—and next year's harvest.

Garden Trellises Aren’t Just For Climbing Plants

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We all know about using trellises to support climbing plants. But garden trellises can actually be helpful to almost any plant if challenging circumstances arise.

Link Garden Tricks For A Successful Growing Season

Beginning Farmers | Crops & Gardening | Farm & Garden | Permaculture |
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Olympic athletes develop certain tricks to master performances, and similarly we should develop and utilize trick sequences in the garden for growing success.

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