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A Holistic Goal Allows Your Farm (Or Garden) To Work For Your Vision

Beginning Farmers | Crops & Gardening | Farm & Garden | Farm Management | Homesteading |
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Maximize your farm or garden's potential by setting a holistic goal that takes into consideration your vision, your land and the surrounding community.

Produce Profile: Consider Cheery Chamomile

Crops & Gardening | Farm & Garden |
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A bright, easy herb to grow, chamomile in the garden might just keep you and your beneficial insects happy.

Field Garlic & Wild Onions Are Flavorful Foraged Treats

Crops & Gardening | Farm & Garden | Homesteading |
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Field garlic and wild onion are easy to spot (and smell), and their flavorful bulbs and leaves make for good dining, making them a forager's favorite find.

Sew Your Own Fabric Pots For Starting Plants Indoors

Crops & Gardening | Equipment | Farm & Garden | Homesteading | Urban Farming |
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Pots made from scrap denim, felt, landscape fabric and other materials are inexpensive, easy to make and good for plants. Here's how to make some fabric pots yourself!

In Defense Of Okra (Excerpt From The Whole Okra)

Crops & Gardening | Farm & Garden |
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In this excerpt from the James Beard-winning book The Whole Okra, chef and author Chris Smith tells us how he first fell in love with the Southern crop.

Growing Herbs For Herbal Products Is Rewarding & Profitable

Crops & Gardening | Farm & Garden | Homesteading |
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Caitlin McMullen works with homegrown herbs and native wild ones to make tinctures, infused herbal oils and an herbal CSA.

From the Herb Garden: Coriander/Cilantro

Crops & Gardening | Farm & Garden | Homesteading |
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Whether you love or hate cilantro (a/k/a, coriander), this controversial herb is also a flavorful, and ancient, winter spice. And its uses go beyond the kitchen!

How (& Why) To Forage For Lion’s Mane Mushrooms

Crops & Gardening | Farm & Garden |
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Versatile fungus with tons of flavor, lion's mane mushrooms are easy to spot and, without any dangerous lookalikes, a simple and safe entry into foraging for food.

How To Effectively Stack Your Square Hay Bales

Crops & Gardening | Farm & Garden | Farm Management |
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I won’t claim to be a Rembrandt or a Picasso when it comes to how I stack square bales, but there is an art to it—and I have a handful of helpful insights to share.

Cool Your Root Cellar In Summer With Winter’s Ice

Crops & Gardening | Farm & Garden | Farm Management |
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If you live in a place that experiences sub-freezing winter temperatures, you can make your own ice to keep your root cellar cool through the summer months.

Crop Rotation Matters In Home Garden Beds, Too

Crops & Gardening | Farm & Garden |
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Just as in larger agricultural operations, crop rotation is important in the home garden, too, for preventing pests, maximizing nutrition and increasing vegetable yields.

5 New Year’s Farming Resolutions for 2021

Crops & Gardening | Equipment |
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To celebrate the welcome arrival of 2021 (and departure of 2020), one farmer shares his New Year's farming resolutions for the coming year, including tree pruning, tractor repair and more.

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