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Morels & Smilax Make For Fine Forest Foraging

Crops & Gardening
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If you want to begin foraging, morels and smilax are great items to start seeking—they're both delicious and easy enough to identify.

Sassafras Tea & Jellies Deserve A Place In Your Kitchen

Crops & Gardening | Homesteading | Recipes |
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Homemade tea and jellies used to be commonplace—until researchers suggested that a sassafras root ingredient was potentially carcinogenic.

Produce Profile: Fall In Love With Bunching Onions

Crops & Gardening | Urban Farming |
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Where green onions and bulb onions meet, we have bunching onions for year-round garden growing.

Meet The City Slicker Turned Farmer At Lane Creek Reserve

Animals | Crops & Gardening | Farm Management | Large Animals | Uncategorized |
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Joel Francois talks to us about living with goats, moving cows and growing hemp at Lane Creek Reserve in the Pacific Northwest.

Green Birdflower Is A Different Kind of ‘Hummingbird Plant’

Crops & Gardening | Farm Management | Urban Farming |
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Have fun but keep novelty plants like green birdflower in check when adding them to your landscape.

Build Healthy Soil Naturally With Probiotic Farming

Crops & Gardening | Farm Management | Urban Farming |
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Also sometimes called biointensive agriculture, probiotic farming feeds the land in natural ways for healthy soil and improved crops.

How to Keep Your Victory Garden Healthy All Season Long

Crops & Gardening
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Planting out a victory garden is one thing, but keeping it thriving all season long is another one. Here are some tips on how to maintain your vegetable garden.

At Scratch Brewing Company, Foraging Directs The Beers

Crops & Gardening | Uncategorized |
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Scratch Brewing Company co-owner Marika Josephson tells us how fallen leaves, chanterelle mushrooms and fermented acorns and are all part of the brewery's process.

Row Cover Increases Garden Efficiency And Production

Crops & Gardening | Farm Management |
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Row cover can make gardening easier and more productive in numerous ways, including protection and improving the growing environment.

Produce Profile: Don’t Forget The Frying Peppers

Crops & Gardening | Urban Farming |
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Frying peppers are the oft-forgotten pepper—outshone by bell peppers and hot peppers—but deserve gardeners' and hobby farmers’ attention, too.

6 Plants To Grow In A Medicinal Herb Container Garden

Crops & Gardening | Urban Farming |
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You don’t need much land—or any—to start your medicinal herb container garden. Grow these plants indoors or out for a beautiful and healthful garden.

Why You Should Compost & How To Start Today

Crops & Gardening | Urban Farming |
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Compost is an incredible transformation of organic material into a rich nutrient source for your plants. Here's what you need to know to start composting.

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