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Build a Raised Bed High Tunnel to Extend the Harvest

Crops & Gardening
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Extend your harvest with this simple season extender. This raised bed high tunnel is made to fit existing raised beds and takes only a few hours to build.

Get to Know the Medicinal Benefits of Strawberry Leaf

Crops & Gardening | Homesteading |
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Strawberry leaf has traditional uses to help the digestive, respiratory, nervous and female reproductive systems, although it does carry some controversy.

Late-season Butterfly Flowers for Your Garden

Crops & Gardening
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Late-season butterfly flowers are critical to the health of these important pollinators. The nectar they provide helps the insects survive the winter. Here are some great plants for the job.

Meet the Hairy Horticulturist—and the Tiny Cucamelon

Crops & Gardening | Homesteading |
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The cucamelon is an itty bitty vegetable that looks like a melon and tastes like a zesty cucumber. We get the facts from an avid grower we found on Instagram.

Make Your Apple Harvest Easier & Fun: Have a Hayride

Crops & Gardening | Equipment |
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This fall, put your hay wagon to good use and invite friends and family to participate in a fun (and surprisingly practical) apple harvest hayride.

How To Get Your Garden Ready For Winter

Crops & Gardening
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With an autumnal chill sneaking into the air, it's time for cool-weather planting and chores that will give your garden a head start next spring.

5 Ways Ironweed Can Improve Your Health

Crops & Gardening
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This fall-blooming perennial plant is more than a pretty pasture flower. Ironweed has a long history of medicinal use. Here are some.

Black Radish: A Delicious Vegetable With Healing Powers

Crops & Gardening | Homesteading |
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Black radish is a food, like other radishes, but it also has numerous healing properties used for centuries that researchers are now verifying.

Use Floating Row Cover to Protect Crops This Fall

Beginning Farmers | Crops & Gardening |
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You can use floating row cover to protect your crops from the coming colder temperatures. Here are several ways and their benefits.

Have a Hoop House? Try These Cover Crops

Crops & Gardening
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This book excerpt outlines several till and no-till cover crops you can use for weed suppression and soil enrichment in hoop houses

The Wisdom of Women Farmers, Part 3: Thoughts on Death

Animals | Crops & Gardening | Farm Management | Homesteading | Large Animals | News | Poultry |
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Five women farmers over 50 share insight about their experiences in life and agriculture. In this second segment, the topic is death.

To Learn Its History, Read These 4 Organic Farming Books

Beginning Farmers | Crops & Gardening | Farm Management | Homesteading | News |
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Learning the history of small-scale organic farming can help you better understand and improve growing practices. These books are ideal starting points.

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