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Hobby Farms Hacks: Use a Yard Cart for Drying Onions

Crops & Gardening | Equipment | Farm Management |
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Ready to put your yard cart to use in an unusual manner? Use it for drying onions from your crop. Here's why a yard cart is ideal for the task.

4 Hand Tools That Can Benefit Your Farm

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These hand tools offer a variety of advantages to your farm, including promoting soil health, controlling weeds and improving efficiency.

How to Delay Bolting of Your Spring Greens

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Tricking cool-season greens into believing it's not quite summer is essential to learning how to delay bolting and extend the harvest of these plants. Learn five ways you can delay bolting.

How to Safely Move Young Trees Long Distances

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Transporting live, young trees might seem difficult, but with a utility trailer, some blankets and plenty of rope, you can move them safely.

Hostas: The Leafy Green You Didn’t Know You Could Eat

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Before hostas made their way into our ornamental gardens, they were enjoyed by the Japanese as an edible.

4 Ways to Improve Your Farm’s Vegetable Harvests

Beginning Farmers | Crops & Gardening | Farm Management |
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Improving the efficiency of vegetable harvests on your farm can save your business time and money. Follow these tips to make that happen.

Save Money: Use Trees as Fence Posts

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While building a deer-proof fence for my orchard, I've put trees to use as fence posts, significantly reducing the cost of the project.

Healing Herbs: Easy Herbs to Grow for Every Garden

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Start your garden small with just a few common miracle-worker herbs such as chamomile and lavender, then progress from there.

7 Ways to Keep Your Greens Looking Fresh at Market

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Follow these steps to keep your greens looking fresh from the day you harvest them until late in the day at the farmers market.

4 Ways a Caterpillar Tunnel Can Benefit Your Farm

Beginning Farmers | Crops & Gardening |
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Because of its low cost and portability, a caterpillar tunnel can be a great season-extension option for a beginning farmer.

Cutting-Edge Crops: How to Grow and Sell Saffron

Crops & Gardening | Farm Management |
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Saffron carries a high entry cost, but in subsequent years this crop with three marketable elements can provide a big profit margin.

3 Ways To Turn A Landscape Problem Into Opportunity

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Weedy trees? Steep slopes? Mismanaged forests? Kentucky innovators work with natural systems to find beneficial outcomes in these problems.

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