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Make Your Own Seed-Cleaning Screens

Crops & Gardening | Equipment | Uncategorized |
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Save time and hassle in your seed-saving endeavor with this handmade tool for separating seeds from the chaff.

Hubbard Squash: More Than Harvest-Season Décor

Crops & Gardening
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Substitute this blue (and sometimes orange) winter squash into this year’s “pumpkin” pie for an extra-sweet and nutty flavor.

The Tradition Of Making Sorghum

Crops & Gardening | Homesteading |
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In Kentucky, the tradition of milling sweet sorghum and making it into a syrup runs just as deep as the crafting of bourbon.

Learn To Love Knotweed

Crops & Gardening
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Plants in this invasive family can cause quite a headache to gardeners—but they can also be used for good.

Prune Your Pumpkins

Crops & Gardening
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Get as many pumpkins as you can before the first frost by cutting back the vines now.

4 Things You Didn’t Know About The Blue Ash

Crops & Gardening
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As many ash trees become victims of the emerald ash borer, this particular species may have a better chance of survival.

Spicebush Swallowtail: My What Big Eyes You Have!

Crops & Gardening
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This butterfly doesn’t need Halloween as an excuse puts on a clever disguise—in fact, it’s clever camo might even save its life.

Hazelnuts: Feed Your Community & Heal Your Soil

Crops & Gardening | Farm Management |
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In the realm of restoration agriculture, the hazelnut tree can certainly pull its weight.

4 Tips For Keeping Deer Out Of Your Garden

Crops & Gardening
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Keep the deer from munching on your plants with these tried and true tips.

Knapweed: A Thistle Lookalike

Crops & Gardening
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Often looked at as an invasive, knapweed has historically been used as a natural medicine, treating anything from sores to digestive complaints.

4 Tips For Saving Seeds From The Squash Family

Crops & Gardening
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If you want to grow cucumbers, squash and melons while also saving seeds, you need to tread carefully.

Watch Out For The Blister Beetle

Crops & Gardening
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This lightning bug lookalike can cause a painful welt—hence its name—if it gets too close, not to mention defoliate your garden.

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