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This January Tidy & Organize Your Tools, Equipment

Equipment | Farm & Garden | Farm Management |
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Why not spend some time catching up on cleaning and organizing your barn, garage and/or tool shed? A clean and organized farm is a productive one.

4 New Year’s Farming Resolutions For 2024

Crops & Gardening | Equipment | Farm & Garden | Farm Management | News |
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Happy New Year! I’m already making plans for farming projects I intend to tackle in 2024. Here are four of my 2024 New Year’s farming resolutions.

3 Important Principles For Sustainable Ecosystem Design

Crops & Gardening | Farm & Garden | Farm Management | Permaculture |
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When building a sustainable ecosystem design in your garden or yard, keep these three principles top of mind when choosing what to plant where.

6 Ways To Put Your Brush Pile To Work

Farm & Garden | Farm Management | Homesteading | Permaculture |
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Don't just burn that brush pile, put it to work. From biochar to wildlife habitat and more, here are 6 ways to put sticks, limbs, branches and more to work.

Attract Good Bugs To Control Pest Insects On Your Crops

Crops & Gardening | Farm & Garden | Farm Management | Homesteading | Permaculture |
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As we come to understand the downsides of pesticides, integrated pest management offers better control for controlling pest insects on crops.

Preparing For A Successful Sheep Breeding Season

Animals | Farm & Garden | Farm Management | Homesteading | Large Animals |
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As the days begin to shorten, it's time to start thinking about the sheep breeding season all those cute spring lambs frolicking around my pasture.

Plan For Farm Water Concerns In A Changing Climate

Beginning Farmers | Crops & Gardening | Farm & Garden | Farm Management | Homesteading | News |
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Water is critical to life and essential on the farm. Water also stands to be an issue as our climate shifts, so plan now so you have enough (but not too much) water in the coming years.

Setting Up An Egg CSA For Your Community

Animals | Chickens 101 | Farm & Garden | Farm Management | Flock Talk | Poultry |
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Give your flock a job by setting up an egg CSA for feed funds, good food for your neighbors and food production education for those who want to know more.

4 Apps To Help Manage The Farm From Your Phone

Animals | Equipment | Farm & Garden | Farm Management | Foraging | Poultry | Poultry Equipment |
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Notebooks may be the proven way to track farm data, but you can manage your whole farm right from your phone with handy apps like these!

Recordkeeping Is A Useful Tool On The Hobby Farm

Farm & Garden | Farm Management |
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Sometimes, the most useful tool a farmer can have isn’t a powerful machine or a tried-and-true hand tool. It’s meticulous farm recordkeeping.

Design Your Dream Farm For Profitability & Resilience

Beginning Farmers | Crops & Gardening | Equipment | Farm & Garden | Farm Management | Permaculture |
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Many of us want to farm, but few of us truly understand what this means. Here are some tips for building a dream farm with long-term profitability and resilience.

Survey For Edible Ecosystem Design In New Mexico

Crops & Gardening | Farm & Garden | Farm Management | News | Permaculture |
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On a recent survey of New Mexico, author Zach Loeks noted a number of observations about growing edible ecosystems in arid environments.

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