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Start Saving Your Own Vegetable Seeds

Beginning Farmers | Crops & Gardening | Farm & Garden | Homesteading |
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Save seeds from these common garden vegetables to trim the budget, grow better plants and gain some interesting gift-giving options!

5 Productive Garden Vegetables Every Homestead Should Grow

Beginning Farmers | Crops & Gardening | Farm & Garden | Homesteading |
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Gardening can be both costly and time-consuming, so plant these 5 productive vegetables to ensure you get back a bountiful return on investment!

Green Haven Farmstead Directly Connects Family To Food Source

Animals | Beginning Farmers | Farm & Garden | Homesteading | Large Animals | Poultry |
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Green Haven Farmstead founder Clark Green tells us how the Ohio family venture runs on a shared spirit and a lot of hard work.

Save Seeds From Annual Flowers With These Tips

Crops & Gardening | Farm & Garden | Homesteading |
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Save seeds today to save money next year! Here are some tips for saving seeds from 5 of the simplest annual flowers you may already have in your garden.

Head-Clipping Weevils Devastate Coneflowers, Sunflowers, Other Aster Family Members

Beginning Farmers | Crops & Gardening | Farm & Garden | Homesteading |
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Head-clipping weevils can cause major destruction in a pollinator garden, so here's what to look for and how to stop Haplorhynchites aeneus in its tracks.

Recipe: Preserve Blueberry Season With This Classic Jam

Farm & Garden | Food | Homesteading | Recipes |
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This recipe for a classic blueberry jam is as easy to make as it is delicious, and the preserves make for great gifts or a midwinter treat!

Welcoming The Winsome Fly, Japanese Beetles’ Bane 

Crops & Gardening | Farm & Garden | Homesteading | Permaculture |
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A natural predator introduced to control destructive Japanese beetles, the winsome fly is starting to take off in our environment. Here's how to use this beneficial bug.

Climate Change Complicates Things For Pollinators, Plants

Crops & Gardening | Farm & Garden | Homesteading | News | Permaculture |
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As seasonal conditions change, relationships between plants and pollinators are thrown off. Here's what that means and how you can help.

Simplify Garden Watering With Some Hose Splitters

Crops & Gardening | Equipment | Farm & Garden | Homesteading |
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Have you ever tried to navigate a long hose through a large garden? It’s not nearly as easy as it sounds. That's when hose splitters come to the rescue.

Important Lessons For A Beautiful, Organic Lawn

Farm & Garden | Farm Management | Homesteading |
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In addition to being safer and more environmentally friendly, an organic lawn will also appear nicer. Here's how to go organic in your lawn care.

Pick Purple Clover For Its Many Health Benefits

Crops & Gardening | Farm & Garden | Foraging | Homesteading | Permaculture |
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Purple clover is great for soil and livestock, and we humans can forage and benefit from this healthy herb, too. Here's how to ID, forage and use purple clover.

Recipe: Quick Pickled Spicy Sugar Snap Peas 

Crops & Gardening | Farm & Garden | Food | Homesteading | Recipes |
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This simple recipe for pickled spicy sugar snap peas makes a delicious refrigerator snack without steaming up the kitchen on humid summer days!

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