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6 Tips For Helping Your Carrots Beat Weeds

Crops & Gardening
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Timing, compost, cover and flame-weeders are among the ways to grow a great crop of carrots while weeds don't get a foothold.

4 Vegetables You Can Use As Natural Remedies

Crops & Gardening
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We often think of herbs when we think of natural remedies, but these vegetables have properties for our health beyond their vitamins and minerals.

Choose the Right Soil Test for Your Farm

Beginning Farmers | Crops & Gardening |
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Different kinds of nutrient analyses yield different results for the same soil, so it’s important to select the test that fits your needs

4 Steps to Replace the Rooster in Your Flock

Animals | Farm Management | Poultry |
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Predators or other extreme events can unexpectedly claim the life of your rooster. These tips will help you swiftly find a new flock leader.

Keep Your Farm ATV Alive With These Maintenance Tips

Equipment
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An all-terrain vehicle, or ATV, can be an essential farm tool, but getting years of use from one requires care and some periodic work.

Fruit Trees Overproducing? These Tips Can Help

Crops & Gardening | Equipment |
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Are your fruit trees producing more fruit than their branches can support? Help protect the trees from damage with these 3 useful tips.

Making Soil From Rock: Observing Nature at Work

Crops & Gardening | Farm Management |
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Visiting Maine, I learn that beaver dams, composting and persevering plants work far quicker to make soil in rocky areas than weathering and erosion.

Learn to Responsibly Raise Monarch Butterflies

Crops & Gardening | Farm Management |
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Raising monarch butterflies takes special equipment and attention. Sanitized, outdoor habitats and testing for parasites can increase survival rates.

How to Identify & Manage 4 Kale Pests

Crops & Gardening
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Kale is a popular garden crop, but it has certain problems. Learn about 4 common kale pests and how to manage them without synthetic pesticides.

Clover: Learn Its Many Uses for Health, Forage and Food

Animals | Crops & Gardening | Large Animals |
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Learn how you can use different species of clover for cover crops, hay, grazing, soil improvement and various health benefits.

“Ruffage” Applies Whole-Animal Butchery Principles to Vegetables

Homesteading | News | Recipes |
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Chef and farmer Abra Berens provides hundreds of recipes to cook vegetables in unexpected ways as well as knowledge on growing and storage.

7 Things to Consider When Buying a UTV

Equipment | Farm Management |
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The utility vehicle, or UTV, has benefits for work as well as recreation, but options vary widely by model. Here's what you need to know.

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