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Control Honeysuckle While Using It to Your Benefit

Farm Management | Homesteading |
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Honeysuckle can be invasive and overtake native plants, but you can help control populations of the shrub with these DIY projects.

An Antique Woodbox Connects Me to My Farm’s Past

Equipment
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Some 50 years after leaving the farm where it was built, an antique woodbox with a special construction style finally returns home.

Learn the Basics of Becoming an Herbalist

Crops & Gardening | Farm Management |
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As an herbalist, you can create products that have great flavor, nutrition and healing properties. Turn your home and garden into an herbal medicine chest.

The Wisdom of Women Farmers, Part 2: Thoughts on Money

Farm Management | Homesteading | News |
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Five women farmers over 50 share insight about their experiences in life and agriculture. In this second segment, the topic is money.

Want to Help Save the Monarch? Be a Citizen Scientist

Crops & Gardening | Farm Management | News | Urban Farming |
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Volunteering to report your observations helps conservationists to better gauge and manage threats to the monarch butterfly.

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.

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