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4 Hand Tools That Can Benefit Your Farm

Crops & Gardening | Equipment |
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These hand tools offer a variety of advantages to your farm, including promoting soil health, controlling weeds and improving efficiency.

How to Delay Bolting of Your Spring Greens

Crops & Gardening
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Tricking cool-season greens into believing it's not quite summer is essential to learning how to delay bolting and extend the harvest of these plants. Learn five ways you can delay bolting.

How to Safely Move Young Trees Long Distances

Crops & Gardening | Equipment |
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Transporting live, young trees might seem difficult, but with a utility trailer, some blankets and plenty of rope, you can move them safely.

Know These 3 Invasive Plants From Their Native Look-alikes

Farm Management | Urban Farming |
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Native species can be great for your property's looks and ecosystem, but avoid unknowingly introducing one of these invasive plants that look similar.

Hostas: The Leafy Green You Didn’t Know You Could Eat

Crops & Gardening
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Before hostas made their way into our ornamental gardens, they were enjoyed by the Japanese as an edible.

Should Your Farm Make a Value-Added Product?

Beginning Farmers | Farm Management |
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Making value-added products such as pickled vegetables, jam or even wine from what you already produce could improve business. First, ask some questions.

4 Ways to Improve Your Farm’s Vegetable Harvests

Beginning Farmers | Crops & Gardening | Farm Management |
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Improving the efficiency of vegetable harvests on your farm can save your business time and money. Follow these tips to make that happen.

Chicks for Profit: Launch a Custom Hatching Business

Animals | Farm Management | Poultry |
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Do you want to convert your love of hatching chicks into a viable home business? Follow these steps to hatch chicks for other people.

Save Money: Use Trees as Fence Posts

Crops & Gardening | Equipment |
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While building a deer-proof fence for my orchard, I've put trees to use as fence posts, significantly reducing the cost of the project.

Healing Herbs: Easy Herbs to Grow for Every Garden

Crops & Gardening | Homesteading |
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Start your garden small with just a few common miracle-worker herbs such as chamomile and lavender, then progress from there.

Farm Storehouse: 7 Products to Help Your Farm Run Better

Animals | Equipment | Large Animals |
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New ATVs and UTVs, a zero-turn mower, farm clothes for kids and a wearable pet-bathing tool are among the useful items our editors found.

7 Ways to Keep Your Greens Looking Fresh at Market

Crops & Gardening | Farm Management |
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Follow these steps to keep your greens looking fresh from the day you harvest them until late in the day at the farmers market.

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