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5 Fall Weed Control Tips

Crops & Gardening
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This is a great time of year to get a grip on weeds. These fall weed control tips offer actions you can take today to limit weed growth tomorrow.

Make a Raised Garden Bed in 2 to 3 Hours

Crops & Gardening | Homesteading | Urban Farming |
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Follow our instructions to build a simple raised garden bed that you can have ready for spring as well as fall gardening.

What to Look for When Buying a Jigsaw

Equipment
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As with many power tools, if you're not familiar with it, you can quickly become overwhelmed by features and terms you don't understand. Here are the basics about the jigsaw.

In “Mast Years,” Trees Strategize by Overproducing Nuts and Seeds

Crops & Gardening | Farm Management |
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That overabundance of acorns is not a mistake, but rather trees' coordinated effort to reproduce, affecting rodents, insects and humans.

5 Tips for Picking and Processing Persimmons

Beginning Farmers | Crops & Gardening | Homesteading |
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How can you continue with life knowing that persimmons, the fruit of the gods, is growing in your backyard? You just can’t.

Relevance of “The New Organic Grower” Advances With Updated Edition

Farm Management | News |
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Eliot Coleman refines and modernizes the methods he introduced in the book's first edition 30 years ago.

5 Steps to Winterizing a Backyard Pond

Crops & Gardening | Farm Management |
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Winterizing a backyard pond isn't difficult, but it does have several important steps. Learn how to prepare your backyard water feature for the winter.

Make the Best Use of Fertilizer in Small Spaces

Crops & Gardening
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Nurseries are beautiful places, but they can be very confusing when it comes to fertilizer. Here's how to make the best choices for the plants in your container garden.

C-Clamps and F-Clamps: How They Differ & Why You Need Them

Equipment
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The mechanisms and strength of these clamps can differ slightly, but each one can help across a broad range of project types.

Winterize Your Chicken Waterer: From Buy to DIY

Animals | Poultry | Urban Farming |
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Water is important to your flock—make sure your waterer resists freezing during decreasing temperatures in winter.

Get to Know the Magical Melipona, the Stingless Bees of Central America

Beekeeping | Crops & Gardening |
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These tree-nesting bees and the honey they produce were considered sacred in ancient Mayan cultures.

6 Ways to Market and Sell Turnips

Crops & Gardening | Farm Management |
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You can grow turnips year-round in some areas, and while they're not always the easiest vegetable to sell, try these methods to find and attract buyers.

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