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A Simple Guide to Yard Carts

Equipment
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For transporting small loads short distances, a yard cart is what you need.

Barn Owls On The Prowl

Farm Management
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For keeping farm rodents in check, a resident barn owl is what you need.

Spot Leafminer Flies At Work

Crops & Gardening
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You know those squiggly lines you find on your crop foliage from time to time? It’s the work of a leafminer fly.

7 Tips For Planting Garlic

Crops & Gardening | Video |
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This is the last crop you'll plant this season—but make sure it gets into the ground!

Rural Survival: Get To Know Your Neighbors

Beginning Farmers
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A farmhouse just isn’t a home until you know your neighbors.

Embrace Your Inner Wild With Native Plants

Urban Farming
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Add native plants to your urban landscape to remind yourself of your roots.

Sow Spinach In Fall—Not Spring

Crops & Gardening
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By changing up when you sow spinach seeds, you can get a bigger, better harvest.

How To Manage Week-To-Week CSA Members

Farm Management
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Although counter to the CSA model of marketing, allowing week-to-week members could attract new loyal customers.

Name That Green!

Crops & Gardening
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What’s red, orange or yellow and pretty all over? Chard, that’s what!

Axes, Mattocks & Mauls: Which Do You Need?

Equipment
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When it comes to tree management without the use of modern machinery, these simple time-tested tools can help get the job done.

Could Pressure-Treated Lumber Be OK For Your Garden?

Urban Farming
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Pressure-treated lumber isn’t made the same way it once was, so it could be time to reassess its place on the farm.

Tiger Beetles: Master Hunters In Disguise

Crops & Gardening
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This stealthy and voracious hunter is one good bug you definitely want in your garden to keep pests in check.

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