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Hibiscus For Heart Health

Crops & Gardening
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This tropical plant has a native-growing cousin that can be added to your herbal medicine cabinet.

Delightfully Spicy DIY Fire Starters

Homesteading
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Add a touch of fragrance to your next fireplace fire or campfire by including aromatic herbs into your homemade fire starters.

Use Your ATV To Erect Farm Fencing

Equipment
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Lift the burden of doing fence-maintenance chores by letting your all-terrain vehicle do the heavy lifting.

Start A Community Seed Bank

Crops & Gardening
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Encourage the open exchange of seeds in your community to increase the diversity of seeds grown and encourage new gardeners to get started.

Q&A With Lufa Farms

Farm Management | Urban Farming |
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The world’s first commercial rooftop greenhouse serves up fresh fruits and veg, along with hopeful visions of a sustainable future

6 Food-Safety Lessons Farmers Can Learn From Chipotle

Farm Management | News |
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Use fast-and-casual restaurant Chipotle's recent food-safety issues to learn what not to do on your farm.

How To Re-Mediate Pig-Damaged Pastures

Farm Management | Large Animals |
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Rotate out your pig herd and replant the pasture with cover crops that will fix the trampled soil and provide a new dose of healthy forage.

Can’t Afford A Tractor? Use Your ATV/UTV To The Max

Equipment
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Let your off-road vehicle be your main workhorse until you’re ready to invest in larger farm equipment.

Q&A With The Please Pick Project

Urban Farming
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This New York town is transforming itself into a plentiful food forest, where its residents can harvest organic vegetables while strolling the sidewalks.

The Underappreciated Radish

Crops & Gardening | Urban Farming |
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As you start planning for the spring garden, don’t leave out this peppery vegetable that can be grown for the root and the greens.

Kids Craft: Plastic-Bottle Bird Feeders

Homesteading
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Upcycle used plastic containers into a bird feeder that will attract wild birds of all kinds to your farm.

Making Maple Syrup In The City

Urban Farming
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A picture book comes alive when one family decides to make maple syrup in their own backyard.

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