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Growing Hops For Profit

Crops & Gardening | Farm Management |
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With the homebrew boom comes a much-needed resource: farm-grown hops.

What You Need To Know About Woodstoves

Homesteading
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Heating your home with wood can be a great way to create coziness inside during the winter, but before you buy, here’s what you need to think about.

Farmhouse Chores For Children Of All Ages

Homesteading
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Get your household into tip-top shape before garden season revs up by enlisting your kids to help with the cleanup.

Stubble Grazing Your Cattle

Animals | Farm Management | Large Animals |
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Turning cattle onto harvested fields is a great way to use forage and save money.

Garden Pests 101: Get To Know the Aphid

Crops & Gardening
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This fast-producing pest family is likely to cause many headaches in your garden this year.

6 Tasks For Winterizing Your Landscape

Homesteading
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Things may slow down around the farm in winter, but here are some tips for making your home more efficient and preventing winter damage to your garden.

5 Trees That Shouldn’t Be Planted Near Livestock

Animals | Crops & Gardening | Farm Management |
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Keep your animals safe from the potential harm of some trees by not planting them in or around your grazing pastures.

UF Hack: Grow Microgreens Without Soil

Urban Farming
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Often confused with “sprouts,” microgreens only comprise the above-ground parts of the plant, rather than everything from root to shoot.

5 New Vegetables To Grow In 2016

Crops & Gardening
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This year’s seed catalogs are packed with intriguing new crop varieties. Here’s a sneak peek at what’s in store.

Green Roof Benefits

Urban Farming
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Sustainable city living means taking advantage of every inch of space, and green roofs—or meadows in the sky, as they’re sometimes called—are an excellent way to do that, benefiting both building residents and the environment. Green roofs have been around since the days of Laura Ingalls, the girl heroine of the Little House on the […]

Boost Chickens’ Protein Intake With Mealworms

Poultry | Urban Farming |
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With egg-laying season ramping up, provide your backyard flock with a protein boost by supplementing their diet with mealworms.

Maintaining Cast Iron Cookware: Solve 4 Common Problems

Homesteading
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Nothing beats the long-term dependability of cast iron, but it never hurts to give your trusty kitchen sidekick a little boost.

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