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Garden In Front: Sharpen Your Digging Tools By Hand

Crops & Gardening
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Keep your shovels, spades and hoes in tip-top shape for spring gardening with this simple maintenance project.

UF Hack: Know When To Let It Go

Homesteading | Urban Farming |
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As much as you think you can, it’s impossible to “do it all,” so for your sanity’s sake, gracefully say goodbye to the projects no longer serving you or your homestead.

Farm Sprouts: Bedtime Bath Teas

Homesteading
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Create a relaxing bath-time ritual with your children to softly segue them into bedtime stories and sleep.

UF Hack: Prevent Illegal Dumping In Your Community Garden

Urban Farming
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Litter drifting into your garden can be a huge bummer. Join forces with the surrounding community to put your city’s trash problem to bed.

Dirt On Gardening: 5 Easy Houseplants To Grow In Low Light

Crops & Gardening
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Enjoy living plants indoors year-round, even if natural light is hard to come by in your home.

Chicken Quarters: 3 Solutions for Aggression Within the Flock

Animals | Poultry | Urban Farming |
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Handle a nuisance hen or rooster with one of these three proven methods.

Burning Question: What Makes A Family Farm A Family Farm?

Beginning Farmers
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"Family farm” is a generic term that means many different things to many different people. Here’s one farmer’s take.

Win Over Native Bees with These 5 Hospitality Secrets

Beekeeping | Crops & Gardening |
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We sure hope native bees aren’t going anywhere, but without some TLC (and possibly some swooning), they’re likely to take their bee bodies elsewhere.

Keep Your Farm in the Black with 6 Record-keeping Tips

Farm Management
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Downtime in the off-season is the perfect opportunity to get your farm business on track with proper record-keeping strategies.

4 Ways to Grow Your Garden Without Seeds

Crops & Gardening
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These propagation techniques will help you increase garden production—no seeds required!

Burning Question: Is It Really Better To Buy Local?

Beginning Farmers
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“Buy Local” is the rally cry of small-scale farmers everywhere, but choosing what items you purchase may need to be decided on a product-by-product basis.

UF Hack: Snow Insulation

Crops & Gardening | Urban Farming |
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Pack on a blanket of snow around your overwintering crops to keep your garden nice and cozy until spring weather arrives.

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