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Ventilate Your Coop

Beginning Farmers | Homesteading | Poultry | Urban Farming |
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Different from a draft, coop ventilation is needed year-round to keep your flock from getting sick or frostbitten.

Sharpen Up On Scythes

Crops & Gardening | Equipment | Urban Farming |
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Looking for a more sustainable option for your mower or weed whacker? The scythe could be your answer.

Urban Farm Hack: Get an Eco-Smart Christmas Tree

Crops & Gardening | Urban Farming |
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This year, consider decorating with a Christmas tree that can be planted outdoors after the holiday festivities come to an end.

UF Hack: Drink Your Basil Seeds

Crops & Gardening | Recipes | Urban Farming |
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Letting your basil plants go to seed isn’t a bad thing—use the seeds in internationally inspired drinks and desserts.

UF Hack: An Advent Calendar Of Seeds

Crops & Gardening | Urban Farming |
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Inspire green thoughts in the darker months by counting down the days until Christmas using heirloom seeds.

Q&A With The Living Christmas Tree Company

Crops & Gardening | Farm Management | Urban Farming |
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Oh, Christmas tree! Fill your heart with extra holiday cheer by renting a live Christmas tree this year instead of buying one.

6 Facts About Urban Coyotes

Farm Management | Poultry | Urban Farming |
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Once a predator of the western desert, the coyote is making its way into suburbia across the U.S. Here’s what you need to know.

Chicken First Aid: How to Treat a Sick or Injured Chicken

Animals | Poultry | Urban Farming |
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A sick or injured chicken’s road to recovery starts with the chicken keeper.

5 Apps To Make You A Better Chicken Keeper

Poultry | Urban Farming |
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Select breeds, monitor hatching and keep your coop organized with one of these apps, suited for beginning to experienced chicken keepers.

How to Make Lacto-Fermented Mushrooms

Crops & Gardening | Urban Farming |
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Whether you grow, forage, or buy mushrooms, this fermentation technique is a nutritious and delicious way to preserve them.

UF Hack: How to Grow Your Own Mistletoe

Crops & Gardening | Urban Farming |
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This traditional holiday décor encompasses multiple species of plants that parasitize trees—and they’re good for biome diversity, too!

UF Hack: Don’t Let Mushy Pickles Go To Waste

Homesteading | Recipes | Urban Farming |
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Put your home-preserved veggies to use in these cornmeal-cake snacks.

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