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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.

Fashion-Forward Gardening: An Urban Dyer’s Garden

Farm Management | Urban Farming |
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Liz Spencer, The Dogwood Dyer, provides a model for creating a beautiful urban garden specifically geared toward creating natural dyes.

This Is What You Need For Successful Indoor Gardening

Urban Farming
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Don’t let winter’s cold weather get you down. Keep your garden growing strong—indoors!—with these tips.

A Pawpaw Germination Experiment

Urban Farming
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Join author Lynsey Grosfield in testing the germination limits of this little-known North American native fruit.

UF Hack: Moonshine From Vegetable Scraps

Urban Farming
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Your food scraps don’t have to be destined for the compost bin or the stock pot. Perhaps it’s time to engage in a little Prohibition-style fun.

UF Hack: Winter Pruning

Crops & Gardening | Urban Farming |
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Use the slow winter gardening season to prune back fruit trees, shrubs and vines so you have more to harvest next year.

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