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5 Ways to Support Your Local-Food Coordinator—If You Have One

Urban Farming
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A local-food coordinator may be hard at work connecting farmers and food purchasers in your community, but its not a job they can do alone.

3 Tips For the Best-Tasting Goat’s Milk

Animals | Large Animals | Urban Farming |
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Take the yuck out of goat’s milk: These tips for milking your backyard goats will help keep your homegrown milk safe and delicious.

Can Eating Local Be The New Norm?

Urban Farming
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For America as a whole to embrace local food, something’s gotta give in the way we think about eating.

Why Every Homebrewer Needs a Refractometer

Urban Farming
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A refractometer, while useful in home wine or beer production, can be used in multiple ways around the homestead to ensure consistent, quality final products.

Raw Baking How-To

Urban Farming
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Try your hand at these two raw desserts to open up your your palate to a new style of eating.

4 Reasons to Start a Hay-Bale Garden

Urban Farming
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Need some convincing to start a garden with hay bales? We’ve got a few things that might persuade you.

5 Best Places to Find Heirloom Seeds

Urban Farming
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Grow a pest- and disease-free garden rich in diversity by paying attention to where you source your seeds.

DIY Pest Spray

Urban Farming
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Cut down on a pest infestation with this simple, natural control technique using materials you already have at home.

Dirty Kids Equal Healthy Kids

Urban Farming
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Emerging research points out that the backyard garden just may be the cure for what ails us.

Chicken Vs. Goat Manure: Which Is Best?

Animals | Large Animals | Poultry | Urban Farming |
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Your backyard livestock have more to offer than eggs and milk: They can provide fertilizer for your garden as well.

How to Host an Urban-Ag Forum

Urban Farming
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Give urban farming and local food a chance to thrive in your city by inviting election candidates to hash out their stances on the subject.

6 Compost Problems and How to Fix Them

Crops & Gardening | Urban Farming |
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Composting is pretty easy, but every once in awhile, you run into a snafu. Use these tips to troubleshoot your problems.

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