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What Are Root-Knot Nematodes?

Crops & Gardening
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Understand how these microscopic pests work so you can spot their damage and save your crop.

Chocolate-Covered Bacon

Homesteading
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You and your family can reward yourselves for a hard-days work with this easy recipe for chocolate-covered bacon.

How To Make Your Saved Seeds Last

Crops & Gardening
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How you harvest, dry and store the seeds you’re saving for next year’s garden will play a big part in their viability.

Prevent Japanese-Beetle Damage

Urban Farming
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Hand-pick these metallic pests off your grapes, berries and corn to prevent them from ruining your crop.

Mapping Out My Winter Garden

Beginning Farmers
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My Northern California climate allows me to grow a garden all winter, so I’m busy figuring out just what I want in my garden beds.

About Strawberry Farms

Crops & Gardening
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Start a strawberry farm for U-pick, for sale and for your own delicious strawberries.

Tithonia: A Winner In The Garden

Crops & Gardening
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A pollinator’s best friend and a flower that no pest can take down, tithonia is one flower you’ll want in your garden year after year.

This Little Piggy Went To Instagram

News | Urban Farming |
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Jewelweed For Your Skin And Just For Fun

Crops & Gardening
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While touch-me-nots are one of nature’s funnest games, these plants will also stop poison ivy in its tracks.

Preparing The Flock For Hurricanes And Tornadoes

Poultry | Urban Farming |
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Rachel Hurd Anger Any suggestions for chickens and hurricanes in Florida? Leave them in the coop? Lock them in the shed? What’s best for them? —Jeff, via Facebook I love this question. Because my experience is raising chickens in Kentucky, I generally focus on the severe weather most common to me: thunderstorms and snowstorms, though […]

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