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4 Ways to Protect Your Pumpkins From Vine Borers

Crops & Gardening
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If squash vine borers are on your farm and protection isn’t in place, don’t count on growing your own Halloween jack-o’-lantern this year.

Infographic: Grow Frost-Tolerant Vegetables in the Cool Season

Homesteading
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Extend your garden-fresh eating season with these tips for cool-season gardening.

Planting Our New Juniper

Crops & Gardening
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I visited a local nursery last week in hopes of finding a conical evergreen to replace a small redbud tree at the front corner of our house that died. I hit the jackpot when I found a ball-and-burlap Robusta Green juniper (Juniperus chinensis) for a reasonable price.

Management Intensive Grazing

Animals | Farm Management | Video |
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A daily grazing rotation could make or break your livestock pastures. Watch on for sustainability tips.

A Tour Through the Historical Franklin Cider Mill

Homesteading
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We’re all for making our own cider, especially with our farming friends, but on a trip through Michigan, we couldn’t pass up the opportunity to visit one of about 160 remaining historic cider mills in the nation.

Turnip Greens Skillet Dinner

Urban Farming
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Photo by Judith Hausman Try some turnip greens this season. I recently volunteered at a local food-bank garden and came home with a bonus bag of tender turnip thinnings. The farmer grows a lot of turnips in this unfenced plot (that was once the lawn of a stately home) because the deer seem to leave […]

Top That Counter

Homesteading
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While we’ve tried to tackle most of our home renovation projects on our own, there was one project that seemed well outside our realm of skills and physical abilities: countertops.

18 Vegetables for Your Autumn Garden

Crops & Gardening
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Fall is rich with hearty root vegetables and nutritious greens. Give the garden one last go before winter arrives with these cool-loving crops.

Passionately Curious

Homesteading
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I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious. —Albert Einstein

8 Healing Uses for Farm-grown Herbs

Crops & Gardening | Homesteading |
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Put away the first-aid kit. Your farmland is home to a number of medicinal herbs that can be used to treat what ails you.

The Art of Chokes

Crops & Gardening
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I spent a few hours last evening working in my vegetable garden. It was time to harvest the winter squash and pull out the tomato vines.

Peach … Something

Urban Farming
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Photo by Judith Hausman This dessert-without-a-name could just be called “delicious.” Not a pie, not a crisp, not quite a cobbler — still, this easy, seat-of-the-pants peach-something dessert was my solution for six or so seriously overripe peaches. I have enough peach jam, I didn’t have enough fruit to mount a canning operation and I find that […]

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