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Rhubarb Confession

Urban Farming
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Photo by Judith Hausman Vanilla-poached rhubarb with cornmeal-cardamom biscuits. I walk past a rhubarb patch in (let’s call her) Mrs. Bloom’s yard nearly every day. Two years ago, I saw that while she is a wonderful gardener well into her 80s, Mrs. Bloom was not pulling her rhubarb. The gnarly flower stalk was unfurling and […]

Baby Jo Strikes Back

Urban Farming
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For a hen at the bottom of the pecking order, Baby Jo really doesn’t have it that bad. But her status in the group is painfully obvious when the eating is good.

Fava Beans

Urban Farming
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Interested in growing fava beans? Here are my tips.

Chicken Troubles

Animals | Crops & Gardening | Poultry |
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Trouble with the chickens these days. They are flying over the veggie garden fence and destroying it.

Return of the Turkeys, Part 1

Homesteading
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"Most teens’ moms leave notes like ‘There’s lasagna in the fridge, I’ll be back at six,’” my daughter Kelsey observed today. "My life is so weird.”

Gridiron to Garden Glory

Urban Farming
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Courtesy PepsiCo Food for Good Initiative The Food for Good Farm, a joint urban farm project between PepsiCo and Paul Quinn College, was built on the college’s former football field. In a place like Dallas, Texas—one of the U.S.’s top burgeoning cities in a state that hosts some of the country’s best ranch land—it’s hard […]

Grilling Guidelines

Homesteading | Recipes |
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Stay healthy while you enjoy summer fare on the grill with these tips.

Sprayer Safety

Equipment
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While we buy a fair amount of organic produce and attempt to raise our fruits and vegetables as chemical free as we can, there are times we still resort to pesticides.

Apple Trees

Urban Farming
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In the seductive showing of spring, the get-up I look for and like best is the apple blossoms.

Abbey Road: Working Farm and Bed-and-Breakfast

Beginning Farmers
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Learn how an Oregon working-farm bed-and-breakfast repurposed its existing buildings to create unique accommodations and experiences for guests.

The Saga of Baby Jo

Urban Farming
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We never intended to have roosters, but when two of the rescue "pullets” we adopted grew long wattles and flowing tails, we realized the chicken life on our urban farm would be different than what we had imagined.

Cottage-garden Fever

Urban Farming
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Cottage gardens are chaotic mixes of one of this and one of that, and while the big mess may be quite charming sometimes, the unfortunate result is a lack of fundamental power.

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