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Vegetable Garden Design Basics

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Design Your Garden for Easy Tending and Good Plant Health

Agrihood Life: Connect Agriculture to Neighborhoods

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Agrihoods Are a Relatively New & Rising U.S. Trend Connecting Neighbors, Land & Agriculture

Invest In Perennial Plants For Future Gardening Success

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Today's Wise Investment is Tomorrow's Effortless Bounty

Use a Low Tunnel This Spring for Earlier Harvests

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There comes a time when we all just want to start planting in our gardens again, and a low tunnel provides this earlier-is-better option.

Ecosystem Design Creates Potential, Builds Good Soil

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Ecosystem design, in mimicking characteristics of naturally occurring ecosystems, builds future potential and healthy soil for years of organic food production.

3 Important Principles For Sustainable Ecosystem Design

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When building a sustainable ecosystem design in your garden or yard, keep these three principles top of mind when choosing what to plant where.

All About Actinomycetes (Excerpt: “Microbe Science For Gardeners”)

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In this excerpt from "Microbe Science for Gardeners," author Robert Pavlis digs into why soil smells good and if dirt really helps depression.

With Ecosystem Design, Always Start With Biodiversity

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Good ecosystem design is a matter of applying key principles to our growing spaces, and biodiversity is a critical first step to sustainability in the garden.

Challenge Of Irrigating In Winter (Excerpt, “The Winter Market Gardener”)

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In this excerpt from "The Winter Market Gardener," authors Jean-Martin Fortier and Catherine Sylvestre explore irrigating winter garden crops.

6 Ways To Put Your Brush Pile To Work

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Don't just burn that brush pile, put it to work. From biochar to wildlife habitat and more, here are 6 ways to put sticks, limbs, branches and more to work.

Root Cellar Storage Guide: From Apples To Turnips

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Store these fruits and vegetables in the root cellar well past fall into late winter, then your early spring garden can take over.

Attract Good Bugs To Control Pest Insects On Your Crops

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As we come to understand the downsides of pesticides, integrated pest management offers better control for controlling pest insects on crops.

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