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Take Care Of Your Garden Tools & They’ll Take Care Of You

Crops & Gardening | Equipment | Homesteading | Urban Farming |
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Cleaning, sharpening and repairing essential equipment now can help to improve next season's results. Here are some basic care tips for your garden tools.

Video: Performing A Late-Summer Hive Check

Beekeeping | Urban Farming |
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Winter's a rotten time to find out your bees are in trouble, so performing a late-summer hive check is critical to cold-weather success.

Grow Fall Radishes For Flavor & Storage

Crops & Gardening | Urban Farming |
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Unlike a spring radish, fall radishes grow slower for a deeper flavor. Grow watermelon radish, black radish and daikon radish for a wintertime treat.

Video: Sharpening And Maintaining A Reel Lawn Mower

Equipment | Urban Farming |
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An old-fashioned reel lawn mower may not require gasoline, but it does need semi-regular maintenance to perform at its peak.

Produce Profile: Try Collard Greens For Year-Round Nutrition

Crops & Gardening | Urban Farming |
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Collard greens are a delight to grow and to eat. These nutritious, hardy greens are staples in African Americans’ gardens and gardens in the South.

Meet The Folks Behind The Beloved Cabin, A Sustainable Tiny House

Crops & Gardening | Farm Management | Homesteading | Urban Farming |
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John and Fin Kernohan tell us about living in an off-grid, 304-square-foot tiny house (with a greenhouse bathhouse!) on their Georgia-based property.

At Flowertown Charm Goat Yoga & Homesteading Spread Joy

Animals | Farm Management | Large Animals | Urban Farming |
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Jenna Lee Panehal-Pelayo from the South Carolina mini-farm explains how goat yoga sessions with Nigerian Dwarf goats bring smiles to the faces of guests.

Grow Basil For Its Ease & Its Sensory Delights

Crops & Gardening | Urban Farming |
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Grow basil for a garden smell that stops you in your tracks and a taste in your cooking that will earn you rave reviews. This easy herb is a treat for the senses.

Bring The Heat With Ghost Peppers, Carolina Reapers

Crops & Gardening | Urban Farming |
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With enough lead time, reputable seed sources and a few tips, you can succeed with (extremely!) hot stuff like ghost peppers and Carolina Reapers.

Produce Profile: Fall In Love With Bunching Onions

Crops & Gardening | Urban Farming |
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Where green onions and bulb onions meet, we have bunching onions for year-round garden growing.

Green Birdflower Is A Different Kind of ‘Hummingbird Plant’

Crops & Gardening | Farm Management | Urban Farming |
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Have fun but keep novelty plants like green birdflower in check when adding them to your landscape.

Build Healthy Soil Naturally With Probiotic Farming

Crops & Gardening | Farm Management | Urban Farming |
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Also sometimes called biointensive agriculture, probiotic farming feeds the land in natural ways for healthy soil and improved crops.

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