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5 Tips For Kitchen Composting

Crops & Gardening | Urban Farming |
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Don’t let your compost scrap container become a smelly nuisance in your kitchen.

Groundnuts Aren’t Peanuts

Crops & Gardening | Urban Farming |
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This root vegetable can be foraged, but it’s also perfect for container gardening.

Garden Obsession: Fruit-Flavored Mints

Crops & Gardening | Urban Farming |
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You’ve mastered peppermint and spearmint—now, grow fruit-flavored mints to add new depth to summer fruit salads and cocktails.

Community Gardening: Food + Framily

Urban Farming
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Now there's a community garden in every major city, where people come together to grow fresh food—and it doesn't look like the trend will end anytime soon.

Save Time In Your Home Garden With Plasticulture

Crops & Gardening | Urban Farming |
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With black landscape fabric, you can easily control weed pressure and soil moisture even when your schedule is tight.

What Are Bantams?

Animals | Poultry | Urban Farming |
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Scale down your flock—in size not number—by keeping small-scale chicken breeds called bantams.

How Much Coop Space Do Your Chickens Really Need?

Animals | Poultry | Urban Farming |
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Provide enough room in the coop and run so that your chickens can live out happy, healthy lives.

Bee Swarm Rescued From NYC’s Grand Central Station

News | Urban Farming |
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In the midst of fighting crime, the NYPD also saves swarms of bees.

How To Give Your Chicken A Bath

Animals | Poultry | Urban Farming |
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Sometimes your backyard poultry need a little more than a dust-bathing—this just might be one of those times.

How Much Chicken Feed Does A Flock Need?

Animals | Poultry | Urban Farming |
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Make sure your chickens are getting the right size meals to make the eggs or meat you're raising them for.

Short On Space? Grow Rhubarb In Containers

Crops & Gardening | Urban Farming |
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Making your rhubarb garden mobile by planting in containers.

That’s One Place We Never Expected To Find Pig Poo!

News | Urban Farming |
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When it comes to dealing what seems like the world's never-ending pile of pig poo, the answer is fairly concrete.

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