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10 Citrus Trees You Can Grow In Pots

Crops & Gardening | Urban Farming |
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Your winter can be a whole lot sunnier if you grow one of this bright citrus fruits indoors during the cold season.

UF Confessional: I Took The Eat Local Challenge

Urban Farming
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Committing to buying my food locally opened my eyes bigtime to the way I consume food.

Maximize Vertical Space In Your Urban Orchard

Urban Farming
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Squeeze your favorite fruits in your your limited urban space by implementing one or more of these alternative tree-growing methods

Q&A With Farmgirl Flowers

Urban Farming
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Farmgirl Flowers delivers more than bouquets—this bike-powered flower vendor offers a promise of sustainability, as well.

Include Your Kids In Container Gardening

Urban Farming
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Enlist your children’s help in growing food by making container gardening even more fun!

UF Hack: A DIY Start To Strawberries

Crops & Gardening | Urban Farming |
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Increase the size of your strawberry bed using this simple and cost-free propagation technique.

4 Ways to Grow Mushrooms

Crops & Gardening | Urban Farming |
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Build a mushroom bed suited to your urban farm and the species of mushroom you wish to grow with these guidelines.

UF Hack: Wattle Fences

Urban Farming
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Build raised beds, fences and more for free by using this age-old fencing method.

UF Hack: Plant A Meadow

Urban Farming
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There is no better way to bring (wild)life into the garden than planting a diverse buffet of flowering plants.

The Truth Behind Kissing Chickens

Poultry | Urban Farming |
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Jen Good/Flickr As a backyard flock owner, it’s tempting to dismiss the Center for Disease Control’s warnings about close contact with your chickens being a health risk. It’s not like you have a factory farm with overcrowding that leads to disease, which leads to overuse of drugs, which leads to drug-resistant disease mutations, which spread […]

UF Hack: Low-Cost Garden Fence Posts

Crops & Gardening | Equipment | Homesteading | Urban Farming |
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Protecting your prize crop doesn’t have to be expensive. It just takes a little creative problem-solving with what you use for fence posts.

How Cutting-Edge Rooftop Farmers Pay the Bills

Urban Farming
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In the harsh climate of a city rooftop, it takes thinking outside the box to grow food at a profit.

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