Understanding Your Soil: How to Check Soil pH Level
Add to Favorites Knowing how to check soil pH levels in your garden is the first step to having the healthiest soil you can produce. For most of us, especially …
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Homemade Barbecue Pits: A Fun Way to Fertilize Your Soil
An ancient concept, homemade barbecue pits incorporate three things: fire, the ground, and food.
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The K.I.S.S. Approach to How to Make Compost
Add to Favorites By Mark Staneart – I imagine I first heard the word “compost” about 40 years ago. Around the same time, I first encountered the word “organic.” Since …
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How to Care for Apple Trees
If you’re wondering how to care for apple trees, then you should first consider that trees should be fed just like your vegetable-producing and ornamental plants.
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The Benefits of Deep Mulch Gardening
Add to Favorites By Willene Overfelt – I got tired of having to wait for the ground to dry out to be worked in spring and decided to try deep …
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Winterize Your Garden with a Cover Crop of Austrian Winter Peas
As you harvest the last of summer’s vegetables, sowing Austrian winter peas is an ideal way to protect your precious garden soil through the winter.
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Bring in the Drones
Add to Favorites Often called “flying robotic snoops” capable of crop surveillance, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are known as “Drones.” Experts predict nearly 8,000 drones could be flying over the …
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Digging Holes 101
Since the dawn of agrarian culture, we’ve been inventing and reinventing ways to keep domesticated animals contained. Many things in our culture have radically changed such as how we communicate, but by in large, fence technology hasn’t really changed all that much.
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Outsmarting a Deere
Add to Favorites Nothing can stop a homesteader with a skid steer. Piles of snow, mountains of manure, hills of gravel—all are easily handled with the help of a skid …
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Illinois Farmer Finds Labor Savings and Versatility with Skid Steer Grapple
Add to Favorites by Mike Kloster, President of Worksaver, Inc. – Farmer Tom Justison recently bought a Sweep Action Rock Grapple (SARG) from Worksaver, Inc. to use on his family farm …
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