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Leaf Function and Anatomy: A Conversation
Leaves perform three essential functions, and the most critical one is producing food for the plant.
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Healthy Homemade Fruit Roll-Ups Recipe
Skirt artificial ingredients, high-fructose corn syrup, and high prices by choosing your own favorite fruits and making your own fruit roll-ups recipe.
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A Garden Vegetables List for Weight Loss
This garden vegetables list is packed full of easy-to-grow vegetables to help you reach and maintain a healthy weight.
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Growing Sweet, Seductive Mint
Consider growing mint in your garden this year. Just make sure to keep it controlled, or you may find it seducing its way across your garden.
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How to Make Vinegar and Other Vinegar Basics
Learn how to make vinegar (and its interesting history!) in this article.
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The Power of Potatoes
So much food goes to waste every day. Storing our homegrown foods for future use is one way of stopping much of this waste.
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Potatoes Offer Healthy Sustainability
Most of us enjoy eating potatoes, but only a small number of us grow our own. And yet, planting and harvesting potatoes is one of the simplest and highest-yielding crops to grow.
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10 Alternative Agritourism Examples for Your Small Farm
Check out these 10 alternative agritourism examples and see the possibilities of your farm!
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Fun and Flavorful Garlic Scapes Recipes
Don’t have any garlic scapes handy? No worries. You can substitute green onions in most of these garlic scapes recipes.
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Growing Garlic For Backyard Chickens
I often get asked what can chickens eat? Garlic has some really amazing health benefits for chickens (and humans!).
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Building a Cheap, Seasonal Greenhouse
A greenhouse can be crucial for extending the growing season. It keeps plants warm while letting in a full day’s worth of sunlight.
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Food Preservation Methods for an Abundant Tomato Harvest
Add to Favorites As an herbalist, I’m always thinking of ways to use the abundance of herbs this time of year. Couple that with a huge tomato harvest and it’s …
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How to Sell Produce to Restaurants: 11 Tips for Modern Farmers
Add to Favorites Knowing how to sell produce to restaurants is another part of farming, says Wendy Baroli. “If you’re in the business of farming, you also have to be …
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Preparing for Market
Add to Favorites By Alexis Griffee Many farmers have perfected their trade on the farm, yet have no formal training or experience in how to market themselves or their farms to …
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A Guide to Pepper Plant Diseases
Add to Favorites Hot, sweet, purple, yellow, wrinkly or bell – I love all peppers. If you find yourself wanting to harvest your peck of peppers, but are having trouble …
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