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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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4 Healthy Sweet Potato Recipes
Try these 4 delicious, healthy sweet potato recipes for your next get-together.
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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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Agritourism: A Money-Making Agriculture Business
Can inviting farm visitors fuel a successful money-making agriculture business? It’s called agritourism and yes, it can!
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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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Putting Agritourism Ideas to Work on Family Farms
Farming is tough. But agritourism ideas help people pay bills and create the lives they want for their families.
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Fun and Flavorful Garlic Scapes Recipes
Garlic scapes are the long, green flowering tops of garlic that have been planted in the ground. The first in my list of favorite garlic scapes recipes was pretty simple: cutting up fresh garlic scapes on homemade pizza.
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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!). Find out how to feed it to your backyard chickens and how easy growing garlic can be.
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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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What You Can, and Can’t, Can
Just about anything you would grow in your garden may be preserved by canning. Only a few foods cannot be safely canned at all, some may be canned in one form but not another, and still others don’t hold up well under the prolonged heat of processing.
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