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Improving Soil with Cattle and The Best Green Manure Crops
Add to Favorites Reading Time: 5 minutes By Heather Thomas, Salmon, Idaho Holistic grazing and the best green manure crops naturally improve soil. Add legumes or rotational cattle grazing to...
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What is Rotational Grazing and Why is it Misunderstood?
Add to Favorites Reading Time: 5 minutes With Spencer Smith – Many people want to know what is rotational grazing and why is it misunderstood? Good grazing practices are often thought of as rotational...
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Homesteading For A Living
Add to Favorites By Kenny Coogan “Our original goal was to produce as much of our own food as possible,” Landis Spickerman, 53, of High Bridge, Wisconsin, says. She and her husband Steven, 56, began...
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Springing Through Fall and Winter With Cover Crops
Add to Favorites Reading Time: 3 minutes By Jennifer Maynard — Cover crops are named because of the role they play in preserving soil health. They cover the ground to reduce exposure and the negative...
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Starting Your Own Seeds
Add to Favorites Reading Time: 3 minutes Starting your own seeds saves considerable money over buying plants from a nursery. It also avoids introducing devastating bacteria and fungi to your garden....
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Growing Your Own Spuds
Add to Favorites Reading Time: 4 minutes By Kristi Cook – Potatoes are one of the most versatile root vegetables to grace a garden. There are white potatoes, yellow potatoes, red potatoes, even purple...
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Silvopasture Explained
Add to Favorites Reading Time: 5 minutes By Mel Dickinson – Silvopasture, also known as agroforestry, is a farming method that includes the use of timber, livestock, and forage together in the same...
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How to Take an Accurate Soil Sample
Add to Favorites Reading Time: 5 minutes By Kristi Cook – Do you want your garden to produce the best-tasting food in town? Do you want to maximize production to fill your farmers market stands? Maybe...
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Tips for Growing Sweet Corn
Add to Favorites Reading Time: 5 minutes By Jenny Underwood – When I was a kid, it seemed like everyone in our rural community had tips for growing sweet corn as everyone grew it. I can remember that...
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What is the Best Mulch to Prevent Weeds?
Add to Favorites All Photos By Shelley Dedauw The best mulch to prevent weeds depends on where the mulch lies, what else you need it to do…and, of course, cost. What is the most important factor for a...
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