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Vegetable Garden Design Basics

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Design Your Garden for Easy Tending and Good Plant Health

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Agrihood Life: Connect Agriculture to Neighborhoods

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Agrihoods Are a Relatively New & Rising U.S. Trend Connecting Neighbors, Land & Agriculture

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How to Take Care of Ducks in Winter

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Ducks Are Adaptable to All Sorts of Weather, But Need a Bit of Help to Thrive

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Crops & Gardening Farm & Garden Homesteading Permaculture

Invest In Perennial Plants For Future Gardening Success

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Today's Wise Investment is Tomorrow's Effortless Bounty

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Use a Low Tunnel This Spring for Earlier Harvests

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There comes a time when we all just want to start planting in our gardens again, and a low tunnel provides this earlier-is-better option.

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Ecosystem Design Creates Potential, Builds Good Soil

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Ecosystem design, in mimicking characteristics of naturally occurring ecosystems, builds future potential and healthy soil for years of organic food production.

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3 Important Principles For Sustainable Ecosystem Design

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When building a sustainable ecosystem design in your garden or yard, keep these three principles top of mind when choosing what to plant where.

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All About Actinomycetes (Excerpt: “Microbe Science For Gardeners”)

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In this excerpt from "Microbe Science for Gardeners," author Robert Pavlis digs into why soil smells good and if dirt really helps depression.

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Give Trees As Christmas Gifts With These Selections

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Trees can make excellent Christmas gifts, so check out these varieties—both potted and plantable—to consider for the arborists in your life!

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Crops & Gardening Farm & Garden Homesteading Permaculture

With Ecosystem Design, Always Start With Biodiversity

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Good ecosystem design is a matter of applying key principles to our growing spaces, and biodiversity is a critical first step to sustainability in the garden.

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