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Time To Transplant? It’s Dibble Time!

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When it comes to planting transplants, nothing beats a dibbler for spacing, managing weeds and determining numbers in your garden plots.

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Produce Profile: Spinach Isn’t Just For Popeye

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Spinach has a reputation as a nutritional powerhouse of "comic" proportions. Give this cool-weather crop a try to pack more into your early spring diet.

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Pantry Stocking & Homesteading With The Graham Family

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Samantha Graham gives tips for stocking a pantry and tells us how her Oregon-based homestead brings a feeling of warmth and wellness to her family.

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Produce Profile: Storage Corn As A Garden & Household Staple

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You can grow flint corn, flour corn and dent corn in your home or community garden to make the cornmeal, grits, polenta and corn flour of your dreams.

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How To Transition To Veterinary Telemedicine

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In times of social distancing, farms needing certain types of veterinary assistance can use telemedicine. Here are five tips for making use of this tool.

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Boston Microgreens Gets Creative With Tiny Greens

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Boston Microgreens founder and co-owner Oliver Homberg tells us how experimenting with microgreens at home led to a business supplying local chefs.

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Control Internal Parasites In Goats With Rotational Grazing

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Internal parasites can cause real problems for goat herds, but rotational grazing techniques can help you keep unwelcome visitors under control.

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Grow Your Own Beans With Help From Plot 37

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Jessie Sheffield from the London-based allotment reveals key cultivating tips for beans and tells us why she's smitten with giant Greek Gigantes.

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Chicken-Keeping In The Time Of Coronavirus

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Concerned about your chicken flock while adapting to coronavirus precautions? These answers to common questions will hopefully ease your anxieties.

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Duck Eggs Are The Best Fresh Eggs

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Thinking about getting chickens for eggs? Maybe consider duck eggs, instead—they are bigger and healthier, with better taste and texture.

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