How-to-Guides
Christmas Cacti Care and Propagation
Christmas cacti are a festive star among houseplants that bring vibrant splashes of color to your home during the holiday season. Easy to care for and propagate find all the instructions you need here.
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How to Grow Fodder Indoors for Chickens
Are you looking for ways to provide your chickens with fresh nutritious food in the winter? This guide will teach you how to grow chicken fodder so you can get started asap. You'll also learn about the different types of fodder available and which to choose for your chickens.
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Prepare Your Garden for Winter By Completing These 8 Chores
Need to get your garden ready for the winter? Follow along with this list of important chores you should complete on your farm before the off-season to ensure a productive and seamless spring.
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How to Determine the Texture of Soil | Textural Determination with the Soil Texture Pyramid
Whether you are planning to open up a new gardening space, or if you want more information about the soil you are already using, a mason jar test and a quick reference to the soil pyramid chart can give you a lot of information about your soil.
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Growing for Food Security with Limited Space
When you have a limited amount of space to work with, it is best to focus on the crops that can have the biggest impact when paired with easy to store pantry staples. Read more about growing food in small spaces!
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Top 8 Best Foods to Grow and Preserve
Preserving the harvest has been a goal of growers and farmers since the advent of agriculture. Whether through drying, root cellars, pickling or fermentation, humans have always sought to increase access to nutritious foods outside of their growing season. Read about ways to preserve food!
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10 Things I Have Learned As A New Gardener
Inspired by the food shortages during the early days of covid, and the memories of his Grandmother’s front yard garden, urban farmer Milan Turner started out on a concrete patio growing in containers and fabric grow bags. Read about some of his earliest lessons he learned since starting a garden.
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Using Silage Tarp for Organic Weed Control and Bed Prepping
Silage tarps are very useful tools for the farm. Read this article to learn how to bed prep with silage tarps and other useful methods of weed control.
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Storage and Preservation of Garden Vegetables
Learn about vegetable storage and preservation with these quick easy steps. Store food from your garden to be able to enjoy through the winter season. Read about why it is important.
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How to Propagate Succulents from Leaves- Beginner's Step-by-Step Guide to Propagating Succulents
Are you interested in propagating succulents? Exchanging cuttings with friends is a great way to create more plants at a low cost. It is a fun and easy activity to do with kids as well. You can make succulents from leaves, cuttings, or the tops of leggy succulents.
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Light Deprivation: How to Implement It and Why You Should
WHAT IS LIGHT DEPRIVATION?
Light deprivation is a growing technique often used to encourage or discourage flowering in plants outside their regular seasonal schedule. Using blackout tarps to simulate the seasons' changing, growers can take advantage of up to three harvests: early summer, late summer, and winter.