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Growing Your Own Food

Explore articles that feature flowers, vegetables, and crops from the country. Grow delicious heirloom winter squash, finally get rid of slugs in your garden or avoid the top container gardener mistakes.

 

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How To Use Newspaper As Mulch
Melinda R. Cordell     
Using newspaper as mulch for the vegetable garden is a much cheaper version of buying wood chips or hay from a big-box store. 
Grow Your Own Rabbit Food
Bob Bennett     
Turn your yard into rabbit food and start growing oats, wheat, beets and other tasty rabbit treats. 
How Florida is Growing Food With Innovation
Katie Hixson     
A unique program out of Florida offers more on sustainable agriculture and educational programs to farmers around the world.      

Browse more great rural know-how in the GRIT archives: Garden 

 


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Preserve the Harvest

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GROWING POSSIBILITIES  

by Paul Gardener

Paul and his family live in suburban Utah and over the last few years have started to redefine what “normal” means. They raise chickens, cook and bake from scratch, and grow much of their own food on their ¼ acre lot in the burbs. Now they’re trying to help others see what’s possible by sharing their experiences. Read more about their journey at A posse ad esse.

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