Farm and Garden
Plants and produce from rural America
The Benefits of Building a High Tunnel
By George DeVault
A simple high tunnel framework covered with plastic defeats inclement extremes and extends the vegetable gardening season.
The Farmer’s Library: 8 Reads for an Expanded Land-Based Worldview
By Keba M. Hitzeman
Farming books serve a number of purposes, from light reading to expanding your worldview. Here are a few of one farmer's favorites for a farm library.
Frost Gardening Tips: How to Protect Your Vegetable Garden from Snow
By Bryan Traficante, Garden In Minutes
You can have a productive growing season even in mild winters. Pick hardy crops, water them correctly, and provide cover to protect your garden from frost damage.
Raising Chickens and Poultry for Home Pest Control
Pam Maynard
Let chickens, guineas, ducks and turkeys gobble up garden and backyard pests for an all-natural, animated insecticide.
Edible Gardening With Chickens
By Niki Jabbour
Try gardening with chickens to increase the productivity of your garden, with free manure and weeding services as well as eggs and meat from your flock.
Chicken Manure Fertilizer for the Vegetable Garden
Sandi White
Laying flock provides magnificent mulch with chicken manure fertilizer for the best garden ever grown by its Georgia Master Gardener owner.
Be Frugal in the Garden with Tips for Pallets, Perennials, Tomato Cages and More
By Lois Hoffman
Saving money is always good and the garden is no exception. Make your dollar go further "in the dirt" with DIY tomato cages, perennials, pallets, and more
The Secrets to Making Fruit Wine at Home
By Chris Colby
Learn what ingredients, equipment and additives you will need to make fruit wine using late-season fruit leftovers.
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