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Eco-labels expand claims beyond organic
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Letter from the Editor: Farm to School Success
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Eat your greens
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Detecting organic fraud
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Organic produce is better for you
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Do a crop review in early winter
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Customers donate generously to help flooded farmers
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What you need to know before you add supplemental heat to your high tunnels
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Canine controversy: Market managers discuss their strategies for dealing with dogs
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Letter From the Editor: Weather problems
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Protecting the organic label
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Health insurance on the farm
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Organic poultry brouhaha
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Virginia farmers arrested
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It’s time to plant potato onions
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Tool review: A new kind of weeder/cultivator
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Eliot Coleman’s new project: low tunnels for winter crops
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Despite dire warnings, EPA approves methyl iodide
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Photo calendar keeps you in front of chefs, other buyers
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Simple machine turns leftover flowers into valuable wreaths
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Letters from readers: Minimum wage
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How to plan crop rotations
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Letter from the Editor: Farm to School Obstacles
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A better source of nitrogen
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Taking local to the extreme
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Biodegradable pots
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Organic food from China
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Insulin in lettuce?
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Letters from readers: Individual Fraud
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Got (COLD) water? Trout farming may be an option
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Lettuce, not lawns: Farming in the city
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Exploring the legal and ethical issues of internships
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Are you a good farmer? Take this quiz
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Know your options in case you need to buy flowers
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Contaminated hay ruins crops
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Letter from the Editor: Raising children on the farm
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Salad mix testing improves
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Attracting beneficial insects
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New organic products
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Handle sweet potatoes gently and cure thoroughly for long storage
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Are your internships legal?
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Growing dahlias: ‘These are your money makers’
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Cheese is good for farmers markets
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Letter from the Editor: Flowers on the market
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PVC hoophouse
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Silicon for plants
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High tunnel tours
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Organic fits developing nations
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Antibiotics in manure
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Extend the shelf life of your produce
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How and why to start a farm blog
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It’s time to start fall/winter lettuce
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Innovation & risk management: the yin & yang of farm success
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Farmers markets gain ground
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People need more produce
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Food prices rising
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Shadecloth, row cover help summer crops
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Farmer warns of problem with RC&D Council
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On-farm workshops can be fun even in mid-summer
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New Echinacea varieties ready for cutting
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Maine study finds toxic industrial chemicals in every person tested
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Go green with solar irrigation
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Letter from the Editor: Signs of Change
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High-N fertilizer suspect
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Humane labeling
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Rural areas lack food
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Flower power
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Farm to cafeteria
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States grapple with wine sales at farmers markets
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Heat-loving edamame a good summer crop
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Some like it hot!
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Tissue-cultured plants: Price versus performance
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New farmers market pavilion results when city and growers work together
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Letter from the Editor: Misery loves company
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Letter from the Editor: More on Debt Free Organic
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Higher prices for tomatoes
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IRS takes aim at tax cheating
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Inspired interns
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Tracking organic farms
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Writers seek stories
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A grower’s guide to transplanting veg
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Water plants easy to grow
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SPIN farming — $50k on a half-acre
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Get ready for farmers markets
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At last, a farm bill for the rest of us
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Inmates on farms
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Make your own cooler
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Another boost for local farms
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Not mandatory yet
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Easy, reliable asparagus anchors early markets
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Keep the greens coming: Swiss chard and other summer spinach substitutes
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Flower business can get TOO big
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What’s new for 2007?
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CSA movement continues its growth
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CSA farmers skeptical about debt-relief offer
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Wild Oats Markets purchased
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Comeback for quince
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Farmers sell carbon credits
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Great new resources
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A CSA with star power
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Other Alliums extend season, add to onion profits
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Plan for a really long season of leeks
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Grow amaryllis as a summer cut flower
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Trendy succulents are easy to grow and sell
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Organic vs. local – both win!
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Letters from the Readers
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Produce safety agreement
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How to kill bacteria
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Serving heirloom food
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Corporate organic
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Sponsorship bias
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Upcoming meetings
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How to gather market information
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Get your money’s worth when you attend conferences
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Grow your own sweet potato slips
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Make lisianthus more profitable this year
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Big Ag vs. Small Ag
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What’s ahead for farmers markets?
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Letter from the Editor: The start of a new year
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The most valuable crop
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In the eye of the beholder
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Wildlife habitat endangered
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The best tomato ever
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Organic food service expands
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Whole Foods followup
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How to build hoop-and-plastic cloches that extend the season both spring and fall
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Market Growth
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Branded plants: Worth the extra cost?
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Unusual root crops appearing on upscale restaurant menus
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For seed-starting success, mimic nature's program
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Time to try vermicompost?
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Market growers honored by SARE
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Johnny's Selected Seeds sold to employees
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Recovering from wind
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GMO rice contamination
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More gardeners spending less
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Book review: Forget about fat and eat farm-fresh
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The Abominable Egg White Omelet
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Fragrance of roasting chiles draws customers to farmers markets
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Chile facts
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Sorrel’s urge to reproduce may be its biggest challenge
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Heat reduces crop yields
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Fall is the best time to plant delphiniums
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Tips for saving on drip irrigation
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Organic produce prices...
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...and flower prices
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Even hotter than you thought
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Letter from the Editor: Eat Local
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Uniform food labels imminent
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Book review: Simply in Season
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Letters from the readers: Setting prices
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Letters from the readers: Solar pump article
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Letters from the readers: Watch those homonyms
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Letters from the readers: Storing row cover
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Letters from the readers: National animal ID
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Set your alarm clock if you want to sell squash blossoms
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An American innocent abroad
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New varieties worth a look
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Ancient crop wins new following
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Letter from the Editor: Supporting new farmers markets
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Pesticides banned
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Storing flowers and veggies
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Summer and fall events
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A garlic affair: How the ‘stinking rose’ became a major crop on one farm
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Book review: A market farmer explains it all
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Letters from the readers: Selling too cheaply
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Letters from the readers: Storing row covers
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Shoppers need help making healthy food choices
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How to use low tunnels to extend the season
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Equipment review: Clipper seed cleaner simplifies seed crops
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New web site serves you and your customers
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Letter from the Editor: ASCFG meeting
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Real Dirt to be on PBS
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Powdery mildew control
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Real Food markets open in NYC
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Keep garlic in cooler
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NAIS may harm rare breeds
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Solar-powered pump used for irrigation
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Time to start those fall brassicas!
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Wasps improve sweet corn quality for organic growers
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Cookbook highlights fun & flavor in farming
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Daylength affects rudbeckias, sunflowers
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Succession planting = success
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Take tips in July for strawberries in fall
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Small-scale hydro power
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Who’s doing farm work?
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Standing seeder
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Organic opposition to NAIS
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Organic transplants cost more
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Fertilizer from the barber shop
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Letters from the readers: Kestrel warning
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New biodegradable mulch is cheaper than plastic when removal and disposal costs are also considered
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Time to get your act together
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Organic seed workshops scheduled
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Harvesting techniques can improve efficiency
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Got voles? Get kestrels and barn owls! Predators are your best ally, so make them welcome with nest boxes
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Letter from the Editor: Small farm success
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Money for markets
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No more flower prices
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Design a greenhouse
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New zone map shows warming
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Growers reap benefits from farmer networks
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Peanuts: Grow your own protein
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Peonies still popular for Kansas farm
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What do chefs want?
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Letter from the Editor: National Animal Identification System alarm
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2005 the warmest year yet
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Who owns organic now?
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Is a rose a rose?
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Leaf compost increases yields
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Homemade vacuum seeder
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Contaminated produce
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Hardening off process worth the effort
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Winter squash makes most of harvest and growers’ time
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Greenhouses overwinter NY herbs
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Terrorist chickens resisting animal ID system
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Peach trees bear flowers more readily than fruit
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Machine love: Dehumidifier
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Whole Foods Market and local farms
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Wood-fired boilers
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Letter from the Editor: Food Safety
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The 5% effect
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Pollinators decline
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Wal-Mart and organics
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Coleus as a cut flower?
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An old-fashioned barn raising
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Recommended new veggie varieties
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10 reasons to buy local produce
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New tools unveiled
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Letter from the Editor: Welcome to new readers
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Greenhouse berries
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Attracting beneficials
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Herb news
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Solar-powered side curtains ventilate hoophouse when the farmer can't be there
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Mixed containers are a draw for Mother's Day
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How to succeed with spuds
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The best of what's new
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Success with seeds: Get your season off to a good start with this timely advice
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Letter from the Editor: Variety advice
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Hairy vetch scores
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Organic milk is better
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Amazing watermelons
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Organic resources
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Purple pigments
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Growing and marketing specialty peppers
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Letters from the readers: Asian greens in hoophouse
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Letters from the readers: More than one job
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Intern concerns
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Preventing deer damage: farmers share war stories
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Our favorite flowers - and our most profitable
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Raise your own pest patrol
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Letter from the Editor: An auspicious year
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Writers wanted
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Heirloom seed fun
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Seed saving info
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New resources
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What I never learned as an apprentice
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Don't let voles get established
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Check out these new veggie varieties
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Market gardening - a great summer job
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Sweetpotatoes can be grown almost anywhere in U.S.
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Your most crucial task: Post-harvest handling
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Dealing with greenhouse pests
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Letter from the Editor: Cumulative index
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Neem patent revoked
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Local trumps organic
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Organic catsup better
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Rain causes problems
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Organic orcharding
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Finding best markets
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Fresh shell beans a popular crop: These gourmet treats require an investment, but customers love them
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Letters from the readers: Conference brain death
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Letters from the readers: Vole-controlling dogs
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Risk to wildlife
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International group recognizes non-certified organic growers
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U.S. alternatives to certification gather steam
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In the hoophouse, cut flowers can be triple cropped for maximum revenue
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Buddleia needs special care
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Microgreens: Still a high-value crop?
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Letter from the Editor: New ideas
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Saving American foods
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Alcohol for paperwhites
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Resource, not waste
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Couple supplies New York’s top chefs
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Shipping rather than delivering saves time, money
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Raspberry harvest can be earlier, later
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Variety selection is the key
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Letters from the readers: Hoophouse condensation
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Letters from the readers: Lettuce germination
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High price of doing business this year calls for streamlined production
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Machine love: Walking mower
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A book to treasure: Fields of Plenty
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Start your search for good workers
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Letter from the Editor: Hiring help
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Rave reviews for local food
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$90,000 an acre?
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Pharm crops a threat to farms
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How to get certified
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NY growers share ideas for hiring young people
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Immigrant workers help farms grow
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Quirky film explores failure and survival on farm
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Compost-based potting mixes require different management for transplants
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Soil blocks are an alternative to plastic for transplants
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Relay planting: more crops, less space
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Letters from the readers: Covered markets
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Zinnia, yarrow top the list of new varieties you must grow
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The hoophouse in summer
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Letter from the Editor: Project Good Neighbor
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Plants' self-defense
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Amphibians harmed
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Abundant Life returns
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Junk food out in UK...
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How to conduct variety trials
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CD is a terrific resource for market gardeners
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Choose the right sweet corn varieties for your markets
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Letters from the readers: Misleading headline
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Letters from the readers: More on vole control
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Letters from the readers: Training dogs for the market garden
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Why do I mulch thee? Let me count the ways
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Sell plants so customers can grow their own cut flowers
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Help from above: Solarization for organic weed and disease control
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Letter from the Editor: The World’s Largest Ball of Drip Tape
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GE corn threat
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New repellents
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Cut water lilies
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Organic affinity grows
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More hours to work?
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Stop powdery mildew before it starts
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Book review: The best book on pest control for market garden
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Community college trains students to become farmers in 2-year program
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Spinach is growing in popularity, so market farmers make special efforts to grow it in summer and fall
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Trap crop perimeter deters cucumber beetles
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Letters from the readers: Digital photos solve problems
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Letters from the readers: How to get nonprofit status
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Letters from readers: Plant patents should be respected
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Take a hint from Nature's flower gardens
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Schoolchildren are good for business
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Letter from the Editor: Faulty investigative reporting
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Economic impact
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Roundup danger
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New veggie cookbook
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CSA land trust
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Having a heat wave?
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Kaolin particle film can be used to prevent sunburn on fruits, veggies
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Farmers' market news: Update on insurance
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Ease back and knee strain with strap-on stool
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Okra: not just for Southerners
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Eco-label for flowers introduced
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Oriental lilies look exotic, but are surprisingly easy to grow
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Farming: the perfect retirement job?
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Letter from the Editor: Country dogs
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Free video on food
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Undersowing in fall
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Growing in compost
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Green weddings
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Live poor, die rich? Not exactly
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Safety a concern for older farmers
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Leave nectar plants for monarch migration
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Is agribusiness taking over the organic market niche?
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Book review: Advocating for family organic farms
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Floral preservatives vs. water: Research shows which is best
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Missouri gets low-cost insurance coverage for farmers' markets
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Tuberose the easy way
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Managing risk in an inherently risky business
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Letter from the Editor: Wal-Mart and organics
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Labor crisis
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How we became beekeepers
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Winter travel to farms exposes growers to wealth of ideas
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How to sell shrubs at farmers markets
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Spinach E. coli contamination hits home
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Harmful bacteria on tomato and pepper plants
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Compost tea dangers
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Nightcrawlers collect weed seeds
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Facts about E. coli 0157:H7
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Managing risk in an inherently risky business, part 2
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Know your farmer, know your food
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Cultivate chefs’ passion for seasonal ingredients
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Ornamental sorghums for fall flower sales
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Are supermarkets cheaper than farmers' markets?
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Letter from the Editor: Sales tax
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Plastic mulch results
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Organic produce up
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New insecticides
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Lisianthus pest
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Focus on compost
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Persistence pays off for farmers' market
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Got garlic? Start a garlic festival
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Farm family tries to find balance
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Letters from the Readers: Keep your dogs home
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Letters from the Readers: Starting fall brassicas
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Letters from the Readers: Sunflowers recommended
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Alternative greenhouse fuels
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Price alert!!!
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Letters from the Readers: Feedback on farmers' market prices
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Hurricane response
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Fresh flower challenge
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Strawberry plant source
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Estate tax affects few
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Organic blueberries
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GMO alfalfa released
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A last visit with Booker T. Whatley
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Onion success requires planning and research
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Understanding onions at 38°N
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How we made 4,000 bouquets in five days and lived to tell about it
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Farming and climate change
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Winter greenhouse crops depend on light as much as temperature
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Noted author dies
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Farmer's market grants
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Flower video
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Pesticide costs
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Free guide gives organic answers to pest control
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Letters from the Readers: Fall brassicas
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Book review: Making a living with healing herbs
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Bird flu strategy may affect small farms
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Make your own insulated water trough for chickens
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With free fuel and wood-burning boiler, farmer doesn't fear winter heating costs
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Flowers require a good record keeping system
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Recipe for a great farmers' market
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Letter from the Editor: Signs of hope
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Free seed search
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Farm-built coolers
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Obesity, produce prices
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Market reopens
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On-line ordering handles complicated deliveries for CSAs, groups of farmers
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Thermal blankets in the greenhouse may cut out too much light for winter tomatoes
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Lettuce can be a key crop with the proper attention
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Letters from the Readers: More on bird flu
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Reinventing the farm: from wholesaling to agritourism
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Biodiesel: farm-made fuel
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Letter from the Editor: Problems bring opportunity
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When neem works
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Veggie R&D
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Market bans GMOs
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New resources
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Grow peppers for fall wreaths and swags
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The art of the CSA newsletter
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Can you make money on microgreens?
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H-2A visas can help farmers get reliable workers
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Hoophouse tomatoes can be early, profitable
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The best tomato varieties
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He's back: Avery creates 'eco-label'
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Dutch growers lead the way in growing, selling flowers
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In the market for farmland?
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Letter from the Editor: The American Gardener
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To weed or not to weed
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Roses and apples
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The next big thing?
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Basil: Aromatherapy for capitalism
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When space is tight, market stand must be well-organized
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Do you need organic seed?
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Biodiesel, Part 2: Farmer describes the work involved
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Growers work together to market flowers
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Herb plants generate market sales
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Letters from the Readers: Season contraction
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Letters from the Readers: Winter pest habitat
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Letters from the Readers: Real estate score card
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Letters from Readers: Addiction to combustion
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Big, hungry snails
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On the organic front
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Blueberry mulch
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Some soil deficits can be ameliorated but other soils will just never be good for crops
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Nothing sells like tomatoes, so grow plenty of them!
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Running the farm on straight veggie oil
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Plan now for profitable holiday fairs
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Advice and resources for creating a processing kitchen
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Tricks of the trade for starting flower seed
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How to have happy interns
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Letter from the Editor: New barns
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GE ban challenged
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Flower farms fail
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Illegal bouquets
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Farms raise values
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Scaling down helps farmers find balance
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Profit with potted herbs all season
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Squash - hate it or love it, but grow plenty of it
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New health savings account a good option
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Expansion of wireless communications brings credit cards, food stamps to farmers' markets
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Trip to Ecuador provides ideas for U.S. growers
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Eggs are a good fit
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Tips from readers: Germination blanket
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Free publicity
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Junk food in schools
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Volunteers needed
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Pesticide residues
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Married to the chicken coop? Take a break with an automatic door opener
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Value-added products round out herb sales
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Peppers are hot products for Chile Man
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When frost threatens, know what to expect
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The power of the press release
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Letter from the Editor: Increased spring flower sales
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Hoophouse tomatoes
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Misunderstood potato
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Grow your own
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Universities buy a lot of produce. Here's some advice on how and whether to sell to them
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Vinegar controls weeds in garlic
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Small watermelons are all the rage
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Farmers' markets are important to organic growers and vice versa
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How to make sugar 'pulse' solutions for cut flowers
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The beauty of cover crops
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Letter from the Editor: Lower back pain
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Mechanized salad
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Woodchuck harassment
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Biodegradable pots
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Plant aspirin
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Good for the economy
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Roll down cover crops for no-till veggies
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Finally, a great insect ID book!
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Ready-to-copy recipe cards will help you sell more produce
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Fall is the best time for brassicas
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Breakfast items bring in customers
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Promising perennials, some old, some new
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Time to get ready for winter!
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Letter from the Editor: Winter flowers
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Funding for markets
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Cost of development
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Eat more salsa
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Hydrogen peroxide
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Health insurance
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Save the beetles
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Mesclun can still be profitable
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Letters from readers: Should dogs be allowed at markets?
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Tips from readers: Turn weeds into mulch
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Eat Your Colors! Use disease-fighting properties of produce in your marketing
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Eat Your Colors!
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Keep bouquets upright at windy markets
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Farming in a vacationer's paradise
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Think you want to do weddings? Here's a reality check
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How important is organic certification?
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Tornadoes & GMOs
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Daffodils good for iris
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Ikerd's online book
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Organic pet food
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Australian device for detecting irrigation's effects is coming to U.S.
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Letters from Readers: Dogs at market
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Letters from Readers: Foliar feeding information
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Winter Crops, Part 2: Planting through marketing
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Our summer vacation: A Maine flower farm
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Organic and alternative eco labels
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CSA gone wild
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Prevent damping off
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Potato monitors for fungus gnats
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Spring planting garlic
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Cheap food
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Beans are still a crowd pleaser
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Turn unsold tomatoes into new products
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Flower grower shares display tips for farmers' markets
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Cool-loving sweet peas are great in the winter greenhouse
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Letters from readers: Dogs at market
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International interns enliven farms
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Sprawling cities
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Grasshopper control
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Soap controls mildew
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Small farm insurance
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Apprentice program creates new farmers
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Point system creates a fair way to assign spaces at farmers' markets
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Home delivery provides winter market
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Letters from readers: In defense of Organic
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Stocks a great local cut flower
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Urban agriculture: Growing in the city
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Apples and the brain
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How to prevent winter deer damage
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Asian greens a good choice for high tunnels in winter
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Popular merchandising book is full of ideas for farmers' markets
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What makes long-term CSAs successful?
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Letter from the Editor: Local food popularity
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Food miles and carbon footprint
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Blueberry prospects
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Better night-break lighting
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Book review: Sharing the Harvest
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Leafy greens proposal causes uproar
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Update: Congress and the Farmers Market Nutrition Programs
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Letters from readers: Dogs at market
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Roll up drip tape on shuttles
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New Dianthus cut flowers can be grown year-round
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The organic seed challenge
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Letter from the Editor: Learning from Failures
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Seedless watermelons
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Fusarium in tulip bulbs
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Watershed eco-label
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NOP relaxes rules
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How to test leftover seeds
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Seed priming and pelleting explained
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Should you use peat in the greenhouse?
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Growing transplants for mechanical transplanter
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Hoophouses keep good workers employed
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Build a hot box for germinating seeds
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Letters from readers: Using Chlorine to wash produce
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Green flowers still in style
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Greener pastures ahead
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Prepare for pastured poultry
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Blueberry benefits
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Correction on NOP
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Conserve energy in the greenhouse
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Volunteer greeters, PYO keep CSA distribution running
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CRP may pay for trees and shrubs that will produce income in future
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Why you should learn to speak Spanish
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Letters from Readers: Packing Shed Convenience
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Pastured poultry a good fit
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Dealing with drought
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Organic herbicide
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Chef holds farmers in high esteem
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Get involved with a chef
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Tractors and the farmers who love them
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Please don't call it dirt!
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Hey is for donkeys; try Amigo instead
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Letters from Readers: Organic Seed Requirement
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Fragrant freesias are a great winter crop
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Selling meat at market
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Homeland Security starts with the local farm
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Organic alternative
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Engineering for scent...
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Sentinal plants against terrorism
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Pharm crops lawsuit
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Laws on meat sales vary; here's where to seek advice
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How to know when to expect pests
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Listen for familiar words with similar meanings
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Study shows more antioxidants in organic and unsprayed produce
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Letters from readers: Dogs at market
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Grow your own hay!
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Letter from the Editor: Tulip season
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Organic uprising
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Small town successes
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Public likes small farms
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Gourmet salvias
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Hybrid hazelnuts offer income potential
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Indiana market doubles after moving to new parking pavilions
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Letters from Readers: Diesel Kubota
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Letters from Readers: Organic seeds
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New book provides recipe cards ready to copy for your customers
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Beyond Spanglish: Listen for hybrid words
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Perennials for cut flowers, early and late in season
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Cut flower care web site
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The vinegar brouhaha
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Letter From the Editor: Growing hay
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Ban on hand weeding considered
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Hardiness zones move
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GMOs hurt farmers
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Vinegar corrodes sprayers
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Advise neighbors about pesticide drift
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Be careful with vetch; it is toxic to poultry
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Lessons learned from start-up kitchen
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Beyond Spanglish: Some words aren't in dictionary
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Yarrows great cut flowers for local sales
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How to improve flavor
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Letter from the Editor: Shopping at farmers markets
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Organic, Inc.
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Farmland preserved
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He's back: Dennis Avery
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Help for fire ants
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Farmers' market pavilion anchors downtown area
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Book review: New edition of Specialty Cut Flowers
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Book review: Starting a Nursery
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Super-productive CSA also helps hungry
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Beyond Spanglish: Be specific about where things go
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Meeting the challenge of farmers' market competition
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CSA members on the farm
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Letter from the Editor: Buying cooperatives
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Veggies held hostage
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'Miracle' boosts didn't work
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Forcing peonies
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Clopyralid will be a problem for the foreseeable future
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Behavior improves when school serves good food
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Working with health department pays off
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Gizmos: Drip tape winder
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Beyond Spanglish: the Spanish suffix
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Vegetative propagation for cut flower growers
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A small-market success story
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Letter from the Editor: Optimism
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Food processors must register
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Clopyralid herbicide is widespread
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Not just season extension: Hoophouses saved their season
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Grower saves fall leaves for next year's tomatoes
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Display ideas for selling herbs at market
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Beyond Spanglish: No snickering
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Cut flowers: Zinnia post-harvest revealed
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Keep selling into winter
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Letter from the Editor: Extending the Season
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Pesticide lawsuit
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Chefs like local
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Sweet smell of manure
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Disease suppression
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Organic info on web
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Nebraska growers make use of fall, spring
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How to grow a quick crop of sprouts
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Different words impart nuances of meaning
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Letters from readers: Beware Asclepias
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New market shows what it takes
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Letter from the Editor: Part-time farmer
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Postpone tree planting
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Well-traveled food
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NY nonprofit keeps on cutting edge of sustainable ag
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Flexibility helps farmer change focus
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Don't let the IRS call your farm a hobby
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Hasta mañana and other measures of time
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Establishing fall crops requires extra planning
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Late-season cash flow: grower describes products that make winter markets profitable
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Green onion warning
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Latest vegetable news
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Growing kids in the garden
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Herbs, crafts and prepared foods fill winter markets
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Language skills come in handy when selling to restaurants
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How do you teach quality?
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Frequent-buyer party was the event of the season
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New markets, more markets, and shakeouts
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Protected agriculture proves its worth
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Kids' visit is an exercise in understanding
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Fire your weeds!
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Mobile greenhouse a plus for Canada farm
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Beneficial insects win respect in greenhouse
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Kaolin can have undesirable effects on apples, research shows
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California CSA recounts lessons learned during difficult early years
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When no-till won’t work, try ridge-till
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Seeders make the job easier
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Small-scale Christmas tree grower finds a market
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Beginning Farmer program helps apprentices buy their own farms
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Fruit share adds to CSA’s bottom line
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Tips from a champion gopher trapper
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Couple calls landscape fabric ‘the marriage saver’
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Plasticulture without equipment
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Heirloom tomatoes vary in yield
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Lawyer explains liability issues at farmers’ markets
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Farming solo: Systems for the one-person farm
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Organic law makes its debut
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Growers seek alternative label to USDA Organic
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Resilience and balance should be primary goals on small family farms
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Insurance getting harder to find
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Don’t let canopies endanger your customers
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Farmers market pavilions shelter growers from loss of income
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Small farm defined by USDA
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Lightning safety means knowing where to go in storm
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Which mulch is best?
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U.S. farmers help abroad
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Implements make wheel hoe more versatile
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Sweet corn all summer!
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Vinegar as herbicide
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Video shows sweet corn production
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Farmer creates alternative to National Organic Program
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Updates on National Organic Program
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Watermelon nutrition
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Fishing line, kites will scare birds
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Saving seed makes sense
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Seed saving, Part 2: The tasks detailed
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Seed saving, Part 3: Genetic management
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Market for seed expands
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Hiring a good farmers market manager
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So you want to be a market manager...
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Greenhouse raspberries are a high-value crop
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British company introduces inexpensive high tunnel system
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Are we having fun yet? Reasons to laugh about farming
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Lettuce all summer, despite heat
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Brix: The new label for quality
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USDA takes control of ‘Organic’
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Six ways to legally organize your business
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Moving to a new farm
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Frozen tomatoes keep cash flowing
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Plan the perfect packing shed
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Delivery truck can be a mobile ad
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Wedding flowers: Profitable headache
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New flowers to grow in 2002
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Tips for marketing Celebration flowers
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Alstroemeria and Crocosmia for advanced flower growers
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Dahlias simplified: An expert tells how to grow them
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Flower subscriptions prove profitable
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Plant flowers in July for fall harvest
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Carefree herbs to use as cut flowers
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The problems of imported flowers
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Can you make money on Tulips?
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Hydrangeas are easy cut flowers
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New cut flower varieties for 2003
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Flowers for the elderly
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Start plants in February for earliest sales
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The Flower Farmer revisited
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WalMart goes smaller
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Farmers try to stop GE beets
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WIC allows fresh produce
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New hardy cut flower alstroemeria
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National Animal ID program stirs resistance
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Lay-down weeding cart saves grower's back
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Potatoes to succession plant
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Research seeks ways to reduce produce contamination
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From horse trailer to Flower Wagon
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High tunnels: High yields, high quality
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Letter from the Editor: Green marketing
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Biodegradable pots now available
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Preventing Botrytis
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Future of ethanol crops
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The Color Blue
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Old-fashioned annuals that you can plant now for early summer bloom
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Establish a system for tending to perennial fruits
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Aronia 'Super Berry' could be a super crop
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Don't lower prices - donate your extras
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Federal programs discourage expansion of local food production
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Let the sun shine in
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Tracking bloom times
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New resources for finding seeds, plants
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Kaolin has its limits
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Update on the Sustainable Ag standards
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Letters from Readers: Hoophouses, plant nutrition
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Letters from Readers: Flea and tick products
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Growing with biodegradable mulch
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How and Why we recycle our used plastic
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Stretching prevents injury, pain
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New cut flowers for 2008
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New group formed to fight biotech vegetables
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Letter from the Editor: Alaska
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Food and carbon footprint
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Flowering dates at Thoreau's home
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Just eat your veggies
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Selling to chefs: Chicories
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Garlic scallions, scapes and harvest how-to
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Letters from Readers: Nutrition and adversity
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Letters from Readers: Grain growers unite
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Peonies: Supply, demand and prices
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Farmers Market Coalition organized
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Food safety fears afflict buyers
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Young farmer describes his arrangement with landowner
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Too many tomatoes!
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From 0 to 500 in five years: Wisconsin farmers grew their CSA quickly so that they could farm full time
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Life estate: A model for retirement
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New organic standards: What will they mean to you?
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Churches’ support helps coop thrive
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Bad news for biotech despite FDA
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The small winery: another direct marketing enterprise
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Leafcutter bees can be raised for profit
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Grow great onions - Part One
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Grow great onions - Part Two
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How to deal with pesticide drift
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Interns explain desire to work on farm
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USDA aid helps seniors buy farm produce
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How long have seeds been organic?
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Breed Your Own Vegetable Varieties
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Guest editorial: Land trust model offers security for new farmers
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Strawberries 101: Planting the matted-row system
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Land grant colleges failing organic farmers
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Increase spring revenue by growing lesser-value crops under row cover
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Help employees create own items to sell at your markets
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Coop CSA works for part-time farms
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Letters from the field: Farmers explain how they will avoid the word ‘organic’
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Direct marketing accidents do happen
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Accepting food stamps at market: Good for everyone
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The hoophouse in summer
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Letter from Wild Onion Farm
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Fall flower finale requires June planning
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Restaurants still paying a premium for heirloom tomatoes
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Sweet peppers are a great crop for farmers markets
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Keep your greenhouse cool
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10 ways to fill that cool greenhouse profitably
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Amaranth: from pigweed to politics
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You can conquer field bindweed!
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Don’t let cabbage butterflies alarm you; it’s the caterpillars you should worry about
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Reader shares expertise on flame weeding, trellising
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Here’s where to find supplies for a great display at your farmers’ market
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Web-based organic distributor seeks expansion
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Report finds 29,000 GMO field tests allowed
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Should you make your children work?
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‘Farm community’ kept her coming back
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Five lessons for parents, from a former farm kid
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Hire your children and get tax breaks
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Safety of vermiculite is still in question
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Teachers find time to farm
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Hybrid mulch system works
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Hoophouses prove profitable
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Tensiometers take guesswork out of irrigating
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Certifier calls it quits
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Garlic not easy, but it can be profitable
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Organic apples easier with kaolin clay
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Kaolin use increasing on vegetables, fruits
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The search for organic no-till
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Email list enables winter sales
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Rodale kills Organic Gardening magazine as it attempts to gain a wider audience
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Trials, triumphs of two farmers’ markets
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New York markets hit hard
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Choose row cover carefully to meet needs
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Studies show need for local food
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Plan now to add herb plants to your markets in spring
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‘Commuter farmer’ leads a double life
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Coop sells at farmers’ markets: Members sell at three markets, but have to attend only one
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America’s working Gs
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Weeds: the forgotten good food
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Raising prices in tough times
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Farmers markets find solutions to waste problem
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How to be sure YOUR tomatoes are safe from Salmonella
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Tips for germinating seeds in summer
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Take softwood cuttings now for next year’s sales
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Illegal worker crackdown
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Cogongrass banned
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Metal thieves target greenhouses
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Penalty for fake grant
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Organic’s big benefit
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The best weeds and how to eat them
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Lessons learned at farmers’ markets
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Parkinson’s disease, pesticides linked
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Farmers join fight against hunger
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The diamond hoe: a great gift idea for gardener
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Histories, qualities help sell potatoes
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Beware of herbicide residues in compost
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Broccoli sprouts can’t be patented
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Specialty Cut Flowers: New varieties are worth a try this year
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Poinsettias come back in style as cut flowers
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Plan now for bouquets all summer
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Godetias are easy, once you understand
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Flower farm becomes a destination
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Solarize soil to burn out weeds and diseases
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Flower farm thrives in D.C. market
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Flower variety news
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New crops prove to be big money-makers
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Grower’s tip: New life for old appliances
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Switching to vegetables, we have discoveries
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Second-generation flower farmers adapt to new trends in horticulture
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You have to get out there and plant now if you want flowers next spring!
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Scenes from the California flower industry
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Do flowers pose a liability issue?
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Hold the heat! Winter production may be risky
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Great bouquets require winter planning
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Equipment eases physical pains
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Letter from the Editor: Wal-mart and local food
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Greenwashing success
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The hunt for salmonella
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Oregano-based antimicrobial
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Nitrogen increases pathogen risk
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Basic tools for mechanical cultivation
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The humble kohlrabi: easy to grow and store
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Spice up your summer greenhouse with ginger
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How to choose the best delphinium varieties
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Letters from Readers: Tomato trellising
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Free speech at the farmers market
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How to get beds ready for planting
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Letter from the Editor: Getting to local sustainability
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More food to fuel
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The power of a seed
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New organic herbicide
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DeVault takes Seed Savers job
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Interview with Mary Jane Butters
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Growing in a geodesic dome greenhouse
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Three post-harvest problems in zinnias
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Prices jump for seed and supplies
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A better sidewall for high tunnels?
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Letter from the Editor: Economic Downturn
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The dark side of earthworms
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Money for organic certification
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Peat moss shortage looms
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Farming is prestigious
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More home cooking
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Farmers markets increase again
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How to have veggies year-round
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Our dear deer fence: worth the price
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Spreadsheet system improves record keeping
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Sustainable ag standard attacked
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Zinnia 'Meltdown" solved
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Callicarpa bears purple berries in fall
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Turn customers into food activists
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Cultipacker: good tool for cover crops
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The basic of easements and the federal tax incentive
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Letter from the Editor: New Farm Bill programs
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Turkey, beef taste tests
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Controlled environment farming expands
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Is composting an agricultural business?
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Amish population growing
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IPM programs on the chopping block
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Root cellars provide long potato storage
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Farming in Paradise: British Virgin Islands
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Conservation benefits local farms
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Specialty tulips: Worth the extra cost?
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Keep farmers markets safe
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Dealing with the economic downturn
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How to sell turnips
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Seeking young farmers
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Onion thrips solution
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Pests on the march
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Organic pecan success
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Long Island farmers credit CSA for success
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Italian potato digger does the job
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Elderberries are a promising new crop
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Finally, a guide to growing woody plants for cutting
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How to build an underground root cellar
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Top trends in market farming
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Bottom heat in the greenhouse
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How to schedule transplants
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Rooftop gardening is looking up
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Should markets tell growers how much to charge?
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Upside-down fire will burn for hours
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A movable high tunnel
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New cut flower varieties for 2009
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Plan now for a great market presentation
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Showcase your wares in wood
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AGR-Lite insurance program
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Market-style CSA distribution
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Why organic farmers quit
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Growth of urban farms is a return to historical roots
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How to choose organic pest controls
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Blue flowers from the Campanula family
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Letter from the Editor: What can Washington do for you?
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An introduction to growing seed for yourself or for sale
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The secret to perfect leeks
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Urban farming: Looking for land
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Tips for buying the best mechanical transplanter
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Plant extra seeds now and sell cut flower plants next month
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The need for seed: Growth of organics creates big demand; Could growing seed be in your future?
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Quick hoops help extend the season
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Produce implicated unfairly in CSPI study
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What to expect when the markets open
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Southern peas, lima beans for fresh and dried use
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Book review: The Winter Harvest Handbook makes an important contribution to farm viability
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Tools that make direct seeding easier
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How to raise bees — and why
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Basil is great in bouquets — if you choose the right varieties
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Watch for these obstacles in starting an urban farm
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Mix it up with colorful cherry tomatoes
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Dibblers make planting easier, neater
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Make zinnias one of your most profitable crops
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Zinnia seed skyrockets
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Pepper primer: Everything you need to know to succeed with sweet peppers
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Don’t let the rain get you down!
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Make a connection with chefs, caterers
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Blogs, Twitter, Facebook New marketing tools and how to use them
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Overhead irrigation that is easy to move
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Refugees boost local farm movement
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New program recommends crops to grow for the cuisines of immigrant groups
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The dark side of taking credit cards online
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Try a quick crop of Asian greens
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The freshest sweet corn at market
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Flowers lost to seed industry changes
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FDA 'guidances' issued
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The late blight scourge
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Online markets on the rise
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Tips to help you avoid market fatigue
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Time for fall and winter spinach
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Cut Flowers and a Quick Turnaround
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Book review: A guide to organic bees
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Save time, back strain with a pallet fork
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Storage chart, custom cookbooks will answer customer questions
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Earn money from your beehives
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Graft tomatoes, especially heirlooms, for greater yield and disease resistance
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How to graft tomatoes
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Book Review: Small Scale Grain Raising
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Get help from cover crops this winter
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Winter Cover Crop Chart
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Pesticides of essential oils sound great, but do they work?
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Growing grains for local markets
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Flower growers report decent sales, but some big changes in markets
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Farm-built bins and racks help harvest
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New! Basil downy mildew hits U.S. crops
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Converting lawns for willing homeowners, market farmers find land in urban yards
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Food Safety: Let's work on this together!
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Rhubarb and asparagus
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Threshing beans and grains
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New tool makes strong hoops for overwintering crops
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Sea holly and its many cousins
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Book review Words of wisdom about making a farm profitable
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Ideas from Japan
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Farm for profit, not production
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NRCS program to help with hoophouses
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Get ready for GAPs
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Build your own walk-in cooler
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Make the most of your seed investment: How to store, inventory and order seeds
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How one customer revolutionized our CSA
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Build your own drip tape winder
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Readers reveal profitable flowers: Low maintenance is an important factor for these unique cuts
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More information on hoophouses
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Urban farms start to meet with resistance
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Steps for successful planning
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Advice for winter down time: go to school and learn a skill
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Take dahlia cuttings now for hoophouse planting
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Water greenhouse plants automatically
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Hoophouse update: most profitable uses
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High tunnel innovations
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Managing hoophouse soils, weeds, pests, disease
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Urban farming fears: disease, noise, commerce
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Mapping crops on a spreadsheet
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Free crop planning software
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Celery and celeriac: seeding is the hardest part
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Don’t heat the whole greenhouse
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A daughter reflects on her family farm’s lessons
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A quest for long-stemmed sweet peas
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