Cottonseed meal is widely available as a fertilizer and soil conditioner, but it comes with some problems, according to an article by Alex Owre in The Maine Organic Farmer &Gardener. Cottonseed meal may not be allowed in organic production because cotton is heavily sprayed with pesticides, and it’s hard to know if the meal contains […]
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Anthony Elementary School in Leavenworth, Kansas, was having a lot of discipline problems at lunch time. The school cafeteria was a hotbed of disorder, with students shouting, pushing, spilling milk, and throwing away most of their food. A few lunch aides tried to keep the chaos under control while teachers took a 30-minute lunch break
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Crop rotations will help reduce diseases and avoid the buildup of pests. Before we made our 10-Year Plan for our gardens at Twin Oaks, in central Virginia, our basic scheme was to start the early spring crops in one garden to simplify the tractor cultivations. The whole of the other garden could then be disked
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